PERSONAL ITEMS

Nelson Evening Mail, 8 June 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The following honours for members of the New Zealand Expeditionary' Forces have been awarded: —Bar to Military Medal, Temporary-Sergeants Frank Kennedy (Napier) and Albert R. Hawke Timaru), and Bombardier Alfred G. L. Bliss (Sydney).—Press Association.

Sir James Wilson has received ;i cable from his son, R.- A. Wilson, serving with the Royal Siege Artillery (Imperial Forces), in "France, that he has been promoted major in charge of a battery. He served, in the battle of Arras" This shows how quickly promotion comes in active service in these days, as' Major Wilson has been only eight months at the front, and in artillery forces promotion is proverbially slow. —Press Association.

The Defence Department advise that 5/5740 Private David Flett, of D Company, Twenty-eighth Reinforcements, died at Feathcrston Military Hospital yesterday.—Press Association.

The death occurred yesterday of Mr James Barton Sadd, in his 87th year. The deceased who was born in Cambridge, England, was teacher' for many years of the old Boys' School' in Nelson. For some time past he had been in failing health. of his family include Messrs R.'T. Sadd (Commissioner of Crown Lands for Otago), J. B. Sadd (of Langridge and Co., Takaka), and G. E. Sadd (of the Government Life Insurance Department), Mrs A. R. Davidson (Pakawau), Mrs Barnett (wife of the Rev. N. Barnett, of Patea), Mrs E. B. Burdekin, and Miss Sadd, who resided with her father in Tory street

{The name of J. \\. Bredbury, of Murchison, which appears in the list of West ■Coast names drawn in the ballot, should have been starred, he having previously enlisted.