PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 16, 18 July 1918, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

The Hon. T. M. Wilford left for the Wanganui this morning. Mr. T. W. Leys has been re-elected chairman of the Auckland University Council. Mr. T. W. Adams; of Greendale, has been elected an honorary life member of the New Zealand Forestry League. . Mr. D. J. Nathan, of the firm of Joseph Nathan and Co., is leaving for Sydney this evening by the Moeraki. Mr. Stanley K. Lambert, accountant of the New Zealand Farmers' Co.-op-erative Distributing Company, Ltd., has been promoted to the position of secretary, and Mr. R. L. Button has been appointed as sales' manager. Mr. B. L. Button has been for many years city representative of Messrs. E. W. Mills and Co., Ltd. Captain A. H. Burn, Group Commander at Nelson, has received notice to report at Trentham prior to returning on active service. ' Captain Burn left New Zealand in October,- 1915, as adjutant of the 2nd ■Battalion of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade, and, after several months' service in Egypt, was invalided to New Zealand. Major G. R. Blackett, M.C., will 'succeed Captain Burn as Group Commander at Nelson.

Captain F. F. Newman, son of Dr. A. K. Newman, M.P., has been awarded the Military Cross. Captain Newman went to England 'in 1915, and obtained his commission in the Royal Field Artillery. Later he was promoted to be lieutenant, and at the time of the first big German push .in March he was attached to a battery with the Fifth Army. . The British Infantry had retired, and Lieutenant Newman's guns on one ridge were confronted with the German artillery advancing over another ridge. By his coolness and determination, Lieutenant Newman kept his guns in action until the infantry could come up, so that the artillery was saved. For this he earned high commendation from" his superior officer, and was promoted to a captaincy andTecommended for the Military Cross.

The death occurred at the Wellington Hospital to-day of Mr. Alexander A. Freeman, aged 50. The late- Mr. Freeman, .who was' employed at the Government Printing Office, and formerly at the Empire Box-making Factory, had been a prominent member of the Wellington Typographical Society, in which he held, from time to time, various offices. At the time of his death he was a trustee. He was very popular among members of the society, and highly respected by all. Bom in Napier, he was a son of Mr. Stephen Freeman, a veTy old resident, of that town. His two brothers are Messrs. George H. Freeman, of Tinakori-road, Wellington, and Fred Freeman, of Napier. The late Mr. Alexander Freeman has a son, Arthur, at the front. He was twice married, and leaves a widow and a young family of four.