PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLI, Issue 9248, 15 January 1916, Page 3

PERSONALIA

The Prime Minister (Wight lion. W. f. Massey) left for the south last night. ill- Kobert Utmcun. chief inspector of machinery, It-it ok a holiday visit to Australia by Hie Manuka. Mi- Harold At-liUvn, who for a number of years has been prominently connected with the ,1. ('. Williamson organisation, has been appointor! -associate director tc the linn "in Australasia. jlogiinental-Sorgpant-Mnjor T. J. G. Icutland. of the New Xeal.uul Gun-jsau Artillery, died at the Auckland Hospital on Wednesday, at the ape of !». IJc«y«wl \va H p; ewuii.-K- a member of the LytteHon Garrison lor some soars. The Rev. Canon Take, who has been vicar of St. Augustine's Church, Napier, for Iho past (iiiecii yearn, has been made an archdeacon and appointed to the district-, of Tmirang.i. Tiie Hev, Eric luce, of 'fauraiiga, »iil succeed liim at Napier. The Hew F„ Warner is expected to arrive in Auckland by the Jfiverina next week to take, charge of Bei-esfoi-d strict Congregational Church for the ensuing six months: Mr Warner was formerly stationed m Auckland for some years as niiniidei- of Newton Congregationa' Olmrclu Mr L. T. Herbert, a business man iu Pahiatua, is advised from London* (s-oya a Press Association message) that his brother Frank, an officer of the Ponsia,.is among the missing. Deceased "wiw over thirty years in. the service- He visited Pahiatua a. year ago- His bro--Iher. Licuteuant-Colonci Herbert, is at tho front. Mr Gordon 3. Reid. who has been. supervising officer 'for Now Zealand of the Union Assurance Society for the past seven and a half years, lias been appointed assistant manager for New Zealand of tho Commercial Union Assurance Company, a.ud will be succeeded by- Mi-Joseph Wesney, recently manager, of tha latter company's Otago branch, and formerly of Invercargill. Lieutenant-Colonel. W. Mel drum, officei commanding the Wellington Mounted Rifle Regiment, who has just received tho C.M.G-. deoo/ation, wont away with the mam body of the expeditionary force. For a couple of years Be'tore leaving New Zealand he was farming at Huntervillo and W-aipukurau, aid prior to that practised law at Thames ftfid . Huntervillo. j His eldest son was a member of tho force i which occupied Samoa. , Mr Frederick Tritton, a prominent business man of Brisbane, is paying a visit to Wellington with his two daughters. It is fourteen years since Mr Tritton was last hero. Ho is surprised at the progress made by the capital in that period, and expresses: himself as being delighted with, the natural beauty of Wellington harbour and its fiurroundings. It is his intention to go on to Christchurch. and visit Rotorua and Auckland. Colonel .T. Q. Hughes, D.S-0-, C.M.G., whose name appeared in the Honours List published yesterday, is . a wellknown member of the New Zealand Staff Corps. ( Ho was appointed, to the New Zealand 'Expeditionary F'oree as assistant military secretary, and at Anzac commanded the Canterbury Infantry Battalion for some time. He was later invalided io London, and at latest; advices was still in. Wandsworth Hospital, though progressing favourably. He is a son-in-law of Mr Robert O'Connor, Wellington, Amongst young New Zoalandere.■'■■who h-ave received commissions recently is Ronald F. W. Mackenzie, sooond son of Mr James Mackenzie, 1.5.0., F.R.G.S.. formerly Under-Secretary for Lands -and Surveyor-General of the Botrtinioai. , Lieutenant Mackenzie is 2G-years of ago. •*•■ and was born in Karori, being educated first at the Karori State School andsubsegueutly at the New Plymouth and Auckland Grammar Schools. By profession as n. surveyor, sind r has teen a staff officer of,. the Lands and Survey Department since 1908. Some months ago he obtained leave of absence .from the department and enlisted, joining tho special training camp for non-coms. Soma interesting changes among their ; officer's are reported, by the' Salvation .Army authorities. Among these is the. i appointment of Adjutant Bladin, of Wellington city, to the new camp at Fcatherston, where o. fine institute is ap« preaching completion. The adjutant has been in charge of the Army's work in this city for the last two:-years,' and is considered to have dona excellently in every respect. Many expressions of re- . jrret at liis departure ere given, but it is recognised that be is, just tie man 'for work offering in the training camps. Two chaplains,. Captains. WiaMs and Garner, have recently gone abroad—Captain Garner to assist Captain Greene in Egypt and Captain Walls with reinforcements. Ghainlain-Oapfcain Gray, in charge of tho Army institute at Avonilale. has been appointed to a like position at Trcnfchsuu, while Captain Green, late assistant -at Taxiherenikau, has been appointed to Itangiotu. Other recent Salvation Army appointments were announced in the "Times" of .Thursday last. ' - :

The Rev. Patrick Dore, Chaplain to the I'orces, who was mentioned in yesterday's cables as having been awarded, the Military Cross, was. one of the two IJoman Catholic chaplains who left New Zealand in October, 1314, withtheMain Expeditionary Force. He was attached to the. Auckland Mounted .Rifles, and landed with them when, they arrived at Gallipoli.. Chaplain, Dore was an indefatigable worker in his own sphere | and was ever at hand to assist in any.branch of the work. His name was a.'-house-hold word among tho. lads at Anzac, by ■e»ery one ot whom he was' beloved. Chaplain Dore was hit while aiding a wounded man under fire on August 21st, and was taken to tha military, hospital at Bevonport, England, where ho was ljirug at the last advices. , Chaplain Dore vvas a native of the fxmth of Ireland, was about thirty years of age, and came to New Zealand five years'ago, being stationed at Palmerston. and J'oxton. He was an enthusiastic sportsman and t-xcelled in several branches of athletics.