PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 83, 31 December 1924, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

Commodore T. E. Wardle, R.N., D. 5.0., has been elected president ot the United Service Institution of New South Wales. He is commander of the Rovul Australian Navy. He joined the Royal Navy in 1890, and has served in every naval station. Besides the D. 5.0., he has also the decoration of the Order of the Risiirn; Sun. During the war he seried with the Tenth Cruiser Squadron under His Excellency the Governor, Vice-Admiral Sir Dudley de Chair. He was later given command ot the armed merchantman Alcantara. While in command of that vessel he had a thrilling encounter with the German raide- Grief, both vessels being sunk. On that occasion Commodore ardle gained his D.S.O. In 1918 he commissioned the Danae, one of the light cruisers that came to Australia and Nrw Zealand with the Special Service Squadron, and he later seived as Chief ot Staff of the British Mission in Greece. He was serving in the North Sea. when appointed to his present post.

Mr. M. C. Barnett, formerly an assistant Public Trustee, who has been on a trip to England, left London for Melbourne, via Cape Town, by the Ulrsses oa December 20. Among the passengers to arrive here bv* the Corinthio on Mondav next from London is Major-General Sir Cameroji Deane Shute, K.C.8., K.C.M.G., C.M.G., who intends to test the Lake Taupo fishing grounds. Major-Gen-eral Shute, who was born in 1866, is a son of Colonel Deane Shute, and was educated at Marlborough and abroad. He went through the Army Staft College in 1893-94, served in the Nile Expedition in 1898, and commatulcd the Second Rifle Brigade from 1910 to 1911. During the Great War he was mentioned in dispatches, and was promote/! to be major-general, and wa s temporarily Jkut-general in 19JS-19. Ho was made a Commander of the Legion of Honour, and a Comniandei of the Ord re de la Couromie (with the Croix de Guerre) by the Trench Government

Major and Mrs, H- R- Tuppen, and Mr R E. Hassell,- of London, will arrive in Wellington shortly from Australia. They will make a comprehensiv®' tour of the Dominion. and will leave for England on February 21. -Vrchdeacon and Airs. Evans, ot New Plvmouth, will leave on a trip so England by the lonic in Alarch next- , - T -> Air. and Airs. G. Cook, of London, were among the passengers who arrived from Sydney by the Maheno on Monday. They will leave on a visit to the' Hot Lakes district on Saturday and will leave for Sydney by the Alarama on January 22. Afr A. C Waters, general manager of the Newcastle Shipbuilding and Engineering Works, Australia, is a visitor to Wellington.

Air. and Mrs.'AV. T. Kennard, of London, are visitors to Wellington, having hist completed a pleasurable tour of the 'riot Lakes district They will leave for Sydney by the Alaheno on Friday.