PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2770, 13 May 1916, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS

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~i^Lf Ho J to ". °f Blenlieim, has receiva n ltm from Defence -headquarunn i? ?*®\)>Qurn© to the effect that his 5° • b fßt.-ila]or St. J. A. ("Bon") Hor•j?lf i° \^ e Horse Regiment, to Australia, invalided. Scr-Keant-iuajo r Horton saw some of the stiffcst fighting on GallipoH Peninsula. . , to hand by;'the. last mail states that Lieut.- Hugh Spencer Treiuewan, who left here Avitlx the Sixth Reinforcements, has been promoted to the rank of captain. Mr. p. .7. Hennessy was unanimously re-elected chairman of the Fox ton Harbour Board at-the annual meeting of that body, held! on Tuesday, on the motion of Messrs. F.. Jenks and J. A. Nash. Jlr. B. Sampler, of the staff of the "emuka branch of the Bank.of' New Zea-: land, where lie has been for the past five years, has, been transferred to the Waimato branch in the- capacity,of cashier. Mr. John M'Kinnoh, telegraph exchange clerk : at the Dannevirke Post and Telegraph; Office, has been, advised of - his transfer to the telegraph learners' school, Wellington. Mr. M'Kinnon, who has'been connected-with the Dannevirke . office for fivo years, loaves for Wellington early next week. Colonel Lewis,' Major Orbell, and Captains Cameron and Eraser were among tno passengers for the 6outh' by the Maori "last evening. . Professor J. Brown left on • Wednesday ' night, for the ■ Gilbert and Ellioe Islands.. . The Ta'nlbo, a small Island-, trader, -leaves Sydney on May'. .18, ...and he,is.to connect- with her; and hopes • 'to: connect with the. larger Island; trader, Germonia, at Apiriama, to the south of 1 tho Gilbert Group. ■Professor, Brown will probably baback ; here- in September. The . Gilberts are.'border islands between Polynesia,arid Melanesia, and the ■ Professor is . 'desirous of studying.,.the effects -and '.- tenets;.- of .race .-.migration '. and,, inters mingling in , their - ethnology, language, land -customs.. It is,.a'i.corner. of .the Pa- . cific .which. he has ijmssed, but -which he has, "not lip till now -personally. investigated.. .'. ; ~. ..'V. .... Mr. George Slanders,..: of.. Camberwell, Victoria,-, has received - a -cable ■ • messnge from tho -Secretary of the 'Imperial War Office,- announcing- the .death-of his son, Lieutenant G. ;B. ; Manders, • R.F.A., on active -service.; -Tho .-message, stated that Lieutenant Manders,. -who'twas about 30 . years of. age, - was well kiio.wn in Victorian journalistic circles.;^.-.. .Caplam A. L. Walker, of the, let Bat- ■ lalion . Xev.- : Zealand Rifle' Brigade, has wen.'-appointed;;.to"."''the. command of -B Company of his battalion';.., Captain - Wal-ker-.was appointed a'captain in'the. Rifl£. Brigade .months' garrison duty .at . Samoa, whither - he. proceeded, with thie advance Expeditionary: Force.'. Ho'is a fcon pi Jtr. H.C. H. Walker, Remuera.