PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2807, 27 June 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Advice has been received in Welling* ton to tie effeot that Captain. Herbert W. (Bert.) Cooper, son of Mr. Justice Cooper, was killed in action in France on Wednesday last. Captain Cooper waa born in Auckland about _ twenty-fiTa years ago, and ho received his education in that city. Later he came to Wellington and entered the service of the Wel-lingtan-Manawatu Railway Company, and very soon became a trained mechanist. He then went to England and qualified as an aviator, foreseeing that aviation would play an important part in a'war with. Germany, which he regarded as inevitable very soon. On his return to New Zealand he managed his father's farm at Raglan, but -ultimately returned to England. _ He received a commission as light lieutenant and later as captain. He was an enthusiast and a hard worker in everything he took up. "He was a grand Mlow—a splendid man—nnd very able, was the eulogy of tho Chief Justice (Su Robert Stout). Lieutenant-Colonel C. H. Turner, offieer in charge of. the internment base at Motuihi Island, Auckland, is a visitor to Wellington.

Mr. R. T. Caldow, railway workshop foreman at Eaiwarra, has been promoted to take charge of the new: railway workshops at Invoroargill, and will take up his new duties about the middle of neft month. Mr. Caldow will be missed m musical oiroles. He has been a member of the committee of the late Royal Choral Society since its inceptionin 1900, and was chairman of the committee from 1907 until tlie date of the amalgamation .with the Wellington Musical Union, and has been chairman of tho amalgamated union since its institution. Besides being associated so directly with tho management, he has been a member of tjie chorus, and is a great enthusiast generally in musical matters. Sergt.,A. L. Maysmor, formerly of the commercial staff of The Domecios, who leaves with the Fifteenth Reinforcements, was presented yesterday afternoon, on behalf of the staff, with a suitable memento of his connection with the paper. The presentation was made by tho manager, Mr. A. Sando. The best wishes wero expressed for the recipient's future career with, the Forces, and the hope was, expressed that he would return safe and sound with personal impressions of Potsdam and Kiel. Major Bond, of the New Zealand Forces, who has been on a trip to Australia, returned to Wellington by tho Moeraki yesterday.

Major P. A. Wood, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, was operated on at tho Auckland hospital, and a bullet, which' was located by tho X-rays apparatus embedded in tbo bono of tboright arm, was extracted.' Major Wood is progressing favourably. Tho staff of Messrs. Harcourt and Co. last evening presented to Mr. Gordon Harcourt, who is going into tho n.c.o.'s training camp at Featherston for tho 18th Reinforcements, with a small token of tho esteem in which he is held by the staff.

The Revs. Mr. Moore, of Duncdin, and Parker, of Christchurch, returned from a tris to Australia by the Moeraki yes* terday.

Mr. Charles Brooke' Taylor, who was for a number of years a resident of Wellington, died in Christchurch last week. The deceased was born near Norwich, England, sixty years ago, and came out to New Zealand with his parents towards the end of 185 D. When ho lived at Oriental Bay he took a great'interest in aquatics, and was a leading member of the' Model Yacht Club. He has left a widow (a daughter of the late -Mr. Archer, Lower Hutt), and a family of four sons and three daughters. Mr. AVm. Hill, resident officer, Roto-. mo, accompanied by Mi's. Hill, is visit, ing Wellington. They are at tho Hotel Windsor, and will remain in Wellington for about a week. •

At last evening's meeting of tho lower Hutt Council the Mayor (Mr. H. Baldwin) presented Fireman Seager witli _ a five-years' service medal, and congratulated the recipient, who had joined the local brigade when a boy.