PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10211, 22 February 1919, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Major W. C. Finnis, New Zealand iitaff Corps, was among the officers whp returned by the Ruapehu.

Mr E. Salmond, of the firm of Salmond and will leave for America and. Jingland by the Niagara nest month.

The Hon. D. H. Guthrie, Minister for Lands, is due back in Wellington, from his tour in the South Island, on Sunday morning next.

Lieutenant - Colonel Guy Powles, C.M.G., D. 5.0., who went through the Palestine campaign with the New Zealand Division, has advised his relatives in Wellington that he Bailed for New Zealand trom Liverpool on. the 7th inst.

Major-Genleral Sir Alfred {Robin, Commandant of .the New Zealand Forces, and Surgeon-General R. K. JS. Henderson, of Medical Services, are paying an official visit to the Nelson and Marlborough districts. They expect to return to "Wellington, on Tuesday.

Mr R. S. Galbraith, of the district office of the Department of Lands, has been appointed Chief Surveyor and Commissioner of Grown Lands in Westland. Mr Galbraith is succeeded by "Mr W. T. Morpeth, of Wellington, at present in charge of the ltuid transfer branch of the department.

Advice has been received from Medser, Dunedin, that Rifleman Lancelot Douglas Miller, a discharged soldier, died at tho Dunedin Hospital on Thursday, February 20th. Ho was thirty years of age, and single, his next-of-kin being his brother, William i James Miller. Orchard Leigh, Main [road, Green Island.

Advice; was received yesterday of the death, after an operation, of Mr J. Plimmer, engineer of the Lyttelton Harbour Board's dredge. The late Mr Plimmer, who was a native of Wellingand had many friends here, was the eldest son of Mrs H. Plimmer, and' the late Mr Henry Plimmer, for many years a senior offioer in tho Postal Department.

The Rev. W. 8. Watson, M.A., of the Presbyterian Church, is the first to return of four of the Church's chaplains who have won the Military Cross on. service. The others are the Revs. D. C, gerron, H. Clarke, and W. McLean. The iEev. Mr Herron has also a bar to the' Cross. The Rev. Mr Watson' went to the front practically straight from Knox College,* Duriedin.

Lieutenant F. W. Matthews, 2nd Canterbury Battalion, and late secretary to the Minister for Defence (the Hon. Sir James Allen), returned by [the Ruapebu from London yesterday. Lieutenant Matthews, who is. in excellent health, left New Zealand with the 22nd Reinforcement in February, 1917, ! and after a period of training in Sling Camp crossed to France, where he remained serving with the New Zealand Division until the signing of the Ar« imistice.

Mr W. H. Morton (city engineer), who leaves shortly for England, will proceed from New Zealand to Vancour ver by the Niagara on March 28th. Subsequently he will visit: Seattle, Portland (Oregon), and San Francisco, and will travel east via the big inland centres of the United States. From New York he will go to Canada, where he will visit Quebec, Ontario, 1 and Montreal, sailing from Montreal to England. After a tour of the chief cities of the United Kingdom, he will go to the Continent, catching a homeward boat at Naples'.

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