PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 2 August 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

♦ L. R. Julian (Okato) is reported dangerously ill in the latest hospital report. A. Christchurch telegram reports the death of Mr Henry Suter, at the age of 77. He was a native of Switzerland, and at one time was curator of the Auckland Museum. He was one of the best known New Zealand conchologists, being a frequent contributor to scientific journals. A London cable states that an investiture was held at Buckingham Palace, when the King decorated Major Massey with the D.S.O. and Military Cross, in the presence of his father, the Prime Minister of New Zealand. One of the first acts of Mr Massey on reaching England was to proceed to Brockenhurst to visit Ms son, Major F. G. Massey, N.Z.R.8., who was seriously wounded in the Gerjnan offensive. Major Massey was attached to a battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers, and was commanding at the time when he was hit by a machine gun bullet. The bullet traversed both lungs, and although Major Massey is making very good progress towards recovery, it is feared that he will not | be permitted to return to France. | It will be of interest to many friends in Hawera and district to learn that Mr Cecil Burgess, son of Mr and j Mrs G. A. Burgess, of Hawera, has I been awarded his commission, and has been posted to Sling Camp for further training. Lieut. Burgess went away as a private in the Eighths, and has j seen a lot of service. For a consider- j able time he was in charge of a squad j of .snipers and gained great eomnienda- ! tion for his useful work. He after- j wards returned to England and has , been for four months at Cambridge, i j His many friends will congratulate ] ' him on his promotion. [