PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9632, 12 April 1917, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Information has been received in Master ton that Lieutenant-Colonel liart, or Carterton, has been promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General. Mr William Green, of papier, an exresidont of Christchurch and a returned soldier, has been appointed secretary of the Christchurch branch of the Returned Soldiers' Association. Mr Green will take up his duties on Monday next.

Amoucr the returned soldiers ''’ho arrived in Auckland on Tuesday was Bombardier Charles Murray, who holds the ten-mile running championship oi Isew Zealand. He left with the Main Body and was on Gallipoli for eleven months. He has been, invalided back from Franco.

The death occurred on Saturday evening at the Otaki Hospital of Mrs Tobeck, who had only arrived with her husband a few days previously to take over a farm in that district. Deceased, who was only forty-two years of ago, leaves a husband and several children to mourn their loss.

Mr A- M. Burns, of Wellington (vicepresident of the New Zealand Educational Institute), and Messrs H, A. Parkinson (Wellington) and W. H. Newton (Thames), who went to Christchurch to attend an important meeting of the executive of that body, returned to Wellington yesterday.

Dr Kenneth McKenzie and Dr C. J. Bos-siter (says tlie “New Zealand Herald”) have volunteered for service at ibo front, in response to an appeal tor more military doctors by Surgeon-General It. S. F. Henderson. They have applied to the Hospital Board to be relieved of duty at the Auckland Hospital.

Second Lieutenant Neil C. McLean, B-iflo Brigade, whose promotion to the rank of junior subaltern in the Now Zealand Expeditionary Force was reported last week is a eon of Mr Murdoch McLean, Mayor of Mount Albert, Auckland He left New Zealand in October, 1915, and h*va been promoted from tho ranks to a commission.

The following officers have been elected by the Wellington Trades and Labour Council:—President, Mr J. Head; vice-president, Mr H. Hanton; secretary, Mr W. Cooper; treasurer, Mr H. Heap; trustees, Messrs W. Waterworth and 11. J. Eeardon; committee, Messrs J. McKenzie, J. Black, P. O’Neill, E. J, Euddell, and Q. Wale. The many friends of Mr Arthur Harvie, who for some time was on the local staff of the Bank of Australasia, will regret to learn that he was killed in action on November 19th t last. Mr Harvio left Wellington to join the Australian Forces, and was reported wounded in November. Now advice that he was killed has been received.

Following on the death in France last November of a brother, Mrs Herbert Boss, of Oriental Bay, has received a cable informing her that another brother (Robert) was killed in action in Franco on March 13th. Mrs Ross’s third and only remaining brother is also at the front. All three left with reinforce-, ments from Queensland eighteen months ago.

Mr George E. Holford, D. Agric., who for the last four and a half years has been with the local branch of Messrs Wright, Stephenson nnd Co., Ltd., . Christchurch, was the recipient on Thursday last of a rug and fountain pen prior to his leaving the firm's employ to take up a position with the New Zealand Farmers’ Co-operative Association.

Quartermaster-Sergeant A. .T. Mason, who has been awarded the Military Medal for having saved the lives of three wounded comrades, is the son of Mr/and Mrs J. F. Mason, of Nelson street, Petone. In civil life he was employed in the preserving works aj; the Gear Company. Quartermaster-Sergeant Mason is the second Petone boy to receive a" special military decoration, the other being Trooper Carter, son of Mr A. Carter, of Cuba street, Petone.

H. S. Aloe, a well-known Christchurch rxxJestriau ,on Thursday succeeded' in lowering the record for tho distance, Bi miles, between Ashburton and Christchurch (says the ‘Tress”). Alp© Undertook tho feat in aid of the Returned Soldiers’ Association Soldiers’ Day appeal for funds, which haTo been augmented to the extent of .£6O as a result The previous record for the walk was lllir llmin; Alpe’s time on Thursday •was lOhr filmin', or 20 minutes lower than the previous record.

The death occurred a-t Ashburtoh on Monday of Mr Amos Dempster, youngest son of Mr Qco. Dempster, of Otaki. Deceased was until quite recently a fine stamp of manhood, a good all-round athlete, as well as highly popular. Some time ago he enlisted, hut owing to an accident to his ankle was exempted. About five weeks ago he was on holiday in Otaki in good health and spirits, but a few days ago he was seized with dropsy, from which he never recovered. Tho late Mr Dempster was in business in Ashburton as a dentist. Captain EJ. Stott, local marine superintendent for tlie Union Company, leaves Wellington this evening ifor Auckland by the Monowai to take up his new duties there. Captain K. S. Walton has arrived at Wellington from Lyttelton to succeed Captain Stott at this port. Tho latter will succeed Mr Birch, who has been connected with shipping at Auckland for many years, and whose early experience was gained at sea. lor over a quarter of a century he has been engaged on the Union Company’s Auckland staff.

Mrs Verne Hargreaves, of Weston road, Christchurch, has received advice from London that the name of her brother. Second Lieutenant Norman Cunningham, of the Royal Field Artillery, has appeared in the New Year’s Honours List as mentioned in dispatches for distinguished field service (in tho battles of Oombles and Morval). Lieutenant Cunningham is the youngest ©on of tho late Mr Peter Cunningham, of Merivale. All Mr Cunningham’s sons have enlisted. One has been in Gallipoli, one in Mesopotamia. and one in France. Miss Cunningham is doing war work in England. She has been for the last year a forewoman in Woolwich Arsenal. An early settler, a keen, lover of sport, and a typical English gentleman passed away (says tho Christchurch Evening News”) in Mr Colthurst Palairet, whose death in his 79th year occurred on Saturday last. Mr Palairet was a native of Somersetshire, England, and arrived in tho Dominion in 1860. Shortly afterwards he took up sheepfaming. and subsequently was appointed to the Deeds Registry Office in Christchurch. After the Land Transfer Act came into force Mr Palairet retired from Government employ, and went into the business of licensed land broker and general commission agent. He was one of the first in the Dominion to be licensed as a land broker under the Land Transfer Act. Ho took a prominent part in volunteering and was a member, and subsequently captain, of the old Canterbury Mounted Rifles. When tho Third Containment —the Rough Riders—were undergoing their training In camp on tho Show Grounds .at Addington, prior to leaving for South Africa. Captain Palairet was on the camp staff and discharged officientlv the duties of camp quartermaster. In sport Mr Palairet took great interest in hunting, and:for many years was associated with the Christchurch Hunt Club, of which bode he was treasurer. He wan a member of the old Midland Cricket Club, and during the whole neriod of the club's existence was its vlco-nresident. Later he was ft member of the Veterans’ Club. As n tennis player Mr Palairet was keen and enthusiastic, and was president of tho Linwcod Tennis Clnh from its inception almost to ithe day of his death. Mrs Palariet predeceased him some eight or ten years ago. He leaves two daughters -Mrs W. 8. Godfrey and Mrs T. H. Jackson-

Tlie Hon A. M. Myers (Minister for Finance) who has been spending the week at Mount Cook, returns to Christchurch ou Saturday evening, and will leave for Wellington on Monday ing.

The Ilev. W. A. Sinclair, president of the Methodist Conference, left Christ** church on Tuesday for his new charge at New Plymouth. In two years’ tim© Mr’ Sinclair expects to take up his duties as foreign mission secretary, and w»U probably reside in Auckland.

Mi's Muirson, of St. Asaph stroetChristbhurch. received advice that her son Captain Kenneth Muirson* oi tho Australian Imperial Force, has been, promoted to the rank of major. Major IM'uirson. who has just attained hia twenty-second birthday, was at the land* ing at Gallipoli, and took part in tho evacuation of the peninsula. Sine© tboxx he has been in France.

His Excellency the Governor (the Earl of Liverpool) und tho Countess o! Liven pool wore present at the eecond day of tho autumn meeting at EUerslle on Monday. In th© evening Her Excellency was present at the concert given by tho Cherniovsky Brothers in the Town Hall* yesterday.! afternoon Her Excellency opened a sale of work at Bishopscourti in aid of St. Mury'e Homos. Tho cere* rtiony of laving the foundation stone of tho now Children's Hospital will be poiv formed by tho Governor on Saturday afternoon.

Tho Hibernian Hall. Christchurch,, was crowded on Monday night, tho occasion being a farewell and presentation to the Her. Father J. Murphy by th* members of the confraternity and kief friends of the Cathedral parifih, upon his appointment as chaplain to the New , Zealand forces stationed at Trenthnm. Father Mnrphy has been assistant priest nt the Roman Catholic Cathedral for tho past five years. Among those present wore Bishop Brodio. Beau Regnault and Fathers Burger. Long, H aura h an, O’Haro and Roach. Bishop Brodie presented tlie guest of the evening with a purse of sovereigns, the gift of too united branches of the archconfraternity. •He eulogised the good work accomplished bv Father Murphy since his connection with the Cathedral parish, and wished, him every success in his now sphere.