PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2555, 1 September 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

■ -■■ ■»: . ; ■- -i The King and Queen have telegraphed i to the Hon. Thomas Mockormo, High 1 Commissioner for New. Zealand (states i .-••it Press Association message) sympathis- i : ing with him because of tho injuries to j his, soiij Lieutenant \ Mackenzie, who ] tirrived in London on Sunday. Ha had lost his eyesight through'*injuries. received in action in ' Gallipoli.; > His Grace Archbishop Redwood has received the following' 1 cablegram from tho: Rev. Fiitlier - Keoghi, - who accom- > paniod Bishop Cleary to Sydnoy:— "Bishop Cleary just.now Safely through ■second operation."/ At tlio request of Mr. Holman, tho Premier of Now South "Wales, tlie Prime Minister. (Right Hon. W. F. Massoy) Las consented to Mr. F. W. Flanagan, ' Valuer-General for New' Zealand, pay- j ' 'ing a visit to Australia to "assist tho ' New South AVales Government in draw- 1 ing' up a Valuation Bill on somewhat J similar lines: to that;.in force in Now ' Zealand. Mr/Flanagan leaves for Syd- ' noyon Thursday. / 1 Mr. Robert Hannah, jun., who went j to Samoa with the first Expeditionary Force, and later left" for England with a view of joining'tlie Imperial Army, j received a- commission intlio* Royal ' Field Artillery three days afttf reaching s London. " • ■ < . j Dr. and Mrs. T. Weir M'Gubbin, of ; .Melbourne, are, at preseht touring New t Zealand. Dr.! M'Cuhbin,. will" proceed T to England as ship 1 s surgeon on R.M.S. j, lonic. ; r j The Hon. J, 6. W. Aitkon, M.L.C., a was re-electcd chairman of tlio "Well- j ington Education Board at yesterday's 1 ' meeting on the motion of Mr.-A. W. i Hogg. In doing'so the mover paid a 'J high tribute too the manner in which T Mr. Aitken had performed v , during tlio past year. Mr.:Aitken re- i, turned thanks for tlie honour paid hini. t At-Monday night's annual meeting of t the Lyall f Bay Surf and ;-LiferSaving t Club, Messrs. J. F. Atkins and R. M. a Russell were elected life' members of ji tlis club. Mr.- : ' Atkins, who has been president Biuco theifclub was formed, was re-elected, to : that position; . Privato_ E. Littlejohn (son' of Mi;.' J. '6. Littlejoliii, Nelson City Engineer), A killed ill action, wa£ educated at Nelson College, and was ill tlio service of B thoV Eastern.'-Extension:- Company at Cable Bay .when l,e volunteered for active servnee. Ho had been -a prominent athlete and had ■ gained- representative . honours on the football field. . 11 Queen Alexandra'has given an audi- t] J?; t>®orgo Roid (Australian b High/ Commissioner), and expressed her ti , admiration of the gallantry of the Ans- <1, 1 traliSms at tho Dardanelles.—Press As- r Eociation. ' ' [ t

Lieutenant A. F. Harding, the Welsh i International footballer, who was lately ■ living ill New Zealand, was-wounded at- • the Dardanelles —Press Association. _ Sergeant Henry Dewar, killed in ao- ! tionat 'tlio--'Dardanelles, was a Vi'ell- • 'known..Now Zealand footballer. ' llu !• made liis namo as a Rugby player id ' Taranaki, which province ho represent-' 1 ed for .some, years. In 1913 lie repre--1 sented tlio , -North Island and' was a • member of tho All Black teanv whicli wured California. The late Sergeant Dowar was also .a boxer of no mean order. Oil the outbrpak ■of war he enlisted and'went to Samoa witli tho . advance party, and, on returning again volunteered'for service,...and left for ' the front with tlio 'Wellington- JUounted Rifles. : ; . News has been received by-Mrs.'H E. Kemptliorne, of the Lower Hiitt, that'her brother, Ist Lieutenant Geoffrey Devcreaux, of tho 3rd (Auckland) Regiment (Countess of R<iufurly's Own), 2nd Reinforeements, has been sent fronir'Malta to 3'}hgland, convaleseerit, 1 -'after ".an attack' of'.fever;-. During last season, the Lyall Bay Surf and. Life-Saving Club found ,it .to fill the position of . treasurer on several occasions. Mr. F. 11. H. Hanson, hoir treasurer, vveut to the Royal Military College, Duntroon, Australia, and Mr. F. \V. Bines filled the vacancy. Later,: however, Mr. Biiies ■was transferred to Auckland, and-Mr. I'. F. Coira then' carried out tho duties of treasurer. Now, l)ir. Coira lias gone .to the front." < , Tlie Rev. Father Bowe, of Dannevirke, formerly: of Carterton, received word recently that one of his brothers '.had been killed in action in Flanders, and-a few 'daj-s later he was informed tliat anothoil of his brothers had died ~ at Home, , - , .'Mr. ; E._ Rowntree, assistant:.-master at. Northland', and late of the Britomart Street School, lias resigned'from; tho service of tlie, Education J3oard.--.He is about to' take up ivith the'Hawke's Bay Education Board.' Mr. R. Howie, assistant at Island Bay, has also resigned. • Trooper A;-'H.- De Castro, who has been reported killed in -action, ; was apple-farming in-;M'otueka wlicii ho en-, listed. He is the eldest son of Mr. W. Do Castro, District Land Registrar at Invercargill, and a nephew of Mr, F. K. Do Castro, chief clerk to the Education Department.,: . . ..' . Private James Ireland, of tho Otago Battalion, . who : was reported killed in -action in Monday's list, was.tho son of' Mrs-. John Ireland, ! of; Oainaru,. and is' connected nvitlr-the well-lcu'own firm of that town.- ■ . ; v Mr,;'A. E; Kerslake. who fo'r the past fourteen"years has been : a member of the Palmerston North, Post Office staff, latterly in the money order department, lias been accepted for active service, in the Engineers (Field .Telegraphßranch); and goes into camp next week. Mr. J. A. Hardie, of the Patent Office Staff, who has left that .office to take up a position in ' the. 'firm -of Messrs. Baldwin and 'Rayward, ' : patent. : agents, -was the recipient of.a : presentation of soino patent works iii token of the good wishes of the l'atcfit Office staff. .. Tlio.'Registrar, in making' the presentation, wished him on behalf of' tlie 1 staff jsvery success in.'his new • sphere.,. , ■ , . ' Military leavo of .absoneo' was grantedto ; the following Wellington District State School , teachers at yesterday's 'meeting' oftlie._Education Board:—. Mossrsi-V. Higgins,-assistant at Carterton; S. Dempsey, assistant' at Clyde ! Quay ; Fosette,. assistant.. ,at Clyde Quay; H. Banks, sole teacher at Kara-' poto;. H. W. .Kerr, pupil teacher 'Mount Cook Boys ; E. O. Thomas, pupil teacher at Lansdowhe,; R.,'W; Edwards, ' assistant at Brooklyn. All-these gentlemen aro 'joining the Expeditionary Force Reinforeements with .the. exception of Mr. Edwards, -who is to do military duty in. New Zealand during the. period ' of the war. ', . By: the Moeraki, two Japanese gentlemen, Messrs. T. Hijuchi (of tlie Impfcrial Japanese Government Tsiikisappu- Stock Farm) and M. Ishikawaymerchant of Kobe) arrived ui AVellington. The former : has come. io INew .Zealand, to purchase stud Corrieddle :aiid Romiiey Marsli sheep for tlio Japanese Government, :ami Mi"- Ishikawa-'islhero on. business connected with the w.ool industry.' The itinerary of the visitors in New' Zealand waS arranged in Sydney." They went south by the Moeraki . last night, and will return to Wellington on September 8, proceeding to Sydney the following day. . They ."ivill thils ■he to travel over the North Island,-whicli is the real liomo of the Romnoy.; ,Mr.. J. IL.-Bruce, of the Dcpprtmoiit of Agriculture, will escort the visitors', through 'their itinerary.