PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3117, 22 June 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Fan. A. 31. Myers will leave for Auckland by the midday mail train today, and will return to Wellington on Tuesday next.

Before the meeting of the Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board commonceel yesterday a vote of sympathy was passed to Sir. J. AV. Miiwan (a member of the board) on the death of his son in action at the front. Tho motion was passed ia silence, the members standing. The board also confirmed the fiction of the acting-secretary in having forwarded a letter of sympathy to Mr. M'Bwan.

Mr. W. H. Deny, district manager for the Australian Mutual Provident Society at Auckland, has been appointed manager of the Tasmanian branch of the society. The branch office is in Hobart, and tho society also has district offices at Launceston, Devonport, and Zeehan. Mr. Derry will leave for Australia shortly-

Mr. ,T. M. Mnir has received cable advice, that his eldest son, Captain Rny M. Muir, Ii.A.M.C, who is laid up with typhoid fever at Dar-es-Salem, East Africa, is progressing favourably. Captain Muir is an ex-student of Wellington College.

Mr. A. G. Burrell, of tho Christchurch branch of the Bank of New South Wales, has been transferred to Carterton.

Mr. W. Hughes, assistant clerk at the Orcymoutli Magistrate's Court, lias received notice of his transfer to Wellington.

Lieutenant Leonard Smith (killoil in action on Juno 7) was Hie eixth sou of Mr. and Mrs. ti. T. Smith, of Palm Grove, Borhumporo, and was 'il yoars of ago. Ho was educated at Wellington Soutli School and ut Wellington College, and afterwards joined the A.M.P. stuff in AYollington. While at college he was a, member of tho shooting team of the College Cadets, and later on ho joined tho D Cattery. Leaving with tho Advance Body for Samoa, ho was away from Now Zealand for nino months, ami on his return ho became a member of a howitzer battery, fifth Reinforcements. Ho saw service at Gallipoli and in Egypt, ami was in tho Btittlo of tho Somnie. By his death Iho Wellington Football Club loses a popular member. Two of his brothers aro at the Ironl.

f'iiblo advice received slalrs that On liner T. V. t'hilipson, formerly of the staff of Messrs. Levin and Co., Ltd., haw boon admitted to ft hospital iu Manchester suffering from bronchitis.

I'ho undermentioned returned n.c.o.'s have been appointed eecond-lieulenants on probation as from Juue 21:—10/1331 Sergeant-Major B. J. Sliearine, 32nd Reinforcements, transferred to 33rd lleinforcenients; 10/112 Sergeant-Major D. Gift'ordMoore, 32nd Reinforcements, transferred to 33rd Reinforcements; 6/3233 SorgeantMajor J. Mitchell, 32nd Reinforcements, transferred to 33rd Reinforcements; Corporal B. L. Joll, N.Z. Engineers Reinforcements, transferred to 33rd Reinforcements.

News has boon received of tho death in action in Franco of Corporal. Alfred Benton, of Wellington, who went away with the Nineteenth Reinforcements. Corporal Benton, who was 24 years of age, was a son of Mrs. T. Benton, of Greytown. Hβ was on the staff of the National Bank in Wellington, and when war broke out he enlisted in the Expeditionary Force that occupied Samoa, and on returning to New Zealand he again enlisted and went away with tho Nineteenth Reinforcements last year. Prior to leaving he was married to Miss Nellie Spicer, daughter of Mr. Alan Spicer, of Willis Street.

Lieutonant Harold Speight, New Zealand Field Artillery, awarded the Military Cross, is the eldest son of the lato Mr. William C. Speight, for many yeare on the commercial staff of the Auckland

"Star." He joined the Bank of New Zealand in Auckland, and after service in the Hamilton and R-aetihi branches was transferred to the head, office in Wellington. He enlisted with, tho Fourth Reinforcements, joining the arttjlery as a gunner. Though offered tho opportunity of joining a lator rcinforcoment as an n.c.0., he' preferred to tako his chance of promotion in. the field. Ho won'his stripes on Gallipoli, and in May of last year, after the New Zealand Division's transfer to France, ho was a.warded a commission. Early last month ho was wounded in the faeo and left eye, and after hospital treatment in Franco was sect to tho Now Zealand Hospital at Walton-on-Thames.