PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2972, 9 January 1917, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

1 *—= 3 His Excellency the Governor and tho 3 Coiiutess of Liverpool will return from ! tho south, where they have been in \ residence, by tho Mararoa . this I morning. r The Hon. A. M. Myers, Mnister of i Munitions, returned to Wellington from :• Auckland yosfcerdny afternoon. Tho Hon. G. W. Russell, who has 1 been at Rotorua on Departmental busi- ■ ness, returns to Wellington to-day. The London "Daily Telegraph" 1 states that.Mr. L.'C. M. Amery has hcen appointed assistant secretary to ; the Imperial Defence Committee.—Aus.- : N.Z. Cablo Assn. Mr. Victor Grayson, a former mem- ■ ber of the British House of Commons, who has been in Now Zealand for some • months, has enlisted. Mr. Reginald J. Foss, headmaster of the Carterfon District High School, has received word that his brother, Lieut. J. Beart. !Poss, of the Second (Auckland) Battalion, was killed while leading a bombing party told off to meet a determined counter-attack of the enemy. Lieut. Foss, leaving, with the Main Body, served throughout the Gallipoli campaign with the Wellington Battalion. Ho had seen service in South Africa in 1899-1902, but when war broke out not waiting io nuahfy for a commission, he enlisted in the ranks, subsequently gaining his commission in the field, i> ud being transferred to the Auckland regiment. Mr. Glibbery, secretary of the Royal Naval and Marino Veterans' Association in Auckland; whose offer to return to his former position in the naval service has been accepted, will leave for England shortly, and return to -his former post of acting-chief foreman of signals. Dr. Stephenson and Mr. A. Sawell, of Dunedin, are visiting Wellington, and are staying at Day's Bay. ■ Mrs. Smith, of Palm Grove, Berliamporc, lias received a cablegram from her son, Lieut. Leonard Smith, stating that his brother, Gunner Claude Smith, and himself were quite recovered and were returning to the front. Mr. A. M. Salek, barrister and solicitor, well known in athletic circles, has enlisted and goes into camp shortly. Ho has taken into partnership Mr. 6. G. Turner (late managing solicitor for Mr. G. H. Harper) who will conduct the partnership affairs while his partner is absent at the front. Mr. O. N. Gillospie, of Palmerston North, late Manawatu, representative of tho "Weekly Press and Referee," 'and well known as "Malt Wilson" on tho "Manawatu Times," lias joined the New Zealand Picture Supplies, Ltd., as manager of the publicity department. Captain Bernard Lankahear (son of Mr. W. J. Lankshcar, of Wellington), who Svent away as a lieutenant in tho 7th Reinforcements and was promoted to his present rank while fighting against the Senussi in Egypt, is now on furlough in London. He was wounded during the Battle of Flors. Captain Lindsay M. Inglis, a recent recipient of tho Military Cross, is the only son of Mr. J. H. Inglis, solicitor, Timaru. Captain Inglis commands_ A Company, Ist Battalion, N.Z. Rifle Brigade, and the decoration was conferred on him for distinguished service during the Somme battle. As an , indication of the strenuous part A Company took in that fiehting, it may be mentioned (says the Timaru "Herald") that neither officers nor men wcro out of their clothing for three weeks, during which time the rompany lost in killed and wounded 177 men out of a total strength of 230.