PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 23, 26 January 1918, Page 6

PERSONAL MATTERS

Sir James Carroll is on a visit to Wei lington.

Mr. W. Forrest, who has been connected with the Auckland Telegraph Office for many years, has been appointed officer in charge of the Timavu office.

Cpl. C. J. Cardno, 38th NZ.F.A. Reinforcements, has been promoted quarter-master-sergeant.

Th Rev. W. B. Scott, Methodist Cha'plai, 4th Class, has reported at Featherston Camp for duty, vice Rev. H. T. Peat, who is proceeding to the front.

The many friends of Col. A. Hume will learn with regret that his illness has assumed a serious phase, and that he has been unconscious since Thursday.

Mr. G. Carter, Salvation Army Chaplain, 4th Class, has been transferred from Tauherenikau to Featherston Camp, vice Mr. S. S. Green, Salvation Army Chaplain, 4tli Class, who is proceeding abroad.

The Rev. R. Franklin, M.A., vicar of St. Barnabas's Church, Eoseneath, and secretary of the . Wellington Diocesian Church Schools Board, has been appointed a chaplain on a New Zealand hospital ship.

Mr. Walter Nathan is acting as Consul in Wellington for Sweden, and it is understood that he is to be appointed to the position, which was recently resigned by Mr. Arthur Peare.

Major-General Sir,A. W. Robin, Commandant of the New Zealand Defence Forces, returned this morning from the South, where he has been engaged on official business. He was accompanied by Capt. D. Bryan, Assistant Military Secretary.

Mr. D. Cuthbert, superintendent for the Pacific Cable Board at Auckland, has been appointed superintendent of the board's Canadian lines, with headquarters at Montreal. Mr. Cnthberfc will be succeeded by Mr. Dicketts, formerly superintendent at Suva, Fiji. ' <

Mr. Gerald Sutton, who has for some years past held the position of accountant with Messrs. C. E.. Daniell, Ltd., Masterton, has been appointed manager and accountant of the Kaipara' Fruit Lands Association's Komiti block, North of Auckland. Mr. Sutton, who has made many friends in Masterton, particularly in his close connection with the Students' Association, Second Division League, Tennis Club and other bodies, will take up his new duties in about a month's time.

The death took place on Thursday afternoon, at the residence of his sister, Mrs. Arthur Lusty, Richmond, of Mr. Matthew Green, licensee of' the Globe Hotel, Nelson. The deceased, who had been seriously ill for some weeks, was well known on the West Coast and in Nelson, he having been for many years road overseer for the Public Works Department in the Nelson-West Coast districts, as well as for the Reefton County Council. He was 53 years of age, and leaves a widow and. two children.

Captain Charles K. Ward, of the New Zealand Dental Corps, whose disappearance was reported in London by cable message, is (says a Press Association message from Christchm-ch) the third son of the Rev. C. E. Ward, of Christchurch, and brother of Mr. R. B. Ward, a Christchurch solicitor. The first intimation his relatives had of his disappearance was conveyed in a prcje cable message. Captain Ward was the first dentist to enlist in New Zealand, and left for Samoa, .with the advance guard. Returning to New Zealand he was engaged, in camp duty until last Easter, when he left with a reinforcement draft for England. Since his arrival in the Old Country he has been stationed in London. He has four brothers at the front, one of them being Gnr. Wilfred I. Ward. Capt. Ward, who was practising his profession at Wellington at the outbreak of the war, was married just before leaving New Zealand for England. His wife is at present residing in Wellington.

Mr. William Widdowson, Resident Engineer at Nelson for the Public Works Department, who died suddenly on Thursday, from heart trouble, in his 59th year, was born in Canterbury. He was trained as an architect, and afterwards took up civil engineering. For eleven years he was in the service of the Victorian Government, and then returned to New Zealand. For a .lengthy period he was in charge of the construction of the CatlinsRoxburgh railway, and was transferred to Nelson in September, 1911, as Resident Engineer. The late Mr. Widdowson was a prominent Presbyterian and an earnest worker in connection with Trinity Church. He was an active Freemason, and at the time of his death was Senior Warden of Victory Lodge. He was.also Past Zin tho Royal Arch Chapter. A widow, two sons, and four daughters are left. The sons are Capt. W. Widdowson, M.C., and Gnr. Norman Widdoweon, both of whom are in France. The daughters are Mrs. H. Morrison, of Dunedin, and Blisses Amy, Florence and Alice Widdowson, Mr. BT. Y. WVldowson, S.M., of Dunedin, is a brother of the deceaoed.

Col. N. P. Adams, C.M.G., Commandant, Featherston Camp, who has been appointed President of tho Motuihi Court-Martial, which sits at Auckland next week, was born ■at Nelson and educated at Nelson College, commencing his military career in 1895, when he entered tho Nelson College Cadets. In 1900 he went to England, and entered the ranks of the Cambridge University MoTmted Infantry (now the cavalry branch of the Officers' Training Corps). In 1901 he received his commission in the Cambridge. University Mounted Infantry, and in 1902 took command. In 1904. he transferred to the King's Colonials (now King Edward's Horse). In 1908 ho got his captaincy, and was given charge of thij University Squadron (four troops), ' King's Colonials, comprised solely of University students, and at Oxford', including a great many of the Rhodes scholars. He qualified at the School of Musketry, Hythe, and also at the School of Signalling. In 1907 he attended the Kaiser manoeuvres in Southern Silesia, and upon another occasion the German Army manoeuvres in -Alsace-Lorraine. In 1910 he attended tho French colonial army manoeuvres in Algeria, and, at intervals spread over five years, participated in army manoeuvres in various parts of England, being attached to the Staff of the Household Brigade on two occasions. He returned to New Zealand in 1911, and went into IT Battery (Nelson), N.Z.F.A., taking command in the following year— a post which he still holds. He was appointed Camp Adjutant at Trentham in February, 1915, and in June of the same year Commandant of Tauherenikau Camp. On tho opening of the Featherston Camp in January, 1916, ho was transferred, being given the post of Commandant- there, and has held tha.t position ever since, receiving the C.M.G. for his services some time ago. Ho is a lawyer by profession, and is recognised in Army circles as one of tho best authorities on military law in New Zealand.

The "body" which a passenger by tho Masterton • train yesterday morning fancied he saw. floating in the harbour near Ngahanranga was recovered by the police after a good deal of trouble in the afternoon, but fortunately it turned out to bs nothing more gruesome than a khaki-coloured bed jqattnu,