PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2970, 6 January 1917, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Commander Armstrong, R.N.V.R., left for England on Thursday, after icompleting his work in- connection with the enlistment' of .men for the motorboat patrol service. He raised the full number of men authorised by the New Zealand Government.

Lieutenant _N. P. Weir, N.Z.S.C., has reported in Featherston Camp for duty, amh taken-'over the duties of Chief Musketry Instructor, Featherston Camp,' vice Major Neave, transferred to Trentha'ni Camp.' •"' : '" '■

.. Major W. ,G. Wray, who has 'lately 'been; awarded the .Military. Cross, is one who' has'devoted.the.greater,part' of his. life'to military work,, and js/the only spn. of. the..late.Captain '..Wray, who held the commission 6f captain in' the Imperial Army. His military career definitely .commenced.. in 1901, when, he' was "a'.lieutenant > In., itlie Christchurch, .Civil Service Rifles, .and, leaving'.th'em,,lie; joined the Contingent for South Africa, .where, be '.ser.ved through the war»'-receiving the. Trails-• vaal Medal and the Queen's Medal with two clasps. Returning to Christchurch,, he joined tho railway, and in 1904 was transferred to Wellington, where he was a lieutenant in tho Civil Service' Rifles, until "transferred to' West-port,-where he..started a Reserve Corps. -' Ho left New Zealand with'the Sixth Reinforcements', and saw service in Egypt and Gallipoli. Since the Anzacs went to' France Major/ Wray has been almost continually in the trenches with the Otago Infantry, until the Soiumo Rattle, when he Was wounded in the;-right hand, but- in spite- of | this 'he kept- going for 'eighteen hours, until, he was relieved. Major and Mrs. Wray are well known -on tho West Coast and in Wellington, -where the latter resides with her two young sons. .- . '

The death has occurred at the_ New Plymouth Hospital of Mr. William Morshead Symons, of Whaugamomona, at the ago pf 81 years. Mr. Symons ar- . rived with his parents at Wellington on January 22, 1840, in the Catherine Stcuart Forbes. When the rush to the Australian goldfields broke out he left New Zealand, afterwards returning, arid being present at tho Gabriel's Gully rush in subsequently sottled in'Marlborough, leaving there in -1888 for To Roti. In. 1902 ho went to livo at Whaugamomona'. ■ ■ '

Mr. Isaac William. Glenny, an. early colonist, died at Wanganui on Now Year's Day, at the ago of 82 years. Tho deceased was the oldest sou of tho late ■Mr. William Glenny, and grandson of tho'late Sir William Glenny, of Belfast, Ireland. He came to the Dominion in the early 'fifties, and was omployod by tho Provincial Government in bridge building.- In 1875 be joined tho .Railway Department, and was stationmaster'and Collector of Customs , at Patca for some soventeen years. _Ho retired from tho service in 1907, since which date he lived,, in retirement in Wanganui. He has left a widow and a grown-up- family.

Mr. D. A. Aiken, general manager of the Union Steam Shipping Company, is visiting Wellington.

Dr. .Carr, Human Catholic Archbishop' of Melbourne, and Dr. Phelan, Catholic Bishop of Sale; Victoria, arrived in Auckland on Wednesday by tho steamer AVostralia. They are accompanied by the Rev. Father Martin, of Kilimorc, Victoria.

Mr. Cecil Maitlaud, accountant of the Wellington. office of the National Bank of New Zealand, has been appointed manager of the Timaru branch.

Mr. R.-W. Shallcrass, general secretary of the New Zealand Sports Protection League,' lias returned to Wellington after a holiday trip'to Pelorus Sound..

""The" death occurred at Dilnedin on Monday night of Mr. Wallace, father of. Mr. J. R. Wallace, editor of the "Greymouth. Star," and formerly editor of the "Grey River Argus." The lato Mr. Wallace, Who was a native of Perthshire, landed in Diiiicdin iii 1860.

Lieutenant Colonel Marshall, of the Australian Medical Corps, died at Sydney, last week, in his fiftyreighth year. Ho went to '.Gallipoli with the Australian Headquarters Staff, and received wounds;'' from which he never' fully recovered. He had served with (distinction in the'South'Africon'campaign. ' ■ ' "

Some thirty-live years ago, when Colonel Newall, the Commandant • of King George V Hospital, was in command of a company of tho old New Zealand military force known as- the Armed Constabulary, in tlio Taranaki district, he, with his company, made a road in the neighbourhood of Parihaka, to..which the late Hon. John Brice, then Minister of. Defence, gave the name of Newall Road. That name is still borrje by a settlement along the road in question, and the residents evidently have kindly recollections of the colonel, or captain, as ho. was when he made the road. This was pleasingly shown a few days ago, when he received a large Christmas cake from the children of the Newall Road School, as a gift to himself and the inmates of. the hospital, by whom, it ys almost' needless to "state, it was greatly appreciated. ■■