PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 10057, 23 August 1918, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Major C. McGilp, a returned artillery officer, has arrived at Featherston Camp for duty. The resignation of Mr E. Hambly, clerk to the Hospital Board, has been accepted.

Mr W. W. Snodgrass, Mayor of Nelson, visited Featherston Camp yesterday, and he attended tho 45tlx Artillery shoot at Morrison's Bush.

The Acting-Prime Minister (the Hon. Sir James Allen) is due back in Wellington from tho South Island this morning.

Owing to a severe attack of influenza Mr James Hislop, Under-Sccretary for Internal Affairs, is confined to his house.

Mr Vincent Joseph Delaney has been appointed Deputy Registrar for Births and Deaths at Uourtonay place, Web linStoEi.

At yesterdays’ meeting of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Hoard leave of absence for four months was granted to Mr G. Nash on account of continued ill-health. ' ! The Colonial Auxiliary Forces LongService Medal has been awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel George Mitohell. D. 5.0., Bth (Southland) Regiment, who has a service ot upwards of 20 ycara ; to his credit. Cable advice has been received that j Sergeant H. G. Williams, formerly of ; the Artillery Barracks, Nelson, has been admitted to Brockenhurst Hos- ; pital, England, suffering from trench i fever. ■ Messrs Hcnrv Douglas Morpeth Has* : zard, Thomas William Foster; and William James Annam McGregor, have ; been appointed as Commissioners to , classify and report upop pastoral runs in the Southland Land District.

Mr C. J. McEachon, formerly, of tho Nelson Railway Office, who had been spending his-annual holiday in Nelson, has. returned to Clinton. He visited Wellington last week to say gbod-bya to his son, who is in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Captain F, L. Hartnell has been transferred from Trentham Details to the 49th Reinforcement; Captain W. A. G. Penlington irom Trentham Details to Base Records; and SecondLieutenant L. M. Petrie from Trentham Details to the 46th Reinforcement.

Advice has been received in Christ* ' .church that Lieutenant C. Quartley, who was gassed in Franco in May last, : is now convalescent, and is staying at ] Hi glide ro Park, Berkshire. Lieutenant J Quart-ley left New Zealand with the : Main -Body as a. sergeant-major. Ho ; was wounded in Egypt before the New : Zealanders left for Franco. Bombardier J. A. Wilson, mentioned 1 as having received the M.S.M. for valuable services in France, is n son of ; 'Mr J. Wilson, of 31. Constable street, and grandson of Mr Alexander Wilson. Before enlisting he was employ- j ed in the Government Printing Office, and after three years’ continuous ser- J vice in Egypt and France was wound* : ed and sent to England. I

A presentation took place at tiff ; Union Brewery on Monday afternooS I to Private J. M. Lloyd, Christchurch, ; who is leaving with the 48rd P - ; lpic<> ! mont. On behalf of his fellow-employ-ees Mr W. Watson, the brewer, pro- j Rented Private Lloyd with a wristlet : watch suitably inscribed, wishing him 1 bon voyage and a safe and quick return. Private Lloyd is the 19th era- i ployee of the Union Brewery who has ■ survived the test of training. The death of Mr John Downey, exsuperintendent of ’the Seaview Hospital, Hokitika, occurred suddenly in Wellington a few day* ago. Retiring from the Public Service 18 ‘ ’ months ago, the deceased (fentlemah settled in Wellington. He asserted his influence . on matters affecting the Oatholxj Church, of which he was a member during his residence in Hokitika, which extended over a period of 40 years. He leaves a widow and two sons, one of whom, left New Zealand with .the Main Body.

On Monday Mr and Mrs . Austen Seeley (Lyttelton) received advice *Aat Private Ashley Seeley, their , only son, had been killed in France. Private Seeley, who was twenty-three years ol ; age, was a member of the Twenty-sec- ; ond Reinforcement. H© was wounded ; a short time ago, but returned to the firing-line and was. wounded m trench operations. His parents received a letter a few days ago fram Lieutenant Sinclair, of Knikoura, highly extolling the young soldier, and statin" that the pair were the only two . New Zealanders then alive m the platoon to which they belonged. Advice was received by Captain W. Atwell, group commander at Bangtora. that his youngest brother, Captain A bert Edward Atwell, M.C., has been killed in action in France, while fighting with the Australians, lac late otficer had been two and a-half yearsa the front, filling the position ofad]u- . taut to- the 35th Battalion, A.I.F. H* was 35 years of a ,S e ', an f I ?f ves f ?fficera ow and a child m Australia Officers , who have passed through Royal Military College, Duntroon will remember Captain Atwell as thenr , linrr and machine-gun instructor, a post , i -on which he held for three years. ' Corporal Maurice Wyndham Shepherd, reported mortally wounded on ■ July 18th, in action in France, was tho • eldest surviving son of the la „e Major T V. Shepherd, of Papakur.v He letb with his brother in the Nineteenth Reinforcement, and afterwards joined ; the Third New Zealand Rifle Brigade. Prior to enlisting he was a member ot the College Rifles, and was farming 8» Manawaru. His'brother Tom, who was reported dangerously ill from wounds received two days previously, » now out of danger and improving. He was an old King’s College boy, and was also engaged in farming.

Tho new arrivals at Barrett’s Hotel include Messrs. Delaney and Haycock /Palmerston North), Mr and Mrs J. Duder (Auckland), Mrs and Mks Ryder (Levin), Mr H. Lctham (Wellington), Lieutenant Kemp, Mr Hanson (Waiouru), Mr J. Harvey (Taranaki), and Mr and Mrs O’Brien (Christchurch). The guests at the n-mpiro include: Mr Herdman (Wanganui), Mr and Mrs Bond (Nelson), Mrs Sellars (Master-tor), Mr and Mrs Hayne (Mastorton), Mr Hosking (Whangarei), Mr R. Martin (Christchurch), Mr A. K. Chrisp (Gisborne), Mr J. B. Murdoch (Hawera). Mr and Mrs Garrard (Lyttelton), nut Mr B, Aineo (Dunedin).