PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 137, 9 June 1917, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

His Excellency the Governor hae received advice that His Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to confer the honour of Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George (C.M.G.) upon Capt. P. H. Hall Thompson, R.N., Naval Adviser to the Government of New Zealand.

Mr. J. Colvin, M.P. for Buller, -is on a visit to Wellington.

Mr. H. Routh, assistant manager at Te Aro House, has passed the medical examination, and will go into camp at the, end of the month.

Mr. T. W. Adams has completed a quarter of a century's service on the Canterbury Education Board. He has never missed a meeting.

Mrl ■F. W. Mountjoy, manager of the Invercargill branch of Messrs. Fletcher 8r05.,, Ltd., contractors, of Dunedin, has taken over the management of the Wellington branch.

■ "I- can tell you he was a good gunner, when he and I were in the Garrison Artillery together years ago,"' said Col. G. F. C. Campbell in proposing a vote of thanks to Major Andrews for his address at the Officers' Institute last evening.

Mr. Allen Haigh, one of the pioneers of the West Coast of the South Island, died recently at Cob'den. , A native of Elland, County of Yorkshire, he left England with the troops to take part in the suppression of the Indian Mutiny, and was one of the defenders of Lucknow,; under Sir Colin Campbell, in 1857----58, and held the double clasp and medal of the 84th Regiment. Leaving India for New Zealand with the Imperial troops he saw further service in the Maori wars, and was at Gate Pa and Tauranga Pa engagements, for which he gained the Maori war medal.