PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3096, 29 May 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. W. D. 'S. Mac Donald will nrobaWv go to Marfon to-day to address u meeting of fanners there on tho wheat (jiiestion. - Word lia=i been received that Colonel C 1C R. Mackesy will return to aev Zealand for a lw wcebs ' "f 1 ,'! 35 ', a about the end of June. Colonel Mackesy went away with the llain Body, and has been uu active <ervice without :i rest ever since.

Cnl>!e a<kice has been received intiniatiii" that Lieut. .4, J3. Sievwright, son of Mr .1 D. Sie\Tv-right, has been promoted in the field to the rank of captain. Canlain Sievwright was educated .at the Terrace School, at Wellington College, where lie matriculated, and (graduated an LL.B. at Victoria College, being admitted a barrister and solicitor ■in March, 1933. He represented Ins college for five rears in succession at the lntervniversity tournaments, became cliampiop walker of New Zealand, and won_with Mr. G. G. CI. Watson, LL.B., tho Joynl Scroll for V.C. in 1013. Captain Sievwright went away as a subaltern m ( the Seventh Contingent. . ■ • Official intimation, was received. yosterdav by Mr*. ( L. Pope, ot 29 ]\airn Street, that her third son, .Corporal Arthur Pope, of the NX Divisional Signal Company, died on May 20, m the 13th General ll ospital, Boulogne from wounds received in action in i ranee. Cornoral Pope left-New. Zealand witli theTlain Body, arid served throngh Gallipoli. He was 23 years J* two elder brothers, Sergeant 11. Pope, N.Z. TunneiHiiß Company, a«d Corpora ■K Pope, tth Howitzer Battery (Third Reinforcements) are now m l<ranee. Captain Horace White-Parsons, E.N.R.. who was harbourmaster .at. Napier, has reached Melbourne on nis way back to New Zealand from Imperial service. Mr. Svdney h. .Beck, assistant general secretary of the .Auckland Y.M.C.A.,_-w fa? take np a similar position in Wellington shortly. Mr. C. J. Parr, M.P., C.M.0., ot Auckland, will be H».8««t of * 0 "°« r 1 '! 1 t lI {J luncheon given by the New Zealand Club at the r.M.C.A. at 1 o'clock to-day. Sergeant W. J. CuthbcrLso., who has bee., awarded the Military Medal, is a ativo of County Tyrone, Ireland. He was a resident of Auckland for some years, having been engagedi on the comwounded soldier from "No Man s Land. JuTptev'ously he had rendered . njcrt lorious service by going out on to Ao Man-s Land" in charge of a wire-cuttmg rartv Ho subseauently was under Uoatment in the Walton-on-Thamcs HosVit \ 'cablegram was received yesterday, from Major P. L «. West, «- fi USSverv well. . Mr G. Broom, who has filled the position of officer in charge of the Ciisbonio ARiicultural Department, is severing his connection with tho Department alter a number of years' service, and is proceeding to Suva. ! . The death of Hamipiri Tarikari, a noted Maori chief, occurccd at Kakariki yesterday morning. The deceased chiel Viis in 'his 80th year. ■ .

On Thursday last a farewell tea was given by pupils and ex-pupils to Mr. JA. Mason, of the Porirua State School, who is leaving to take up the position at Clyde Quay School vacated by Mi. 1. Tlnviites After a short concert the pup s presented Mr. Mason with a Hirer wristlet watch and match-box, and hornthe School Committee he received a.goldmounted fountain pen. Mr Percv 1\ Notley, one time assistant citv valuer at Auckland, and later a member of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, who was reported missing, is now officially posted as a prisoner of war in Germany, says the "Herald Mr. Notley is well known in Auckland, as lie had been in the City Councils employ for about U years, the last five us assistant city valuer, prior to his enlisting as a soldier. His wife and family ieside at Epsom',

A cablegram has been received by Mr. H M Smeetoh, of Auckland, stating (hat his son. Captain W. J. Smeeton, Eoj-nl Field Artillery, is in hospital suffering from-a slight wound in the thigh Captain Smeeton was in England with ■ hie parents when war broke out on August 1, 19U, and was enrolled as .l trooper in King Edward's Horse on the 10th of Hmt month. Later he was g en a. commission in the Eoyal lTieM Artillctv, and has been on active service ever since. He had his captain's commission when 20 years of .age. Captain Smeeton received his first trainins: in the Auckland Grammar School Cadets.