PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9623, 31 March 1917, Page 3

PERSONALIA

file Hon. W. Fraser, who was ai Thame- yesterday, leaves that town this morning for VVeiliugton. litr tV. .11, I’. Barber, who has been visiting the South Island on business, resumed to M ollington yesterday morning. Mr T. M. Milford., who Ims, a legal engagement at Wanganui, leaves by the New Plymouth mail train this morning. New arrivals at the Hotel Windsor include Messrs K. 'loss (To Arnha), J. Perry iChristrhnrch'), P. T. Pearson (llnntervilie), Mr and Mrs S. Hammond (Huutervillo).. .. . . .. . Tim Harbour Board lias promoted Pilot ,T. Spence to be deputy-harbour-master and pilot, the ■ vacancy ■having been caused by the death of‘ Captain ,1. A. Hayward, The new appointment is to date from io-momiw.

There is likely to bo a triangular contest for the Napier Mayoralty, two candidates being in tbo held against ilie present Mayor, Air J. Vigor Brown, One of the candidates is Air 11. lan Sinifon, who 1 contested tho Hawke's Bay seat ‘against ' Sir "'John Findlay.

At a meeting of....the,, .Wellington branch of the Educational,. Institute last night, the following... .resolution, was carried: “That,.this..branch .places on - record its keen appreciation-of tho noi-ablo services of Mr IV. T. Grundy to education generally, and that tits institute extends to him'bn "his 1 retire* ment its very hearty good wishes.” Pastor M. W. P. Lascelles, of the Baptist Church, Tiinaru, who is also tlie Tim ant representative on tho National Council of the" Y.M.C.A.. has been asked by the'National Association to take up tho duties Of Commissioner for the Y.M.C.A. in Franco, but he has not yet'come to aiiy decision.

■ The Mayor of Wellington (Mr.J. P. Luke) and the city engineer (Mr W. H. Morton), accompanied by , Messrs E. Parry and L. Kirks,' Government electrical engineers, visited the hydroelectric works at Lake Coleridge on Wednesday. On tho return journey, the party camo through 'the Pakula Gorge, a short .stay being made at tho bridges there. They ore expected hack in Wellington to-day.

Tho Hon. G. vV. Russell (Minister for Public Health, Internal Affairs and Marine) is to visit Hawera, Stratford, and Now Plymouth to-day. Ho will stay at New Plymouth over Sunday and Monday, leaving for, Palmerston North early on Tuesday morning. On Wednesday he will , call at Otalq and Waikanac oh departmental business, and return to \V ellington the samo evening.

Promotions and transfers in tho Police 'Force were notified yesterday as under: —Sergeant Simpson, 1 . Dannovirke, to be transferred to Greymouth as senior sergeant, vice Senior-Ser-geant, Egan, transferred to Timaru; Sergeant T. M. Newmarket, to ha transferred to Hawera as senior sergeant, vice Senior-Ser'g'oaUt' McNioly, transferred to Auckland; Sergeant Ffcclos, To Kuiti, promoted to, senior sergeant; Sergeant Cummings, Rotorua, promoted' to senior sergeant; Sergeant MuCrorio, Westport, . promoted to senior sergeant. ...... Six of the eight Sons'of I 'Mr 1 H. G. Barnard, secretary of the. Bthain Dairy Company, have done service to the Empire, and the family has paid heavily in casualties for its, patriotism. The oldest and third.,sojis,yy.ere through the, Gallipoli campaign, and have returned to Now Zealand wounded, and been discharged as' unfit for, further service. Tho second' .son ''|l&fry, who was a law clerk in Auckland before his enlistment, was glso oh'the peninsula, and lies sleeping close tn Suyla Bay. He landed on Turkish soil with .the Main Body, and'was fortunate to get through all dangers until the fatal August Bth. when ho was shot down while helping to carry a wounded comrafe to a dressing station. Tho fourth son saw- active service in France, and is now quartermaster-sergeant at Sling Camp, in England. ..The fifth ds-still facing the foe in Franco, and the sixth has almost completed his. New Zealand training, and vv.il] lea.ye wjt,tr an early reinforcement.' Tho other two boys are not vet old enough to enlist. A Press Association, telegram from Rotorua states that Judge W. Browne, of the Native Land Court, and President of tho Wairariki Land Board District, was farewellod on, leaving for tho Aotoa district. Wanganui. There was a great gathering of natives on Wednesday night at— Toutiatckapua. Appreciative speeches > were made, and Jvidge Browne'received presents. He was entertained at a banquet ,on Thursday evening in the Lake House by the 'representatives of the Waimrikk Land Board*-Dis-trict, Mr Sharp, , solicitor, Tau- ■ ranga, presided. Therewere forty present and thirty-one apologies were received from distant friends., Tho chairman proposed tlio health of tho guest, who was presputei}. unt-h,a.hand-some gold Rotherham watch, a chain, and a matchbox. Judge Browne returned thanks, and proposed "tho Wajrariki District.” The toast was responded to by Messrs King (Tauranga), Lemon (To Puke). Grant (Paengayoa), Fleming (Whr.katonc), (Raukokero). MoDavitt (Morrinsville), Smith (Rotorua), and Butcher (Waiotapu and Taupo). • A report that Captain , Hawkins, formerly of Paiiiatua, was with ...the Tunnelling Corps in Franco, is incorrect. A lostor bus been received by Air C. D. Cole, of Stratford, from the oa]>tain, from France, dated January 6tf); in which- bo states that before going to the front he was sent in charge of a body of ‘ rdiiiTorccme.n'ffi from the English Colonial camp to Franco. lie -.vent straight back to England. "?A row days after,” ha continued, ‘T was ordered, with other officers, to go t<> France and report at the training camp, u'r- did so, and next day another officer (Lieutenant Kendall) and myself were called out from the. officers' training class and ordered to proceed to the Somme front forthwith. Why they shot us on so quickly I don't know, as there were, officers of the. 13t.1i and 13th Reinforcements still in England who had never seen France- However, we arrived at tho front all light- and had cur baptism of fire /m i Septemlicr loth, and Lieutenant Kendoil was ■wounded. I was second in Command of the Taranaki Company, with Major Claude Weston in command. The morning after we came out of .the Somme trenches. Major Weston left us to go for leave to London, and I was placed in command. After vve left the Somme we had two days’ rest, and were then ordered to another scene.of operations, and placed in charge of a section of trenches, and we have ■been in this place eve rsince.”