PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 42, 17 August 1918, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

The Acting-Prime Minister (Sir James Allen) and the Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald were with a party of visitors to Trentham Camp to-day.

Mr.- C. Grayndler, secretary of the Agricultural - and Pastoral Workers' Union, returned yesterday from the South, and left for Hastings, where he is to address a meeting to-day.

Lieutenant-Colonel D. S. Wylie, C.M.G., arrived in Auckland from England by the Niaga.-i on Wednesday. Col. Wylie was officer commanding No. 1 New Zealand General Hospital at Brockenhurst up to January last, since when he has been engaged in military ortho paodic work at the Orthopaedic Hospital, Sh-spherd's Bush, London. He has returned to New Zealand in connection with special orthopaedic work among soldiers in the Dominion.

The deaths of two old Canterbury settlers are announced—namely, Mr. Charles Schnelle, of Papanui, and Mr. J. S. Bland, of Winchmore. Over fifty years ago Mr. Schnelle took up farming on his own account at Sedgemere, where he lived until he went into retirement about twenty years ago. Mr. James S. Bland, who passed away on Tuesday, at his home at Winchmore, arrived in New Zealand in 1859. When Mr. Bland came to Ashburton there was only one house there. He was prominent in agricultural matters in the Ashburton district for many years.

Mr. J. E. Henrys, the well-nown handicapper, has been officially advised that his second son, 2nd Lieutenant Stuart Henrys, N.Z.F.A., has been admitted to a hospital in England suffering from appendicitis. The record of Lieutenant Henrys in tho great war stands out prominently among the many fine records of young New ZealandersT He, enlisted in tho Main Body immediately after the outbreak of war, and before he had reached 18 years of age ;.nd went into tho Artillery Camp at Awapurii. Ho left New Zealand witn the Main Body, and has taken part in the fortunes of the New Zealanders ever since—in Egypt, Gallipoli, and on the Western front. While on service in Flanders he was selected to train for a commission, which he obtained before he had reached his majority. It is a coincidence that advice of his illness reached his father on the fourth anniversary of his entering camp at Awapuni. Mr. Henrys' youngest son, who is a medical student at Sydney University, has just reached military age. He is returning to New Zealand to enter the Flying School _t Sockburn.

A farewell to Mr. F. V. Frazer, S.M., who, after seven years' service in Auckland, has been appointed Magistrate at Wellington for the duration of the war, was tenderedl by members of the legal profession. Court officials, and others, in thj Magistrate's Court in Auckland on Wednesday. There was a large attendance. Mr. E. C. Outten, S.M., presided, and with, him on the Bench were Messrs. F. V. Frazer, S.M., E. D. Mosley, S.M., and F. K. Hunt, S.M. In reply, Mr. Frazer said if hie work had met with a measure of success it was due to the legal profession and those who had worked with him. He had always received unfailing courtesy from members of the B^ir, and he would have been churlieh if he had treated them otherwise. He had always thought that more could be made of the Police Court than as a place of punishment. There was room for constructive work, but he could have done little without the aid of the social workers of the city. He had endeavouredl to work out a scheme whereby those who were not hopeless were given a, chance to reform, and so far the results were very promising. The line had to be drawn at false sentimentality, arid it would Tiot do to . keep the idea of punishment too much in the background, as sometimes probation was not possible. Mr. Frazer referred to the fairness always shown by prosecuting police officers, and the assistance rendered' him by officers of the Court. He thanke_ the press for their gift andl assistance in the past, and in conclusion, said he would never forget tho happy times he had spent in Auckland.