PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 44, 20 February 1918, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

Mr. A. D. Riley has returned to Wellington from a visit to Australia.

Mr. C. B. Morison, K.C., has sufficiently recovered' from a recent operation to be able to go on a health trip to Rotorua.

Major-General Sir A: W. Robin, General Officer Commanding the Forces, who is conducting an inspectional tour in the South Island, is expected to return to Wellington on Friday morning.

Surgeon-General Henderson, C.8., Director-General of Medical Services, who has been on an official visit to the South, returned to Wellington this morning. He. left subsequently on a. visit to Awapuni Camp, Palmerston North.

The Hon. A. T. Maginnity, M.L.C., arrived from Nelson by the Pateena last night. To-morrow he will go on to Wanganui to attend the swimming meeting under the auspices of the Dominion Swimming Association, of which he is a vice-president.

The funeral of the late Captain Stephen Barker Thorns, master of the coastal steamer Huia, who died on Sunday last at Wanganui, took place to-day. The shipping fraternity was well represented, and many friends of the deceased were also present. The Rev. J. K. Archer officiated at the graveside.

Mrs. Blythe, of Oriental Bay, has received cabled advice that her son, Sergeant Sidney G. W. Blythe, has been awarded the Meritorious Service Medal. Sergeant Blythe ;. enlisted in England three years ago in the British Motor Transport Company, and went to France, where he was gassed. He recruited his health at the Manchester R-ecruiting Station, and thence proceeded to South Africa, where he has been for two years. Previous to leaving Wellington he was 6erying his articles to electric engineering with Messrs. Cederholm and Tollev.

Lieutenant-Colonel H. E. Pilkington, formerly Adjutant-General to the New Zealand Forces, now occupies a position of coma distinction with the British Expeditionary Force in France. In England, Lieutenant-Colonel Pilkington took a very exact course of ( ordnance, and the excellent training~he received has stood him in good stead: He is now assistant Director of Ordnance with.the 19thArmy Corps, and considers himself fortunate, inasmuch as few officers attain such a position without graduating through a division. When he wrote in December, Lieutenant-Colonel Pilkington was in excellent health and spirits.

Yesterday at the conference of members of the New Zealand Society of Civil Engineers, the president (Mr. J. Blair Mason) referred to the death, since last meeting, of four members of that body. Mr. T. S. Miller, of Invercargill, and Mr. William Widdowson, district engineer, Nelson, had died, he said, and two fine' young men—Mr. H. Metcalfe, jun. (Auckland) and Mr. Tomlinson, inn. (Greymouth) had laid down their lives in the cause of the Empire. A motion of sympathy with the relatives of those who have passed, away was passed in silence, members standing.

The following resignations of teachers were accepted at to-day's meeting of th« Education Board :—Mrs. Ahradsen, Castlepoint; Mrs. A. Howell, Mangamahoe; Miss E. M. Paine, Waikawa Bay; Miss E. Mason, Hillersden; Miss L. P. Simpison, Upton Downs; Miss M. Reese, Pahiatua D.H.S.; Miss W. E. M'Hardie, Pahiatua D.H.S.; Miss A. P. Ranwell, Mt. Cook Infants; Mrs. Cantley, Normal School; Miss E. Torr, Gladstone; Miss F. Rose, Korokoro;.'Miss C. Maskell, domestic science instructress. Leave of absence for Expeditionary Force service was granted as follows:—Messrs. A. Jackson, E. K. Rishworth (Training College students), W. R. Kennedy (Ngaio).

The many friends of Private Kenneth S. Andrus will be pleased to hear he is returning .(invalided) to New Zealand. Private Andrus left with the Auckland Mounted 'Rifles, 10th Reinforcements, but after a, few months in Egypt he was transferred to the 4th Otago Infantry Brigade, and proceeded to France, where after completing his infantry training he saw active service. He came through all the Somme battles unwounded, but shortly afterward, whilst assisting to build "advanced aid posts," he contracted severe pleurisy, with effusion, and was an inmate of Walton-on-Thames Auxiliary Hospital for some months. Private X, Andrus ie expected to arrive with the next returning draft.