PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16363, 7 November 1918, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

! Mr A. E. Lawrence, editor ot the j "North Otago Times," Oamaru, was W . Christchurch yesterday <m hl» way the North Island on. a holiday trip- ; Word has been received that Forbes Borne, R.A.M.C., eon of the ; | iate Rev. I>avid Borrie, of Dunedin has ■:§ been awarded the Order of the Bntuo - Empire for his work in Mesopotamia. The state of the health of the Hon- || 0. A. C. Hardy, M.L.C., who is suffer- ; | mg from bronchitis supervening on tnfluenza, is causing 6ome anxiety to W® : | friends. Ho is a patient m a private , nospital in Wellington. u Mr R. G. W. Lye, telegraph engineer, r | Invercargill, has received notice oJ S transfer and promotion to the posit"!™ of telegraph engineer, Dunedin. He wu» be succeedod by Mr A. Scott, of «»• . Wellington engineering 6taff. Sergeant Reginald Stanley Jud«m, • .j cho was reported last week to have won tho Victoria Cross, holds, also, the Distinguished Conduct Medal and tne Alilitary Medal. He is one of the most ; highly decorated members of the New . Zealand Forces. The nearest relative of the Victoria Cross winner is his wife, who resides at Ponsonby. Auckland* Sergeant Judson, V.0., D.C.M., M.w-t is a member of the Auckland Infantry Regiment.