PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3054, 16 April 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

v Vice Regal.

His Excellency the Governor paid a. visit of inspection to the camp at Narrow Neck, Aiickland, on Thursday. ■On Saturday afternoon he laid the foundation of the Children's apd today he is to lay the foundation stone of the.new Y.M.C.A. building.

The Rev, C. Mortimer Jones, vicar of St. Andrew's Church, Cambridge, has received advice from the Anglican Bishop of Auckland that ho is to be appointed chaplain to the Twenty-fifth Reinforcements.

Dr. C. B. Kossiter, honorary physician to the Auckland Hqspital, has accepted a captaincy in the Medical Corps of the Expeditionary Force, and will leave early, in May for Awapuni camp, prior to bis departure for. the front.

■ Sergeant Mathioson, who has been transferred to Wellington was last week ■presented by members of the Duncdin police force with a handsomely-mounted umbrella, and also ono for Mrs. Mathioson. The presentation was made by Sergeant Thomson, who referred to the high esteem in whioh Sorgeant Mathieson was hold. Constable Finch, who. is transferring to Wanganui from jDunedin, was presented by Constable Lonnon, on bohftlf of mombors of the Dunediu police foroe, with a suit case and a caso df pipes.

Mr. B. M. Wilson, general nißuagmof Tourist Resorts, left for Rotorua by last evening's express, He will visit Waimangn, and whilst away will consult with Guide Warbrick about opening up: another round trip, tho route of which may differ .from the one familiar; to visitors to tho Rotorua c".is-, trict, a change being necessitated by the recent upheaval at Waimangu.

Mr. J-..8. Olarkson will be leaving Now Zealand shortly on a 4 business trip to America, England, - and Franco. While in America he will keep an appointment to meet President Wilson, and while in England he will address arranged meutings of the motor trade und discuss the- question of Imperial trade at the termination of the war.

The dsiith is reported of Mr. Henry D. Adams, who for fourteen years past has been contacted with the cloakroom in the Grand Opera House and tho oldiT theatre in Manners Street.

lire. I. iViiinvo, of Ferguson Street, Ptilmersto:: North, has received advice thur her sou. Private T. A. Miiuro, Ims bow; wounded in France, and has been admitted to tho Brockenhurst Hospital in England. Privato Munro wns u'member of the 16th Reinforcements, and enljsted. from Sisngaweka,

Mr. D. M. Kennedy, of Oamaru, hae been informed by the Minister of Defence that his Jate son, Private A. Kennedy, previously awarded the D.C.M., ban had his bravery recognised by the Tsar, who has conferred the Medal of St. George of tho Third Class.

Mr. G. H. Cory-Wright, of Taima,. Ims received information that his eonj Lieut i'llstou Cory-Wright, has been placed on the New Zealand Headquarters Stall as divisional intelligence officer. Prior to leaving on active service, Lieut. Cory-Wright was lecturer at the Auckland School of Mines. His brother, Flight Sub-Lieut. Cyril W.-Cory-Wright, U.N., in addition to his seaplane duties, has been appointed armament officer on a warship at a naval base.

■ Mr. James William ShiKes, a resident of '10 years , standing in Wellington, died at his roeidojicn in ITankey Street, on Saturday morning, after an illness extending ovor seven week?. Tho cmiso of death was diabetes and a paralytic, stroke. The deceased was born in Leivisham, Kent, 62 j'ears ago, <uid as a. boy served oil H.M.S.. St. Vincent. Leaving tho Navy, ho came out to Now Zealand in tlio ship Adamant, landing in Now Zealand 43 years ago. Hβ then wout to tlio West Coast, and- after spending threo years there ho settled in Wellington.'; For some timo a-ftor his , arrival here lie was employed! in Dixon's aerated water fac.tor'y in Dixon Street. Later on he entered thn employment of the late Mr. George Aldous, whose' hairdressing saloon and tobacconist's shop in Manners Street he.managed He acquired the business from Mr.Aldous, and carried it on for 21 years, when he handed it over to one of his sons (Mr. B-. J. Shakes), for whom he afterwards worked. During the early part of Ills residence in Wellington Mr. Shakes belonged to the D Battery of Artillery, and for many years he was,a member of the Oddfellows' Lodge Aorangi. Hβ has left a widow, a-daughter, and five sons..-. • .

Pte. D. A. Ross, killed in action on April 2, was formerly traveller for David M'Crae, Ltd., and was very popular with the firm and his fellowemuloycee. He was a native of:Forfarj Scotland, and fortunately had an opportunity some three months ago of visiting his widowed mother'in Scotland, He leaves three sisters, Mrs. Robinson (Lower Hutt), Mrs. Kydd (Hamilton North), and one in India, and three brothers. Mr. Ross is the third of the firm's former employees to give lip his life in' the country's cliuse, while another is at the base suffering from wounds.

. Messrs. Robert Arlow and Frank Goldberg have been elected memberi of the Wellington Chamber of .Commerce. • , ; '..■•'•

A resident of.Ross for the past SO years in "the pensou of Mr. Rudolph Hirter died on Tuesday at the age of 91 years (says the "Hokitika Guardian"). The deceased wa3 a native, of Berne, Switzerland; He was one of the earliest arrivals at Ross , , and took a, prominent part in public affairs for a long period of years. Ho was Mayor of Ross for two years,, 1882-83, and also filled positions as member of "the Totara Road Board, Westland County Council, Westland- Education Board, and Ross School Committee, being chairman of tho Sohool Committee for many years. He leaves a family of one daughter (Mrs. G. K. Sinclair, wife of the headmaster at- Hastings School), arid one son, Mr. Emil Hirter, of Wellington.