PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3068, 2 May 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Major-General Sir Alfred Eobin, who suffered a collapse on Friday last, was reported to be considerably improved in health yesterday. It is likely that General -Robin will be confined to bed for some little time to come, oiying to his run-down condition. Sir James Allen paid a visit to General Robin yesterday. The Rev. Frederick Stubbs, F-.R.G.5., lias gone to Australia for the winter. He has recently been elected as honorary corresponding member - of tho Royal Geographical Society of Australasia. A similar compliment was paid him by tho English and American Societies a few years ago. News has been received that a young Wellington ouicer, lieutenant Mel. A. AVhito, of the Royal Flying Corps, was killed in action on April 23. Prior to tho war, Lieutenant White was employed in the Post and Telegraph Department ] and was'a' member of the local Post and Telegraph Corps. On enlisting for active service, he was attached to the Headquarters Staff of tho New Zealand Expeditionary Force as superintending clerk in the quarter-master-general's branch, and held the rank, of staif-sergeant. _ He was preeent during the operations in Gallipoli, and participated in the famous evacuation. Shortly after his return to Egypt he was promoted warrant officer, and later accompanied the admin- , istrative staff of tho N.Z.E.F. to England, where he was specially selected for a commission in the Flying Corps.Ho was a young man who enjoyed the confidence of his superiors and the regard of his comrades and friends, all of whom will greatly regret his loss.

Father Carran, of Ponsonby, is leaving Auckland for Australia shortly for health reasons. . Captain H. L. Spratt, military lepresentativo before the Second Canterbury Military Service -Board, has been appointed military representative before the Wellington City Military Service Board, in place of Captain BalSwin, who becomes assistant director of recruiting. Major K. M. Gresson will take Captain Spratt's place in Canterbury. A service in memory of the late Canon E. A. Stuart was held at St. Mary's Catbedral, Auckland, on Sunday morning. . A tribute to his work was paid by Archdeacon Mac Murray. The Dead March in "Saul" was played by Professor W. E: Thomas, and the service i concluded with the hymn, "For All the Saints." ...

Major F. A. "Wood, M.C., N.Z.S.C., who was adjutant of the Auckland Mounted Rifles in the Main Body of the Expeditionary Force, has lately undergone two further operations in Dunedin for the removal of pieces of cloth and metal from his right arm, and is convalescent after three weeks in/hospftal. Major Wood is now on the Dunedin district staff. .. The death occurred, at Auckland on Monday night of Mr. Henry: Andrew Gordon, A.M.1.0.E., F.G.S:, formerly inspecting Engineer of Mines for New Zealand, and one time a resident of Wellington. The late Mr. Gordon was Born in .Aberdeenshire, Scotland, m 1831, and qualified as an engineer afc Greenock. ; In 1851 he went to India, whero he engaged in professional work, and three years later went to Victoria, and took up mining. In 1861 he came to New Zealand, and until 1860 was in business on the Otago goldfields as a general storekeeper. When . the West Coast "rush" was at its height, he accepted an appointment as engineer and mine manager, and for six years acted for minTng companies m that capacity. In 1874 lie became Inspector of Mines under the Public Works Department in Wcstlana, the : following year he was appointed assistant engineer for the district, and about IbW was transferred to the Mines Department in Wellington as Inspecting Engineer. .He retired from the service about-twenty years ago, and since then has resided "in Auckland. One of his. daughters is the wife of Mr. \\. J. Bridson, manager in Wellington for Messrs. Briscoe an 3 Co. The death occurred at "Glenleieh," Hataitai, yesterday morning, of Mrs. Gill, wue of Mr. AVilliam Gill, for many year manager at Wellington for the Alliance Assurance Company. Mrs, Gffl was horn in IS-E, st Witham Hail, Eaglesoliffe, Durham, and landed m Auckland with her husband and family in 1887, removing .to Wellington in 1891. She is survived by her husband and' a family of live daughters and four sons, also fifteen grandchildren.

Reference was made by the chairman (Mr; W. H. P. Barber), at the »n----mial meeting of the shareholders of the Wellington Deposit, Mortgage, and Building Association, Ltd., last evening, to the death of Mr. Charles Palliser, who was one , of tho promoters of the Association, and who was a mom-' ber of the Board of Directors since the inception of the company: Ho also referred to the death of Mr. R.T. Bodham, who had been an auditor of the company from the commencement and a shareholder for many years.