PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 13, 10 October 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. 1(. B. .Morris, Chief Inspector of tho General Post Oflice,' who lias been rather seriously ill, is .now on the -high road, to complete recovery, ami expects to resume duly in the course of. a fendays.

Tho Wellington Conciliation Commissioner (Mr. \V. I[. Hagger) will leavo for Nelson shortly on industrial business.

Captain Arthur Coningham, Royal Flying Corps, referred to in the New Zealand High Commissioner's cable wessago yesterday morning as having been awarded the D.S.O. and Military Cross, is tho eldest sou of Mrs. Stanford, of Wellington. He is 22 years of age, and was educated at the Terrace School and Wellington College, being champion shot at tho latter in 1911. Iu August, IS'M, ho left with the Samoan Force, ;:nd, returning eight months Inter, he joined tho Fourth Reinforcements. After being invalided from Egypt ho obtained his discharge, and proceeded to England, whera he was given a commission in tho Ii.F.C.

The, Rev. 0. M. and Mrs. Stent, who lire leaving Opitnake for Eastbourne, 1 Wellington, to which parish Mr. Stent has befon transferred, were farewelled at a public social. There was a large attendance of parishioners and the general public.

Lieutenant F. A. Aircy, who has died from iVounds, was tho sixth son of tho late Mr. W. 11. Airey, Inspector ot Schools, Auckland. Ho was educated at tho Auckland Grammar School and at tho Auckland University College, whero he gained his M.A. with .nrst-class honours in English and French. In 1915 ho was selected as the Auckland candidate for tho Rhodes Scholarship, but failed to'obtain that distinction. Ho was a master on the stall' of the Auckland Grammar School jintil his appointment to a commission in the Twenty-second Reinforcements. Hs tvas for a number of. years a mainstay of tho university senior cricket team.

A slight mistake was made in tho spelling of the hame of a Wellington soldier whoso name appeared in the list of battle honours published yesterday. The correct naiiie is Second Lieutenant Oscar Eugene Gallie, of tho Royal Field Artillery, who has been awanled tho Military Cross. It is notable that c-nly some two months ago this officer's brother, Lieutenant Victor James Gallie, also of the R.F.A., received a similar honour on. the field of action. Both of tho recipients are the sons of .Mr. John Gallic, of 17 Stoke Street, Newtown, and byth were among the flißt to volunteer for service when war broke out, and went to Samoa, with the First Expeditionary Force in 1911 They returned to Wellington in February, 1915, and went to England, where they qualified for commissions in the Royal Field Artillery.' liiHiCUinnt Victor Gallie 'vai on the staff of the Union Bank in Wellington. and was formerly a sergeant ill; the 15 JSattery. Lieutenant Oscar Gallie was on the Masterton stall' ol Dalgety and Co.. and was very well known throughout tho Wairarapa. , - The Cricket Association lust evening decided to place ou record the services, as <i committeeman and a player, rendered by Mr. F. A. Midlane, who has removed to Auckland.-

Mr. Allan Johnston died at his residence, "Bangor," North-East .Harbour, Dunedin, on Friday, aged 62 years. Ten years ago he was one of the leading contractors in Otago. and handled some very big works. He was born in Bangor, North 'Ireland, and came 'out to Otago shortly after attaining his majority, some forty yeam ago. For a time ho accepfed ploughing contracts rightthrough the province; later carrying on a large team contracting business in Dunedin,. from which he retired about, eight years ago. In earlier days he belonged to tho Otago Hussars, and was known as a keen sporting enthusiast.- For eight years he was a member of the Portobello Road Board. Some six years ago he was badly kicked by a horse, and though full recovery was appareut, he never regained his old vigour.

Rev. Father J. Minogue. now at Featlierston Camp, proceeds to tlio front in the near future.

Mr. Walter Paterson, whose long, busy, and useful life was governed by a zealous missionary spirit, died in Dunedin on Friday, at the residence of his eon Adam, aged '90 years. Mr. Paterson was the eldest son of tho Rev. Dr. Nathaniel Paterson, of Free St. Andrew's, Glasgow, and the great-grandson of the gentleman from whom Sir Walter Scott fashioned his 6plendid character Old Mortality. As a youth Mr. Paterson was trained in tho Exchequer Bank, Glasgow, but upon attaining his majority the first stirrings of the missionary spirit that actuated his whole'life sent" him to Ireland at the time of the potato famine. He came to New Zealand in 186S,.and took charge of the school at Hokitika, under the Provincial Government, and in 1870 he took a position in the Otago Boys' High School. Later, poor health compelled him to abandon that profession, and for many years he devoted his time to the education of the Chinesfe in Dunedin. Ten years ago. in his eightieth year, he determined to go ..to China to undertake missionary work on a bigger scale,_ but ill-health caused him to break the journey at Sydnev, and lie never got further. In Sydnev, Eowevev, ho found a great body'of Chinese untouched by any religions organisation, and ho threw himself into tho work of their regeneration with cliaraoteristic zeal. And then, unfortunately. he met with an accident in a tram collision, which so weakened him that he had to return to Dunedin two yeai-s ago, since wljich date ho had lived with his son. The old gentleman retained liis faculties to the last, and died surrounded bv his whole family,,which consists of Mr. Nathaniel Paterson (of N. and E S. Paterson). Mr. Adam Paterson (Paterson and Barr), Mr; Walter Paterson (well known in insurance circles), Mr. "E. S. Paterson (N. and E. S. Paterson), and Mi's. Laing, of Invercargill. Two well-known Manawatu journalists (Messrs. H. G. Kerslako and 11. H. Billens), wbo severed their long connection ■with tho Pnlmerston North "Standard" recently, last week took over the ownership and control of tho Horowhonua "Chronicle." '