PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 42, 18 August 1916, Page 2

PERSONAL MATTERS

1 VICEREGAL. Their "Excellencies the Governor and the Countess of Liverpool returned to Wellington from Christchurch this morning-. The Hon. J. Allen is due back in Wellington from the South to-morrow. ■ Mr. S. W. Smith is gazetted- DeputyOfficial Assignee at Napier. Miss Edwina Shields has been a,pjpointed Deputy-Registrar of Births and 'Deaths for the Wellineton North district. Dean Hylaiid, of Ohristchurch, and Messrs. Kamiya and1 Hagishiyma, of the ■Osaka Mercantile Steamship Company of Japan, were passengers from Wellington by the last steamer for San Francisco. Lieut.-Commander George H. Dennistoun, 8.N., son of Mr. G. H. Dennistoun, of Peel .Forest, Canterbury, has received the D.S.O. for services on the occasion of the destruction of the German gunboat Hermann yon Wissmana on Lake Nyanza. He joined the Navy ■seventeeen years ago. Mr. E. Morgan, District Valuer, of Auckland, is at present in Wellington visiting his son, Sergt. L. 0. Morgan, of. the 16th Reinforcements. Sergt. Morgan was for some time acting-lieutenant in the Senior Cadets in Auckland, and was a teacher at the Auckland Technical School. He enlisted, as a private, and was top of his company in the shootingtests. Capt. Birch, master of the barque Daniel, which arrived at Auckland oil Wednesday from Clarence Town. New South Wales, was a member of the Main Body of the Australian Expeditionary Force. He took part in tha initial landing at Gallipoli, and was severely wounded. Before he enlisted he was an officer in the employ of the Adelaide Steamship Company.' Trooper W. G. Shaw (killed in action in France on 31st July) was a son of the late Mr. W. Shaw, of Wellington, and received his education at the Mount Cook School. Ho left as a. mounted man in the Bth Reinforcements, and transferred to the Engineers. Lieutenant John. Suaddon (wounded) and Private F. iSnaddon (killed in Franco), both of Wellington, were his cousins. Capt. G. H. Wood, of St. Andrews, Canterbury (died from wounds), was an officer who had both medical and nautical qualifications. Formerly he was at sea, as an officer of the Shaw-Savill steamers, and held the position of a captain in the Royal Naval Reserve. Then he studied for the medical profession, and became a skilful surgeon. For some years prior to his enlistment he practised as a medical man at St. Andrews. Mr. P. D. Hoskins, accounts clerk of the General Post Office, Wellington, has been awarded the "Gray" memorial medal for the year 1914. This medal is awarded by the Post and Telegraph Department annually to the officer making the best suggestion adopted by the Government for improved methods in the work of the service. The medal also perpetuates the memory of the late Mr. William Gray, who for many years occupied the position of Secretary to the Department. The Wellington .Hospital and Charitable Aid Board yesterday placed on record its regret at the death of Mrs. T. C. Williams, and expressed its sympathy with the deceased lady's family. In moving to this effect, Mr. C. M. Luke said that the late Mrs. Williams was one of the ladies who worked to secure the erection of the Victoria Hospital. With other ladies, she was to the fore in' the great crusade against tuberculosis, and raised a sum of money for the erection of shelters and the sanatorium at Otaki. One of her last works was to obtain improvements and additions to the Victoria Hospital. 'Lieutenant F. C. Hawley, son of Mr. C. L. Hawley, of Thorndon-quay, Wellington, who went to the front as a trooper with the Australian Light Horse, recently received Mb commdssian. He went to Egypt with the sth Australian Reinforcements, and is still there on active service. From trooper he passed through all the ranks to sergeant-major, until his recent promotion gained him his commission. Lieutenant Hawley is an old boy of Clyde-quay School, and was formerly on the staff of the Bank of New Zealand. He then, joined the mercantile service, taking up his residence in Australia. He enlisted shortly after the outbreak of war. A recent number pi an English illustrated paper contains an excellent portrait of Lieut. Archibald Ranson, R.N.R., who has been awarded the Order of St. Stanislaus by the Tsar of Russia. Lieut. Ranson is a' native of England, and a nephew of Mr. James Ranson, retired master builder, of Wellington South. He went to sea at an early age, and made several voyages to New Zealand as an officer of big steamers trading between England and the Dominion. When the war broke out he was chief officer of pjici of those, vessels, and on her return to London he offered his services to the Admiralty. Presumably the Russian decoration was given for the young lieutenant's good work in the Baltic.