PERSONAL ITEMS

Nelson Evening Mail, 16 November 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

A Sydney Press cable announces the death of (Mr John Kent, President of the Y.M.C.A.

Stoker Percy Palmer, of Pigeon Valley, who has been on leave for some weeks, has left Nelson to lcj'jin his ship.

.Mr Herbert Watson., son of Captain vv atson, formerly of the Lady Barekley and Tasman, has enlisted for active service iu the Field Artillery at Sydney. '•! i-v-t ] Q . -*rvl o"» year of his'childhood jvas spent in Nelson.

Captain J. Lloyd Findlay, East Surrey Regiment, the son of Sir John and Lady FMidl"-'. received at Buckingham Palace, the Military Cross. Captain Findlay has £,lso received the Legion of Honour. He was wounded in July, and is now almost fit for duty again.

Lieutenant J. H. Cock (son of Mr J. H. Cock}, wounded on Gallipoli and ,oK- 0 jn Fierce, has been discharged from the N.Z.E.F. ,to take up a commission in the Royal Flying Corps; says the Post correspondent., /,'"*•& Sergeant Stamev G. Thompson, son of Mr W. D. Thompson, of Bay View, Wakapuaka. who "was wounded in France on 7th July, has now recovered and is acting-sergeant-major at the Base in France with 200 men to look after. Sergeant Thompson has a'brother in in. Egypt, while an elder brother was killed in action in France during the great push.

Mrs R. Hart, of Richmond, received yesterdav a telegram from the Minister of Defence, stating that her son Sergeant 1 E. Carr, who was wounded at the Sommeon September 20th, is in the hospital at Brocklehurst and progressing favourably. Mrs Hart has also received; a letter from Sergeant Carr her that he was injured in the leg 'by a bomb, the fragments of which'had been •removed. He writes in high terms of the treatment at the Hospital, and hoped, soon to be able to. get about.

A London cable states that the awards of the Distinguished Service Order include Captain Starnes,a New Zealander. / Five NeK Zealanders received the Military Medal, and two New Zealanders the Distinguished Conduct Medal. Captain F. Starnes comes from the Motueka district. ,He left New Zealand with the -original ExpeditionaryForce. Up enlisted in Nelson, heing given his Territorial rank of lieutenant and. posted to the C Company of the Canterbury Infantry Regiment.

■Lieutenant C. F. Carey was recently reported as havinsr been killed at Slincr Camp. Salisbury Plain, as the result of an accident caused by bomb-throwing. Cahle advice is now to hand from Bri-gadier-General Richardson, savs the' Post, stating that Lieutenant Carey's action slaved the life of 21687 Private A. H. Hounsell, and that this was the fourth occasion, on which Lieutenant Oarev showed.remarkable bravery at theBombing School. v He has been recommended for posthumous reward. Sergeant E. E. C. Boyes. of the Field Artillery, who was head teacher in a country school in is utilising any leave he gets from the' Reserve Camp at Sling to inspect English schools, says the Post's London correspondent. By means of a letter of introduction from the High Commissioner to the Education Department ,' of the London County Council he has been able to visit a number of schools in London, and in other ways, to increase his educational knowledge. A brother, also in the Field Artillery, is now in the Ist London General Hospital suffering from shell shock. Mr.Boyes has another "brother in the Artillery. ,

A London Press cable received some, little time a<ro stated that the President of the Board of Trade (Mr Runciman) had appointed Sir Gerard Mnntz (President of the British Institute of ts chairman of a committee to consider the position after the war, especially in relation to the international competition of traders in lead, copper, tin, and other non-ferrous metals and to report what measures, if any, are necessarv or 'desirable to safeguard the position. Sir Gerard Mnntz i* a cousin of Mr C. F. Muntz, of the Upper Moutere.