PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3052, 13 April 1917, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS

i The Hon. A. L. Herdman, who has been ou a visit' to the liast Coast and Bay of Plenty district, has returned to Wellington. The Hon. G. W. Russell left for 'Auckland Jast night. " . : Major-General Sir lA. W. Robin, G.0.C., and Surgeon-General Hendorson/ Director-General of .Medical Services, visited 'lYentham yesterday, and inspected the camp and its surroundings. • The Judges of the Native Land Court have been ..appointed to districts as follows: Akai-oa and South Island, Judge R._ N. Jones; Waikato-Maniapoto, Judge C. E. MacCormick: Aotea, Judge J. W. Browne; TairawTnti, Judtie M.' Gilfeddor; Tokerau, Judgo A. G. Holland; Waiariki, Judge T. H. Wilson. The appointments take effect as from iWednesday of this week. .. !A Press Association message from Brisbane records the death of Mr. Edgar W. Walker, superintendent: of the New Zealand Insuranco Company for Australia and. Tasmania. The late air. Walker was one of the oldest officers of tho New Zealand Insurance Company. For some years ho was manager for Queensland/and was then .promoted to the position .of superintendent for Australasia. He had been in ill-health for some time before liis death. ' . At the last meeting : of. the Board of Directors,. Mr. C. 51. Luke was elected first vice-president anil. Sir. C S. Falconer second vice-president of tho Wellington y.M.C.A. : . Four Y.M.C.A. workers in Mesopotamia have been mentioned in dis.patches—Mr. L. Dixon, .'a Canadian; Mr. B. A: M'Clair, an American; Mr. T. E. Riddle, a New Zealander; and Mrs. [Webley,-an Englishwoman. :

At the Mount Cook Police Station last evening, Constable ' C. Chestnut, who has been attached' to the Wellington police for, tie past thirty months, was presented .by his. colleagues with a silver wristlet watch as a token of esteem, on the eve of his leaving the service to join tlib Expeditionary. .Force. The presentation was made by .' Constable Quinn. - An old resident of the Auckland district, Mr. Charles Wade, of Whitford, died on Monday last. Mr. Wade was born at West Tamaki in 1844, two years after his parents arrived in New Zealand from Somerset, England, and was one of .-the'first,-if not the .first, child : christened in the old St. John's Collego. 1n,1848 the family moved,to Whitford. t On several occasions during the Maori . war Mr.. Wade was called upon to help defend .-his father's property. Mr. , 'Wade married in 1869, and -is' siirvived by Mrs. Wade, six sons, five daughters, and thirty-one grandchildren. Private 1 advice has been received by Mrs. W. Bloomfield, Gisborne, that her eon, Flight-Commander TT. S. R. has ibeen officially reported . a prisoner of war in Germany. FlightCommander Bloomfield was reported • .-missing, early in. March. Commander ; Bloomfield at one, time resided, in Auckland. When war broke out he was at j v Homo studying architecture; and he enlisted in the• Royal -Flying Corps. fShortly before falling into-the enemy's Miands he was promoted to flight-com-jnander.. ! ■ ' Mr. C. T. Wang, general secretary of the Y.M.C.A. in China, has assumed ioffice as Vice-President of. the National 'Assembly, a post which he filled for -isome time under the late President i . lYuan Shih Kai, after having occupied J other Cabinet positions. 1 J .Sergeant C.' W. H. Ive, formerly on' the staff of the "Southland 'Times," ■who,left with the Main Body of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force and ' was wounded and rendered permanently unfit on Gallipoli Peninsula, is~now 'on the staff of the publication known ; 'as "Chronicles of the N.Z.E.F.," which is edited by 1 Mr. Clutha N. Mackenzie. Tho paper is compiled for the benefit of the boys in the trenches, and is distributed' free to them: ■

Mrs. Verne Hargreayes, of Weston Road, Christchurch, has received advice from London' (says the "Press'') that the name of lier brother, Secoiid(Lieutenant Norman. Cunningham, of the 'Royal* Field Artillery, has appeared in the New Year's Honours List as mentioned in dispatches for distinguished, field service (in tlie battles of Combles and Morval). Lieutenant Cunningham is tho youngest son of the' late Mr. Peter Cunningham, of Merivale. All Mr. Cunningham's sons have enlisted. One has been in Gallipoli, one in Mesopotamia, . and otifc in France. Miss Cunningham is doing war work in England. She has.been for tho,last year a forewoman m Woolwich Arsenal. .

Since the close of ; the last Rugby : season, two members of the Wellington Rugby Union Executive, Messrs. R. B. iMagee and D; Madden, have gone into camp. The union's annual report prefers to them ; as follow:—"Both aro well known, for the .sterling work, on: behalf of their respective clubs, spread 1 oyer many; years, and while , the Empire's. call is uppermost in-the thoughts of all, wo cannot but express regret at the'loss of two members of committee who had already mad© themselves almost invaluable, and we can only hope that in the future we shall welcome them back again." : Mr. John Wright, of St. Clair, well known in building circles-in Dunedin, died suddenly at his residence on Tuesday morning.,, Mr. Wright was Government, valuer from 1897 to 1909, when ho retired from the position and de-voted-himself- to private practice. Among the invalided soldiers who returned to Auckland on Tuesday was Private D. Casey, of tho Auckland Infantry Battalion, who has seen more than usually full measure, of war service. "Leaving New Zealand with the Main Body, Private Casey was wounded in the Gallipoli and returned to Auckland, in September, 1915. Upon his recovery lie left once more for the front, rejoining tho forces in time to- take , part in tho .Sommo advance, where he received the wounds that have brought him back to. New Zealand for the second time.