PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 80, 28 December 1917, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS

■ Sir James 'Alien, Minister of DeFence, attended tho Waitahuna show yesterday. : Ho will remain in Otago until after the ond of this. week. Sir Joseph Wand, Minister'of Fitoance, is expected to return to Wellington to-day from Christchurch. The.Hon. W;:H. Herrios, Minister .tof Railways, is at present - confined to his room owing , to a slight illness.

Colonel Robert Logan, Administrator of Samoa, is to return to New Zealand on furlough. During his absence from Apia, Colonel G. W. S. Patterson ■will act as administrator, as he-did on i! previous occasion. Colonel G. J. Smith, of Christchurch, who recently returned from England, will takeover !the command of ■ the Auckland military district until Colonel Patterson's return. The date,of Colonel Logan's departure from Apia has not been definitely fixed. ■•■■ . ■■..■,■ Sergeant George B. R. Taylor, who is reported "died of wounds" in France on December 9, was the eldest, son : of ithe late Mr. W. Taylor, of Mariawatu, and married ten years ago .the youngest daughter of the late Mr. F. Lethbndge, of Makino. He leaves a widow and three children. He was educated at Wanganui College, and for several years has been farming in the_ Waikato., He left New Zealand with the: Twentyeighth 'Reinforcements. A younger brother is fighting in Franco. Included in'the draft of troops who returned from Egypt recently was : Warrant Officer F. Willie, who has been on service in Palestine as squatl- ■ ron sergeant-major in 'the Canterbury ■Mounted Rifles.' Sergeant-Major Willis left New Zealand with the Sixth Romforcements and saw service onGallipoli. Hβ is. a son of .the late Mr. ; A. J. Willis, formerly secretary of the .Cabinet, and of Mrs. .Willis, -of Wades'town. ■'.'■■.■•

Bombardier A. R. Grainger, who has been awarded the Military Medal for. gallantry in action on July 31, left New Zealand with the Eighth Reinforcements, and served continuously until last My, when he was wounded and sent to Walton-on-Thames. Bombardier Grainger is an old boy or, the •Richmond Road and Auckland Grammar Schools. Prior to enlistment be ■was a member of the clerical staff or (fche Northern Steamship Company'. Mr.' W. S. LoVell-Smith, of Smith and Anthony, Ltd. (Christchurcb), has received from the Defence Minister, m"timation that His Majesty King Peter of Serbia has awarded the Medal for Merit and Zeal to; his youngest son, Sapper Colin S. , LoveW-Smith, for men-, torious services rendered with the Salonika' Expeditionary Force (says h the Christchurch "Press.") Sapper 'C. S. Lovell-S'mith left New Zealand with the Second Reinforcements in , December, 1914, land after service in Egypt and Gallipoli was sent to Salonika. ' ; ■ . Mr. R. G. M'Leod, son of Mr. and Mrs. William'M'Leod, of Snail's Bay, Sydney, formerly, a member of the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces, has been appointed to the. staff of the Food Control Board; London. Before severing Ms connection with the Expeditionary 'Forces, Mr. M'Leod had been engaged Fuperintendinf! food production plots at the different New Zealand hospitals and camps. He had undergone several operntions, and was to have been invalided home when he joined the Food' Board. A Press Association- cable message frcinV Adelaide announces the death of jthe Rey. Dr. Jefferis,a prominent Congregational minister; The • late Dr. 'James Jefferis, who'was a notable minister of the Congregational Church, retired several years ago. He was born kt Bristol in 1833, and 'took his B.A. end LL.B: degrees at London TJhivereity. In 1857 he was appointed minis,ter of North Adelaide Congregational Church, a position he held for twenty years. Troni 1877 to 1890' he was minister of Pitt Street Church, Sydney; he then returned to England for three years, after which he resumed duty at his old church in Adelaide tillJ9ol. He Ws one of the earliest advocates of 'Australian federation. , :. ,