PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 140, 13 June 1918, Page 2

PERSONAL MATTERS

Private B. J. Reid, of Wellington, was reported missing on his 25th birthday (12th April). After serving at Samoa, Private Reid went away with the 14th Reinforcements, and was wounded at the Battle of JMessines.

Mr. Charles Hill, president of the Te Hiwi Bowling Club, was 86 years of age yesterday. The members of the club assembled at his residence at Island Bay yesterday evening, and made him a handsome presentation vn celebration of the event.

Mr. 0. Nicholson, who has been Mayor of the Borough of Mount Eden since the district was constituted a. borough, twelve years ago, has intimated his intention to resign the office. He had also been a member of the Mount Eden Road Board for six years.

Mr. A. E. Sand ford, accountant at the Union Bank of Australia, Auckland, has volunteered and has been accepted for active service, and goes into camp on 20th June. Mr. E. T. Porter, acting accountant at Wellington, has been promoted accountant at Auckland.

The Hon. W. J. Geddis, M.L.C., editor of the New Zealand Times, and Mr. G. Fenwick, managing director of the: OLago Daily Times, two of the members of the Imperi.il Press'delegation, left yesterday for Auckland. Mr. C. W. Earle, editor of the Dominion, and Mr. M. L. Reading, editor of the Lyttelton Times, loft for Auckland this I afternoon. ■ ' j Surgeon-Colonel W. H.» I'arkes and j Surgeoa-Major R. H. Hogg are among tliß recipients of the British Empire Order. The former is a well-known Auckland medico, and a brother-in-law of the late Dr. Savage, who succumbed to fever while on active service in Egypt some two years ago. Mrs. Parkes is a daughter of the late Mr. John Ross; of Wellington. Surgeon-Major Hogsc received part of his education at the Otago Boys' High School, and completed his medical studies in Edinburgh. He has i been in practice in InvercargiU for close on 20 years, and has been attached to a New Zealand hospital in London since shortly after the outbreak of war.

Mr. John Newton Storry, who was, twenty years ago, a resident of Wellington, and employed £t the Government Printing Office, is tiie subject of a laudatory paragraph in a San* Francisco newspaper. Mr. '■Storry, it appears, was a member of the Union League Club, which "'represents the patriotism and determination of a man who would not permit his age to baulk his desires to teke a hand in crushing the Kaiser." Storry, a civil engineer, was two years over the age, and was turned down at every recruiting office in San Francisco, but finally, through the British Consulate, he succeeded in enlisting as a private in a field company of the Canadian Engineers. At time of writing he was at Vancouver. On the steamer Storry and a companion were attacked by three I.W.W. agitators, who had sought to dissuade them from joining their regiments. They subdued the trio, and turned them over to a United States marshal.