PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3172, 24 August 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Messrs. J. W. A. Marchant and G. R. N. Wright, of Wellington, have been appointed members of tho State Fire Insurance Board.

The appointment of Mr. .Tames Johnston to bo an Inspector of the New Zea : land Police Force is gazetted.

It is announced in tho Gazette that the appointment of Mr. Walter Isaac Nathan as Acting-Consul of Sweden at Wellington has been recognised provisionally. Privato Jamos M'Millan (reported killed in action) was twenty-five years of age, and was tho son of Mrs. A. MacMillnn, of Wellington, late of Auckland. He is the last of threo brothers, who have all been killed in action. Ho left with the Third Reinforcements, and took part in tho Gallipoli campaign with his brother (Neil M'Millan), who was killed there. After tho evacuation jio went to France, and was the Pioncere -until "the timo of hisaeath. His last brother (Bob) was killed early in the war. His sister resides at Morrinsvillc.

Yesterday, Mr. G. H. Malis Moir was admitted as a solicitor of tho Supreme Court by His Honour Mr. Justice Hosking, on "tho motion of Mr. A. Dunn. .

Privato Charles Keith Kilgrove Ward (killed in action in France) was an old Nelson College boy. and left Napier with tho Eighth Reinforcements two years ago. At the time of his enlistment ho was on the' clerical staff of the North British and Hawke's Bay Freezing Company, Napier.

Mr. E. G. Komnilz is leaving tho service of the legal firm of Messrs. Pell and Atkinson, Nelson, to go into camp. Mr. Kemnitz, who .gained representative cricket honours in Otago and Southland, has takon a keen and active interest in cricket whilst in Nelson, and he had also prominently identified himself with Itugby football. Advice has been received in Wellington that Private C. 7. Greeks was killed in action in. France on August 6. Deceased, who was 26 years of age, was a prominent Melrose footballer, and represented Wellington. He also captained tho Linwood team in. Christohurch. __ For many years he was in the employ of the Kaiapoi Woollen Company,'both at Wellington and Christchurcli, and when he enlisted was on tho Wellington Harbour Board staff. Private Greeks is the youngest son of Inspector Greeks, of the Town Hall, who has another son at the front