PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2444, 24 April 1915, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS

' The Right Hon. W. P. Massey has accepted. the position of honorary coloucl to the First Regiment of the New Zealand National .Reserve.-'

The' Hon. W. Fraser (Minister of Public Works) left for the King Country last, night.' He" is to be present at the official opening of a bridge at 'i'aringamotu, near Taumarumii. .He will be back in Wellington o nSunday morning. . The Hon. W. H. Herries, Minister of Railways, Mr. Hiley, General Manager, and the Distriot Traffic Manager of lfaihvays, paid an official visit to. the iNorth Otago 'district yesterday. Tho party travelled. over the branch lines receiving deputations en route. To-day they visit the northern part of the district-, proceeding;north in the afternoon, to Timaru;—-Press Association.

Mr. James Mackenzie, Under-Secre-tary for Lands, will retire on superannuation at the end of June.' 1 ' Mr. Mackenzie entered the service of the Otago Provincial Survey Department in 1867, and in 1872 he became an assjs-ant-survcyor in Wellington province. In 1874 he was mad© District Surveyor, and in 1879 Obdef Draughtsman' for the Wellington District. He was' appointed Commissioner,of Crown Lands in Auckland in 11)02, and was afterwards transferred to Wellington in a similar position. Subsequently he was made Surveyor-General,-and when Mr. Btrauchon retired recently from the position of Under-Secretary for Lands, Mr. M'Konzie was selected to replace him..

The death is, announced of Mrs. DawBon, wife of Mr; Joseph Dawson, a member of the. Wellington Land v ßoard, and mother of Mr. J. M. architect, of Wellington. The deceased ladywas a member of the Reese family, of Chnstcburc'h, and; was a 6ister of the late Mr; Alexander Beese, of Pahiatua. Slie Had resided for many , years at Kakariki, in the Forty-Mile Bush, with her family, and was highly osteemed'.for hor good qualities.."

Sergeant ,Roy Messenger, formerly of Masterton, 'who joined the first Expeditionary Force, from Napier, has_ been rccommende/i for a commission in the Imperial Army.

The funeral of the late Mr. Duncan Cameron took plaoe at the Greytowii Cemetery yesterday, afternooift '. A considerable number of friends of the .deceased attended to offer their respects for the last time. The chief mourners were Messrs- J. and A. Cameron and the Misses Cameron (2). ' The- pallbearers were Sir 'Walter'-Buchanan, Dr. Bey, and Messrs. R. Kebbell and Guy Johnston. . Tho Rsv.G. K. Stowell was tho officiating minister.; , "

" Gregor Cherniaviiky, the famous Russian violinist, -in charge ■ of the violin class in: conjunction with _ Professor Auer at the Imperial Russian Conservatoire, Petrograd, was Wounded the other 1 .day. at: the fight at Czernewitch. He is at present fighting with the Russians. ■ He has been sent ,to the Hospital for Artists at Petrograd, established by the philanthropist M. Popow, where he is progressing favourably. Gregor Cherniavsky is the eldest brother of Leo,'. Tan, and Mischel Cherniavsky.

Mr.-M. Priest, who has been associated with the Dunedin branch of the Norwich Union Insurance Office for the past nineteen years, has been appointed Dunedin manager of the Atlas Insurance Company. ' . ■ Dr. Gow, of Christohurch, left Wellington for Sydney by the Ulhnaroa on Thursday night. Air. Leon Cohen, local secretary for the Trinity College of Music, has been advised that this year the examiner for New Zealand will be"Mr. S. MyerßCOugh, Mns. 8., Oxon, F.R.C.O. . This gentleman commenced his. musical career as a chorister at the Manchester Cathedral, where he received his, training from Sir (then Mr.) Frederick Bridge, and subsequently from Dr. Hiles 'and Dr. Steggall. He became a Fellow of tho Royal College of Organists in 1873, and took his Mus. Bao. degree at Oxford in 1881. Mr Myerscough was appointed evening organist and choirmaster at the Manchester CathedraHn 1889. Recent positions held by him have boon profeesor of the' pianoforte and conductor of the orchestra at Loreio Abbey, Rathfarnham,' and Professor of, Musio at HiM. Training College, Drumcondar, Dublin. .. Mr. Charles Gaby, of Wellington, has received a-letter from his father, Mr. Herbert Gaby, formerly secretary _of the Wellington Hospital Board, stating .that he has.' been very poorly through a severe attack of influenza, but at tho latest .-was able to leave his bed. Mr. Gaby now resides at Teignmouth, in Devonshire, England. . ' The death occurred at his' residence in Khyber Pass, Auckland, on Thursday morning, of Dr. N. M. Grant. Dr. Grant had been ill for some tune. .He leaves a wife, but no family. .Mr. George Aston, a pioneer of Ashburton. (father of Mr; John Aston, of Karori Road, Wellington), is dead. He arrived in Lyttelton m 1874 and settled in Ashburton forty-ono years ago. After being employed in railway construction work for ■ some years he went in for farming, retiring from active work eleven years ago. 'i*ne late Mr. Aston took a great interest in church and temperance work, and assisted to establish Methodist services in Ashburton. He leaves .a. wife, four sons, _ three daughters, twenty-two grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.

' News has been received in Wellington that Major Holmes, of this City, who left for Egypt as medical' officer in ■oharge of the Third Reinforcement, has been appointed 6urgeon-in-charge of the base hospital at Cairo.

Dr. H.. J. Rawson (son of Mr. Herbert Rawson, of Wellington), who was on the staff of a British hospital 6hip, has been transferred to No. 2 General Hospital at Havre, where large numbers of wounded soldiers, inoluding numerous Germans, are being treated. '

' Lieutenant Kenneth Sinclair Thomson, who was killed in action on the Persian Gulf on March 3, was born in New Zealand in 1886. He was the eldest son of Mr John Sinclair Thomson, of Geraldine, who has another son in tho North Sea—Lieutenant Colin Sinclair Thomson, R.N., on board H.M.S- Ambusoade—and another (Mr. A.' Sinclair Thomson), who joined the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders' when he arrived in England quite lately.

The Rev. E. Herbert Hobday, actingminister of Wellington Baptist Church, lias received' and accepted a cordial and unanimous invitation to be superintendent minister of the Bendigo District Baptist Churches, Victoria, ,Mr. Hobday will leave New Zealand on Thursday, May 6..

'A return is to . be ifurnished to'tha Wellington Hospital Board showing the number of in-patients under treatment at the Hospital during the year ended March 31, 1915, the amount of maintenance fees for which they were liable, the number paid in full, the number partly paid, tne number unpaid, and the total amount outstanding.

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