PERSONAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17527, 10 July 1917, Page 7

PERSONAL.

Mr F. C. Ellis left for Wellington last evening to attend a conference of engineering employees. Sir G. Clifford, Mr J. C. N. Grigg and Mr T. H. Davey left for the north last evening.

Mr G. Witty. M.P., Mr J. Craigie, M.P., and Mr W. J. Dickie, M.P., left for Wellington by last evening’s ferry steamer.

Mr V. R. Meredith, one of the Crown Law solicitors, of Wellington, has tendered his resignation from the Government service, having accepted a partnership in the legal firm of Hesketh and Richmond, Auckland.

It was stated in tho “ Lyttelton Times yesterday that Mr M. W. Hoggan had been gazetted a secondlieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps. Mr Hbggan states that tho report 1 is entirely incorrect. Tho relations of Captain Oram, of Kniapoi, who was recently wounded, received a telegram from Base Records yesterday, reading, “Major Harry O'ram transferred; at 'present on sick leave.” This is tho first notice received of Captain Oram’s promotion.

Prior to his departure for camp, Private J. Spencer, a well-known Nomads player, was presented by his numerous friends with a fountain-pen, a soldier’s diary and a writing outfit. Mr O’Callaghan, in making the presentation, referred in eulogistic terms to the sterling qualities of Private Spencer, who suitably replied.

News has been received in Dunedin by cable, states the correspondent of the “ Lyttelton Times,” that Captain ■Pcrcival Clay Bridgeman, eldest son of Mr F. 0. Bridgeman, American Consul at Dunedin, has been appointed De-puty-Director of the Military Aircraft Department. Captain Percy Bridgeman was in England at the outbreak of the war, and volunteering at once, received a commission in October, 1914, in the Army Service Corps. After nine months’ active service in Flanders and taking part in the battle of Ypres, Captain Bridgeman was sent back to England to instruct recruits in the A.S.C., and subsequently received a staff appointment at the War Office in connection with ’thq Royal Flying Corps. For some timo past he has been an equipment officer in theR.F.C., inspecting aeroplanes before their dispatch to tho front.