PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 147, 18 December 1915, Page 6

PERSONAL MATTERS

The Hon. Dr. Pomare left for Rotorua last night. Mr. T. M. Wilford, M.P., left for Auckland last night. Mr. F. W. Venn, a leading resident of Shannon, is seriously ill. Councillor G. A. Monk has been elected chairman of the Horowhenua County Council. ' , The Rev. F, Stubbs, F.R.G.S., who is making a tour of the Dominion, left for the South last night. Mr. T. Parata, M.P. for Southern Maori, left for Gisborne yesterday to attend 'the funeral of the late Mr. Wi Pere. Mr. R. Patterson, of Westport, has been re-elected a member of the Nelson Land Board as representative of the Crown tenants. Dr. E. W. Sharman, of Auckland, has been1 appointed to the New Zealand Medical Staff, and has gone into camp at PaJmerston North. The Auckland Hospital Board has accepted the resignation of Dr. A. M'G. Grant, acting-medical superintendent, who is going to the front. Mr. Gordon Harcourt underwent an operation in the Lister private hospital yesterday. He is repoi-ted to-day to be progressing satisfactorily. Mr. J. B. Morton, of Onehunga, Taranaki delegate on the council of the New Zealand Football League, is dangerously ill in the Auckland Hospital.

Mr. R. P. Connel], M.A., Assistant Instructor in Agriculture in the North. Canterbury Education District, has been appointed Instructor in Agriculture to the Auckland Education Board.

Mr. W. Morrison, manager of the Te Awamutu branch of the Bank of New Zealand, has been promoted to the position of manager of the Whakatane branch. He will be succeeded by Mr. L. Hewitt, manager at Opotiki.

Mr. J. F. Adams, of Molesworthstreet, heard from her son, Pte. Herbert Adams, by last mail. He has been, in the trenches since the beginning of October, and says that he is in splendid health, and has fixed up his dug-out so that it, is quite a " Grand Hotel" in its way. Two of his brothers are- also ai the front, and in good health.

Mr. Gerald Lyon has received promotion at the front to the rank of temporary second lieutenant. Lieutenant Lyon loft here with the Main Body as a gunner in tho 3rd Battery, N.Z.F.A., was promoted n.c.o. in Egypt, and now that he has received a commission lias been posted to No. 1 Battery. Landing on tho fifth day after the first landing at Anzac, Lieutenant Lyon has been continuously on the Gallipoli Peninsula, and in spite of many narrow escapes has so far come scathless through the ordeal.

Mr. A. B. M'Coll, who went away with the Ist Expeditionary Force (Main Body) as a sub-lieutenant, has been promoted captain, and has cabled out : "Am in the best of health." He is the elder son of Mr. Peter M'Coll, superintendent engineer of the municipal power and lighting station. Wellington. Capt. M'Coll was wounded the fifth day after the memorable landing in Gallipoli, returned to the trenches twenty-six days afterwards, and has since been engaged in the strenuous fighting on the Peninsula.