PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2529, 2 August 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. James Mackenzie, Undor-Secny tary for Lands, who, in the ordinary course, would have retired from tho service to-da.v, will remain in office until the end of September.

AtPo aeko , nzi ® Gibson, Vicar of All Saints' Church, Sumner, has been appointed chaplain to tho 6th Reinforco. "! en m • J io lla « been Anglican chaplain at Irontliam Camp for tho past (ivo months. -

Mr. F. Dickey, who has becil collector of Customs at Napier since IDI2 retired on superannuation on Saturdav! after 43 years' se.'vico. Prior to h'is departure lie was presented with a handsome case of pipes from the Napier and Port Aimriri staffs.as a token of their esteem. Tho death occurred at tho Kensington Street Private. Hospital oil Saturday morning of Mr. Norman James Reid, youngest son of Mr. Nicholas Reid; of tins City. Mr. Reid was taken to tho hospital on Thursday last suffering from double pneumonia, and it was thought then that there was very little chance of his recovery. Up till a few years ago' Mr. Reid was employed in the tea department of W. and G. Tumbull and to., and was considered a, first-class tea taster and blender, pf lato he had been farming in tho Upper Hutt district. He leaves a- wife, but no children. Mr." Reid was only 33 years of age. , Tho members of Williamson's "Cinderella Company left for Hobart direct by the Mokoia on Saturday. On- tho Occasion of his approaching marnagO' H. Roberts, of the id tfv 8 *i ' I?a i lwa s' s . was presented bj his fellow officers with a handsome silver liqueur stand and salad trnni". l •' M'Villy, assistant geneial manager, made, the presentation. i\lr. .Roberts was also presented by members of tho Railways Rifla ivnnge Club with a.suitable gift. _ On severing his connection with' the brm of Macky, Logan, and Caldwell, after ten years' service, Mr. P. J. Green was the recipient of a silver coffee service and tray from his fellow etnploVces. In making the. presentation Mr. Yo'uii". tho manager, handed Mr. Groen a cheque from tho director of the. firm as a mark of their appreciation of his services during the time lie has been m their employ. It is Mr. Green's intention to enter into busines on his own account.

Mr. Edward Quinlan, of the Wellincton Harbour Board's daff, has received a cablegram from his son, Mr. E. J yuinlan, stating that he has received a commission in tlio Royal Field Artillery. Mr. Quinlan, juii., served in the m lca l ' l "' ar > Prior to leav- ■ £ T^,r" e ! 1 d 'some 'months ago to join Kitchener s Army, was engaged in ogi [culture, Mr. Eoy Quinlan, another IZ'a "i 10 "Ti , \'°" t ndet ] at tl'o Dardanfavourably 1S pro S rGEE uig At the meeting of the Wellington S'lhiii T 1 " 1 ' 1011 held on Sat-' U day, Mi. W. Foster, headmaster of the Pctoiie District High School, was elected president, and Mr. 0. : Barv (Mount Cook School) was re-elected secretary and treasurer. Mr. Mark Smith, representative of the Jirooks Company, has returned to Weilmgton from a visit to the south. Mr. G. C. Head, of the Napier Telegraph Department, who left that town on Saturday on transfer to Wellington, atter 14 years service there, was presented with a handsome shaving outfit by his fellow workers oil the eve of liis departure. Ml-. W. Hutchison, formerly of Christcnurcli, but who has for some time been engaged m journalistic work iji South Africa, has arrived in London to join the Army. Mr. Hutchison went to South Africa during the war with the .Boers. .

•Bv last week's mail from Egypt Mr. i. &ul hver-Cradwick, of Christchurch, received word that liis sew, Leonard Gul-uver-Cradwick, who left as a private in the. Ist Canterbury Infantry with tlia Mam Force, had received a lieutenant's commission, and would probably bo posted to the Indian Army. Ho made good use of his time in the military training school of instruction at Zeitun, and in his examination was awarded 97 per cent, of marks for battalion dfill, 97 per cent, for company drill, and 95 por cent, for section and platoon dull. It was expected that his certificate would be a first-class one, equal to passjng out of Sandhurst. Lieutenant Gulliver-Oradwick is the first to win a commission out of tho Ist Canterbury men. He was born and educated in Bangiora, and received his first military training in tho Bangiora Bifle Volunteers. When ho enlisted for tho front he , was a member of the Bank of New Zealand staff at Christchurch.

There aro still living at Akaroa three of the passengers by> the French emigrant ship Comte de Paris, which arrived in New Zealand in 1940, namely, M, and Madame Etevenneau and M. L'beau, of Duvauchelle. M. Etevenneau, or Wellington, recently visited his parents at Akaroa. >•

Mr. Edgar Jones, of Mount Nessing Estate, Canterbury, and his wife and family, who have been in Englaud for a couple of years, states the London correspondent of the • "Lyttelton Times," are thinking of returning in a few months to New Zealand. During tho winter, which has been spent in Somerset, Sir. Jonos has rendered very signal war service in having induced the War Office, through various commanding officers, to substitute at least a small number of New Zealand horse covers for tho wretched specimens that are in vogue here. So little result had his protests upon the authorities that tho New Zealander had at least £100 worth of horse covers made to his directions, and then presented them to special officer friends, having been greatly distressed at hearing that the horse death roll in some regiments in camp was one horse per night. Ho .is now giving practical liolp to the Blue Cross .League in the same direction., .Sub-lieutenant A. W. St. Clair' Tisdall (8.A., Cambridge), the son of the Bev. Dr. St. Clair Tisdall, who was ordained in the Nelson diocese and was at one time Vicar of Wakefield, was killed in the Dardanelles on .May 9. He took his B.A. degree with double first-class honours, and the Chancellor's gold medal in 1913. He received his commission to the Ii.N.D. oil October 1,1915, and went through tho Antwerp Expedition. Ha had a great talent for language, and both at Antwerp and in the Mediterranean he acted as interpreter. Much sympathy will he felt with Dr. and Mm. Tisdall in their bereavement.—"Nelson Diocesan Magazine."

Mr. Vere Wyke, who was for several years chief reporter of the "Hawke'e Bay Herald," and who joined the literary staff of t-lio "Tribune" 18 months ago, has been appointed Napier manager for the "Tribune." Mr. John Canner, who has for some time been in charge of the commercial department of tho "Tribiiuo," is shortly leaving for tho Old Country- with tho intention of enlisting in Kitchener's Army.

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