PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2727, 23 March 1916, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. W. Eraser goes to Carter* ton to-day, returning to Wellington tomorrow.

Sir James Wilson, chairman 'bf'''the Board of Agriculture, is at present in Wellington. - Mr. J. \V. Salmond,' Solicitor-Gen-eral, who went to Dunedin ; to meet his son, Private Kenneth Salinond, who came hack from Egypt by the Tahiti, returned! lo Wellington on Tuesday. Private Salmond was a medical titudeut when he left for the front as a stretcherbearer. He. has resumed his studies, at the Otago University.. Lieut. J. St. J. Hindmarsh, H.F.A., son of Mr. J. Hindmarsh, of Nopier, and nephew of Mr. A, H. Hindmarsh, M.P., has now been promoted to the full rank of first lieutenant,' and has

been appointed A.D..C. to. BrigadierGeneral Evans. Lieut.' Hindmarsli has been on the French front since Noveniv •her. .'...-.,

Chaplain-Captain M'Menamin, of Petone, who was invalided l from Gallipoli some timo ago, has reported at Trentham for further duty.

. Yesterday tho War Relief Association' appointed Mr. L. 0. H. Tripp to act aa its chairman during the absence front the City, of the chairman, Mr. W.Fer* guson. • , ; ■'•.

' Mr.-W. E. Moore, solicitor, of Auckland, has enlisted in the Royal Horsa Artillery, and was, at the beginning of February, at the Royal Horse Artillery's training camp at St. John's Wooa barracks, London.

Pte. Fred. George Smith, of the 12tK .Reinforcements,: died at "his 'parents'residence'in Christchurchon Friday afternoon, after an operation for appendicitis. Deceased came of a fighting family.'. His father, Mr. G. C. Smith, locomotive foreman in the Railway. Department, Christchurch, is a son of a captain in tho Royal Navy, and with his and Mrs. Smith's relatives they, have some twenty to thirty representatives on active service in,tho two services. One son is at She-front with the 7th Reinforcements, and it is a pathctia coincidonco that Pte. Frederick Smith, who had honed to join him, was buried on his soldier brother's birthday. Tha funeral was of a military'character.

An old settler of the Wairarapa,. Mr* John Rutherford, of XVairere,* near- Al< fredton, died at Hamilton on Monday, Tlie .deceased was 81 .years, of age..:.

.Mr. James. Gold, for.ten years licensee Of tho Lake Ferry Hotel, in the-'Wai-rarapa, died in the Greytown Hospital last week.

At a meeting of the Masterton Choral Society, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year:—Patron, Mr. H. H. Beetliam; president, Mi\ W. H. Beethain; vice-presidents, Sir ' Walter Buchanan and Messrs; J. TJ'. .Coradine, W.-H. •Crnicksliaiik-," G. B. Henry," W. H. Jackson," W. -M, ■ Kehbell, 0. Prap> noil, and G. R. Svkes, M.P.; committee. Mesdames T. P. Welch, 0. Pragnell, F. Whitton, Miss M. Elliott, and Messrs. Anker, D. Allen, B. G. Jones, and W. Morris.

Our Masterton correspondent reports (that Sir Walter Buchanan, M.L.C., has been appointed hoiiorary'cblbnel of the 17 th Ruahine -Regiment.

Mr. J. L. Cross, of Alfredton, has received an. appointment with Dalgety and Co. in Wanganui, and leaves nest week to begin.Jiis duties.

An old resident of Wellington, Mr. William Watt, died at his residence, 46 Clydo' Quay, after a short illness last evening. Mr. Watt, who was 70 years of ago, is one of the old school of ishipwrights, and was very well known and respected among shipping workers : in. Wellington. He leaves a daughter,and two sons—Lieutenant W. Watt, who is shortly to leave with a Reinforcement, and Mr. C. G. Watt, jeweller, Manners • Street.