PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2888, 28 September 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

t Tlio Hon. R. M'Nab returned last > night .from Gisbo'rne. i The Bishop of AVellington (Dr. Sprott) • has received news by cable that his I eldest son. (Lieutenant M. W. C. Sprott) was wounded by slieU in France on September 15, and is now in Reading War Hospital. He voluntereed jiiat two years ago, and rei ceived a commission as 2nd lieutenant in tho 9th. iVorfolks. Recently he was niado battalion bombing officer. This is the second time ko has been wounded. The annual meoting of the New Zealand Employers' Federation - decided yesterday to Dominate Mr. IVm. Scott as employers' representative and Mr. Wm. Pryor as employers' deputy iepresentative on the Arbitration Court. Lieut. P. J. Ellis, N.Z.F.A., member of tho accountancy staff of the Wellington Harbour Board, Las been reported as having been awarded the Military Cross for conspicuous bravery. Referenco to tbis'faot by the chairman at the meeting of the Harbour Board last night was received with hearty applause, and it was decided that a letter bo forwarded to his next-of-kin conveying the board's appreciation of Mr. Ellis's gallantry. The chairman stated that the fellow-employees of Mr. Ellis had, on receipt of the nows, telegraphed their congratulations to him. Tho Greater Wellington Town Planning and Municipal Electors' Association passed the following resolution at its last meeting:—"That the sympathy of the association lis expressed with the relatives of the late Mr. Gresley Lukin, and that wo record our regret at "the death of one whose steady advocacy of plans for the beautification of the city have beou for tho benefit of the community." Mr. Bert Roylc, representative for J. C. Williamson, Ltd., in New Zealand, has left on a holiday and business trip to Sydney and Melbourne. Lance-Corporal Roy Halliburton, of tlio Fourteenth Ilciuforcemcnts, droppod overboard from the troopship Maunganui, on Juno 27, a bottle containing the names of the occupants of cabin 117, who, beside himself, included Ptes. F. W. Keeble, F. Kennedy, G. Green, and E. C. Magee. Ho also enclosed a letter to his father, stating that all was well on board, and the men were having a good time. The finder was requested to forward the contents of the bottle to Mr. W. Halliburton,- Wellington. Miss Myra Putt, of Otakeho, Taranaki, picked up the bottle on the Otakeho beaoh on September 18, and has forwarded the letters to their destination. Mr. H. N. Liardet, general manager of the Ocean Accident Company, has two sons at tho front, both of whom wcro wounded on September 16 p. France.

Advice has been received from Aus' | tralia that Mr. Maurice Redwood, serving with the A.1.F., has been killed in action. He was a grand-nephew of Hi? Grace Archbishop Redwood, and a nephew of the Rev. Mother at the Sentoun Convent, This boy.was but 17. years of age, and he saw nearly two years of active service. When he first enlisted ho was rejected on accountof_ his youthful physique, but so determined was he to go to fight that he set to work to improve his physique, and so far succeeded as to get passed by. the examining doctors, and this when he was not yet 16 years of age.

Messrs. Haydon Hill, and Smith, all members of_ the New Plymouth Borough Council, were callers on the Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke) yesterday.

Cable news has been received record-' ing the death of Lieutenant R. n. Dodshon, of Wellington, who left for the front in March last. Lieutenant Dodson, who is a member of a wellknown Blenheim family, was a lawclerk in the employ of Messrs, Young arid Tripe, and had passed' his preliminary examinations'us a solicitor. Ha was one of the first to enlist to go to Samoa, and on his return enlisted for service in Europe. Prior to leaving, Lieutenant Dodson married Miss Mitchell, of Hataitai. The deceased was killed in action.

The following resignations were received at yesterday's meeting of ths Education Board:—Mr. K. MTlonzie, head teacher, Rongokokako; Mr. H. Miller, probationer, Rosenoath; Mr, J. H. Sarguson, head teacher. Ocean Bay.

A Press Association message from' Vancouver 6tateß that tho Australian and New Zealand members of the Empire Parliamentary Association had arrived there, en route for homo. They travelled through Canada.

AkJvice has been received by Mr. T. Wilson, of Wellington, that his son, Liout. T. L. Wilson, has been wounded in France, and has been invalided to England.

Last evening the annual meeting of tho Wellington Cricket Association expressed sympathy with the relatives of cricketers who have fallen in the war. Particular reference was made to tha death of Lient. R. G. Hickmott, the Canterbury and New Zealand represent tative, who was spoken of as one of the most promising cricketers New Zealand has produoed. Mr. Hickmott played his last games in Wellington during his period of training at Trentham, and he was very popular here. It was decided to forward to the Canter--bury Association an expression of synv pathy with it in tho loss of Lieut. Hick-* mott.