PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 288, 24 August 1918, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Sir AVilliam Eraser will return from tho south this morning-.

Dr. A. W. T. O'Sulliyan, District Health Officer for Otago and .Southland, lias been transferred to Auckland. He will be succeeded in tho south by Dr. I. E. Faris, an Otago University graduate. Both are returned; soldiers.—Press Association.

The death occurrcd at his residence, Queen's Drive, Lyall Hay, yesterday afternoon of Mr. James William Evans, master painter, of Cuba Street.. The late Mr. Evans was born in Wellington G8 years ago,' his parents, having'arrived in the ship Adelaide in 1810. Mr. Evans had carried on his business since its inception nearly 10 years ago, and during that time won the great respect of all .with whom he came in contact. A ■widow and four sons and live daughters survive him. Two of his sons are on active service, one is a returned soldier, and tho fourth is on a business trip to America. The funeral will 'eave the residence at 1.30 p.m. to-morrow.

Second-Lieutenant L. I). O'Siillivan. who is reported to bo dangerously ill, is a son of Major James O'Sullivan, exDirector of Defeuce Stores. Wellington. Lieatenant O'Sullivan was severely wounded in the abdomen and forearm in the heavy fighting on August IG. • lie was on the staff of the Public Trust Office when he went nil active service, and left for the front in October last with tho Thirty-ninth Eeinforcements.

Lieutenant Albert E. M. Rowland, of the N.Z. Cyclist Corps, who is reported to have been killed in action, was actively engaged in marfy branches of sport in Christchurch. In 1907, at the New Zealand International Exhibition, he won tho ono and three-mile walking contests. He left the same year for the United Kingdom, and was again successful l , in .walking.events a't'the Franco-British Ex l hibition. Lieutenant Rowland, who began his walking career at Dunedin, was keenly interested in motor-boat' racing, and lip to the time of his death held the position of vice-president of the New. Brighton Motor Boating and Sailing Club. A lew years ago he presented a trophy to tho club, to be competed for annually. While at Home lie broko the Scottish walking record, and was second in the English Amateur Championship. Before returning to New Zealand ho spent over twelve months in India. He enlisted in Wellington.with the Twentyfirst Reinforcements, and was recently promoted to tho rank of lieutenant. Prior to his enlistment Rowland was in business as a jeweller and optician. He leaves n wife (daughter of Mr. Alexander Eraser, of Owaka) and one little girl. Mrs. Rowland is a native of Otagu.

Mr. J. Smaill, Roslyn,. has received word that his second soil,' W. A. Smaill, who has been in the Nnvy since the war started, has been promoted to the position of chief euginc-rooni artificer on H.M.S. Albatross, torpedo- destroyer. Ho 'had obtained his chief engineer's certificate before joining the Navy.

Councillor C. B. Norwood and Mr. John O'Shea (City Solicitor), who havo been on n visit/ to the Ilorowhomia district in connection with the milk supply question, have returned to Wellington. Mr. B. L. Salmon, of Messrs. Abbott, Oram and Wellington staff,; a. prominent figuro in Association* football .circles, who went into camp last March, and lias since been ajiiember of the New Zealand l'ield Artillery, Forty-fifth Reinforcements, has been declared unfit tor active seru'ee, and was yesterday discharged from I'eathcrston.

Mr. Sidney Lowe, of Suva, president of v the Viii' branch of the Chinese Nationalist League, is at present on a visit lo Auckland. He is spending a few weeks in Nov; Zealand for the purpose of visiting tin! various branches of t'hc Chinese League. Private H. B. J. Veil, who was killed in action on the Western front on August 8, was a sou of the late J. C. Veil and Mu-s. Veil, of Kensingtou, Dunedin, and a brothei' of Mr. CI. J. J. Veil, of 6 Data Road, Hatailai. After being educated at the Kensington-Public S'chojl ho obtained n scholarship to the. Otiigo Boys' High School, and from (hero served his apprenticeship with Messrs. A. ami T. Burt, Ltd., of Dunedin, Subsequently lio joined the -Railway Department, and resigned about two years ago in order lo enlist in the Tweuly-sixth Reinforcements. He leaves a wife and (wo children, who are at present living at Heme Bay, Auckland.

Mr, Vrcd. W. Doidge (Auckland), who has been serving in the N.Z.E.V. in Flanders and Great Britain, is about to join the new English Department of Information lo luok after the New Zealand branch. When ho joined up with the New Zealand Vorces, Mr. Doidge was chief reporter of the Auckland "Star."

Mr. John Channon, who died in Auckland a few days ago, in his 89th year, was an old identity of (lie Kaipara district. Mr. Channon, who was horn in Devonshire, eaiue to New Zealand in ISi2, as third mate of the ship William Miles. Almost immediately he settled in the Kaipara district, which has been his home over since. |le is survived by two eons, Mr. John T. Channon, of Dannevirke, and Mr. Will Channon, of Heleusville.