PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 70, 15 December 1917, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

His Excellency the Governor-Gen-eral (the Earl of Liverpool), accompanied by the Countess of Liverpool, arrived in Wellington by tho Maori yesterday morning, and proceeded to Wanganui. Tho Hon. G. W. Russell returned from Christchurch .yesterday. Tho Hon. J. A. Hanan lias returned from his visit to tho South Island. A. Press Association cablegram from Sydney slates that Captain J. T. Lang, of Palmerston North, has been transferred to tho Indian Army. ■• Mr. M. Foley, Clerk of the Court at Masterton, is being transferred to Napier, our special correspondent telegraphs. Ho will be succeeded by Mr. J. Miller, of Duncdin. News has just been received that Private Thomas Picton Bakowell, only son of Mr. Hugh Bakowell, of tho Railway Department, Christchurch, died of wounds in Franco on December 4. Tho deceased, who was formerly engaged as a farmer in the Auckland district, left with- one of tho early reinforcements, and served in Gollipoli, where he was wounded. Upon his recovery ho was transferred to France, and saw much active- service in that country until ho w.u fatally wounded. Private Bakewell was a'nephew of Mr. Harold Beauchnmp, of Wellington, and M>. F. H. Bakewcll, Chief Inspector of Schools (Wellington district), also grandson of the late Doctor'.Bakewell, ;i well-known Auckland practitioner.

Sergeant 0. N. Willis, whoso death from wounds i« reported by private cablegram received from Franco, was a son of the late Mr. A. J. Willis, for many years Secretary to the Cabinet. His mother is at present residing at Wadestown. Sergeant Willis enlisted early in 1915, and was drafted as a corporal in tho Ist Battalion of the New Zealand Eiflo Brigade. Ho was with that force in tho campaign against the Senussi in Egypt, ' and afterwards fought in France, coming unscathed through ■ many battles and raids. He was one of a family of five brothers who ioined up almost at the outbreak of the war, threo of them with the New Zealand "Forces, and two, Major G. Willis and Ifieutenanti K. Willis, .in ij Canadian. Scottish jegiment. The. • eldest of them, Sergeant Frank Willis, left with the Sixth Mounteds, and fought 'oil : Gallipoli, and. in Palestine, where he was wounded. He is now returning to r New Zealand. Sergeant Basil Willis, also of the N.Z.R.8.. was also wounded, but ■returned lo duty, and at latest ad-' vice was to sit.for an Imperial commission. In civilian life Sergeant C. ■N. Willis was a marine engineer in the Union Company's service. Ho signed on with that company after several years fipent in. ocean-going ships, following upon the termination of hie apnrenticeshio in Cable's foundry, Wellington. Sister Idn W ;l lj's._ another ■member of the family, is ■ with a New Zealand stationary hospital in France.