PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 290, 27 August 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Colonel ■ Vnlinline, Inspector-General of Militaft Hospitals, left for the South Island by tho Maori yesterday.

Lieutenant-Colonel Wylio was a passenger for Lyttelton by the Maori yesterciny.

A Press Association telegram from New Plymouth stains that Captain Eliot King, wn of Mr. Newton King, has been awarded the Distinguißiiea Flying Cross. He already holds the Cr'oix' de Guerre. Captain lung arrives in Wellington this week on n. short furlough.

Servant-Major L. Duflou, who has been awarded the Distinguished Conduct Modal, is an "old boy of ht. Patrick's College, and was for some voars «. member of the stall of the Bank of Now Zealand at "Wellington. He left with the Ninth Reinforcements, and lias been on service in France ever since. His parents now reside in Auckland. Before leaving Wellington for that city some six years ago they and their son were prominent members of tho French Club" here.

Captain W. U. Hawkins, who left New Zealand with tho Fourteenth Reinforcements and returned to the Dominion in March last invalided., is now acting Commandant at Somes Island.

Mr. Bison Bond, headmaster of the Bniiiham School (Nelson), has been appointed to a position on tho teaching staff of the secondary department of tlu> Cambridge High School, and will tako up his duties early in September. Mr. Bond has been in the service of the Nelson Education Board since 1910, and during his four years , stay in Bainham took a keen interest in patriotic affairs.

Flight-Lieutenant T. Dawson, son of Mr. Robert Dawson, of Masterton, who recently descended in Denmark _*and was interned, has cabled to his parents that lie has effected his escape.

At the meeting of the City Council last oveniug the Mayor asked for leave of absence for Councillor George Frost on the score of ill-health.'

Mr. Charles Green, of Pokororo, Nelson, has received word that his son, Sergeant A. G. Green, has received a gunshot wound in the left shoulder, which was fractured. Sergeant Green left as a. private with tho Fourteenth Reinforcements, and was wounded on two occasions. Ho had been admitted to hospital 'in England. Another eon, Lieutenant Leslie Green, was killed m action on October 12, 1917.

The death is recorded at TVaitapu of Mr. John Caiin, one of the pioneer settlers of the Takaka district. The deceased was born in London nearly 80 years ago and came to Now Zealand with his parents in 1851. Three years later lie went to Takaka and had resided there over since. For 22 years he was wharfinger at Waitapu.

Mr. Harry Wells, formerly of the firm of Messrs.- Dalgoty and Co., Ltd., has been appointed stock agent in Masterton for tho Wairarapa Farmers' Cooperative Association, Ltd. There died on Sunday night, at his residence, Queen Street, i'etone, at the age of 63 years, Mr. J. Foster, a councillor of the Petone Borough. The late Mr. Foster was a native of Bradford,, Yorkshire, whence he removed to Hebdcnbridge, where he was employed in the fustian trade, being manager of a large factory for thirty years. He cam© to New Zealand eight years ago and joined the engineering staff of the Petouß Mailwny Workshops, where he was employed up to the time of his death. He was elected a member of tho Petono Borough Council some twenty-two months ago, being one of the members nominated by the Labour Representation Committee. Last evening tho Borough Council passed a resolution of condolence with , the relatives of their deceased colleague.

Corporal D.. J. Alabaster, son of Mr. D. Alabaster, bailiff at the Wellington Magistrate's Court, has been advised that he has been awarded the Meritorious Service Medal. Corporal Alabaster left New Zealand with tho Eighth Reinforcements, and after serving for a time in Egypt went to Franco with tho (irst detachment of New Zcalaiiders. He was on continuous sorvico until April 18 last, when ho received shrapnel wounds in both feet, and returned to New Zealand. Corporal Alabaster is now able to got about with the aid of sticks.