PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 214, 4 June 1919, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Cabled news lias been received in Ncltoii that Mnjor Arch. Hamilton, nf the, Indian Army, lias been ordered on aelive service, presumably with the forces operating against Iho 'Afghans. Major Hamilton, who is a member of the well-known Nelson family, served with distinction in the Bast African campaign against the Germans.

At a meeting of tho Dunedin Presbytery yesterday, the resignations of tho following ministers wore announced: The Rev. Dr. Rutherford Waddell, 40 years' rarvico at St. Andrew's; the Rev, .T, Lymburii, North Taieri, who has been ordained ISO years; and iho Rev. Andrew Cameron, minister at Anderson's Bay for over 31 years.—Press Assn.

Sir Douglas Mawson, who has returned to the Adelaide University after doinfi war work in Britain, etates in a. letter to Dr. J. Allan Thomson, Director of tho Dominion Museum, that ho intends to visit New Zealand shortly for the purpose of fctudying ico formations among the glaciers of tlio Southern Alps. Sit Douglas Mawson was a member of Sir Kriiest Slmokleton's first Antarctic Expedition in 1907-0!), and he w-as ono of the three men who marched to tho South Magnetic Polo in 1908. Professor Davis was ono of his companions on that journey. Later Sir Douglas Mawson. led an Australian Antarctic expedition to Victoria. Land, where he examined an important section of the Antarctic coast.

Sergeant Sinclair T. Thompson, son of Mr. Thomas Thompson, of Westport, who lefb Now Zealand with the Twelfth Reinforcements, returned by the Tofua last week. Ho saw service in various brimchcß of the Forces, and came eafely through tho heavy fighting in the last months of the war.

Professor David, of the Sydney University, has resumed work a-s Professor of Geology after spending nearly three years in Kurope with the Australian Tun. nell ; ns Corps. Professor David was well beyond military age when lie went to thi> Antarctic with Sir Ernest Shackleton \u 1907, but ho was not to l>e restrained from taking part in tho great war. His scientific knowledge was of very great value to ti o Australian.tunnellers.

The late Regimental .Sergeant-Major Stanley Choate, who died on the Pakeha the day before that vessel arrived in Wellington last week, had a good war record. When war broke out he was in Sydney, and soon after returned to New Zealand, find enlisted in the engineers' section of the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces, and as an engineer lie served in Egypt, Gallipoli, and France (latterly with distinction as a Base Records officer). Ho was awarded the silver medal for meritorious service. One who knew hjm well said that he was "a fine, manly soldier of the best type." The deceased, who was 37 years of age, was the son of Mr. William Choate, a surviving veteran of the Crimea.

Dr. W. A. Chappie, formerly of Wellington, who has represented the StirlinKshire constituency in the British House of Commons, arrived from England via America by the Niagara. Mr. T. A. Wells, of Manners Street, was entertained by his staff on Saturday evening Inst, and presented with a travel-ling-rug and gold emblem, and Mrs. Wells with a gold wristlet watch as tokens of esteem. Mr. and Mrs. Wells leave on an ttxenderl visit to the United States by the Moana on Friday next, Dr. D. Jenness, a son of Sir. G. L. Jenness. of Wellington, has returned to New Zealand after spending three years with the Ktefansson Expedition in the Arctic regions, and then a year with the Canadian forces in France. Dr. Jenness. who did particularly good work in anthropology during his university career, went to New Guinea.in ]012 to studr the natives, and he joined the Stefansson Expedition, which vras arranged by the Canadian Government, in the following year.