PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 151, 28 June 1915, Page 6

PERSONAL MATTERS

Dr Finch, of the Health Department, has been ' appointed Sanitary Officer of Trentham Camp. Sergeant J. W. M. Singleton ha* been appointed sergeant-major of the 2nd Maori Contingent. Mr. Gordon Maitland has been appointed manager of Messrs. Levin and Co.'s branch at Picton. Mr. Graham Griffiths, a member of the Blenheim Borough Council, i« shortly leaving for the front. The Hon. J. A. Millar, M.L.C., who will arrive in Wellington this week to take his seat :n the Legislative Council, is said to lie very much improved in health. A Press Association telegram from tho Thames announces the deaths of Mr S. T, Whitehouse, an old resident, well known in Church circles, and Mr. Humphrey Autridge, a Maori War veteran. Private John Muriwai, who was attacked by measles and pneumonia while ha was in camp at Trentham, died in Wellington Hospital to-day. His relatives reside in the Hokianga district. Private Hugh Stafford, son of Mr. W. Stafford, of the Ruby Bay estate, Nelson, who contracted measles in tho Trentham camp, is seriously ill in Wellington Hospital, suffering from bronchial pneumonia. „ Mr. Prank Julius^ a Johnsonville- resident of long standing, who was a successful applicant at an agricultural land ballot at Timaru recently, is to be entertained at a complimentary social in Moore's Hall, Johnsonville, by the people of the district prior to his departure for the South. Mr. C. K. Bigg, of the Royal Insur» ance Company, Dunedin, second son of Mr. R. B. Rigg, of the' head office of the Bank of New Zealand, arrived in Wellington yesterday en route to Melbourne, where he will take up a commission with the Australian Imperial Artillery Reinforcements. Prior to coming to New Zealand two years ago, he held a commission with the Artillery in Melbourne. As reported by Press Association mes* sago on Saturday last, the death occurred at the Nelson Hospital on the previous day of Mr. J. Kidson, second officer of the Anchor steamer Waimea. as the result of a, fall on the vessel's deck at Richmond Bay, Pelorus Sound. The injuries were, not apparent at the time, but on the Waimea 8 arrival at Nelson, the doctor ordered his removal to the hospital. Mr. Kidson, who was about, 42 years of age, leaves a wiiow and several children.. He was a very popular officer inthe Anchor Company's service.