PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLV, Issue 10432, 10 November 1919, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Sir, Joseph Ward is at present -rlsf** tag Cliristchurch. Mr W. Drake, who has been stationed at"the Timaru Tolegraph Office for tho past 22 years, has left to'take up tha position of postmaster of Sumner, Mr W. P. Griffith lias been appoint* ed to represent tho Napier Borough, Council on the Hawke's Bay Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, in place of tlio late Mr F. Moeller. The Prime Minister left Wellington for his electorate on Saturday. He proposes to address his constituents at Waiuku. Mr Maeseywas accompanied north by the Hon. J. G, Coates, A Press Association message from Dunedin announces the death at yueenstown on Saturday morning of the Rov. Alexander Whyte, Presbyterian minister, of Port Chalmers. The death occurred in the ifnstertonhospital of Private A. M. Bannister, son of Mr and Mrs John Bannister, of Longbush. Deceased was 25~years of age, and saw much fighting in*France. Dr U. J. Tillyard, D.ScT F.LS., F.E.S.. a well-known Australian entomologist, arrived at Auckland from Sydney by the Niagara. He baa gone to Rotorua, where he will conduct investigations into the causes of tnw deterioration of trout. Lieutenant Ross, of Auckland, who returned from active servioe recently, went to London and offered his service* to the Admiralty, and was at once given a sub-lieutenant'e commission, R.N.K. Later he was lieutenant on HJM.S. Himalaya and was afterwards promoted to senior engineer. Mr A. L. Watson. Auckland manager* for the Vacuum Oil Company Proprietary, waa farewelled by the etaft last week it being his intention to leave for 4o United States and Great Bri. tain early in the new year on business: interests of his own, for which purpos* he resigned his position. - ■ » ■ ■ Major-General Edward W..JD. Ghay* toj, who is an aide-de-camp to the King, was received bv His Majesty, at Balmoral Castle on September sth, wihen the King conferred uponjum tha honour of knighthood' and invested Jiim! with the insignia of a Knighi Oomfaaiw der of the Order of St. Michael and pb George.Mx Daniel James, a well-ihowK Murchison died suddenly a few days ago. He was visiting ei neighbour, and was sitting down, tolling, when he fell forward, expiring in a few minutes- He was a eon of tha late Mr James Levi James, of B 3 V*Jley, Wakefield, was sixty-nine years of Wakefield,* .sixty-nine years of ago, and unmarried. Mr Herbert F. Wood, tho well-known tenor, and secretary of the Wellington Orphans' Club, who so successfully played the tenor role of HanH-Poo.in last week's production of "Tho Mikado," received a very nigh compliment at the final performance of tho season on Saturday night. A laurel Breath was handed to him from the audience as a mark of appreciation of his artistic performance. Major T. M. Wilkes. M. 0., New Zea* and Staff Corps, who is at present in Wellington, is an oflioer who saw varied service in centres ofwar. After serving with Eis regiment, Major(then captain) Wilkes was attached to the Royal Air Force, and soon became a dashing and daring pilot. After serving in this arm of the service, he rejoined the New Zealand Division, and oocupied several important positions. He received the Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry in the field, and was one of the most popular offioers of-the Now Zealand Btaff Corpe.

Captain Woods, N.Z.S.C., who - returned to New Zealand by the Paparoo, and left for tho south last week, .has «oen considerable active eernce—-w tho South African campaign and tho war recently ended. Captain Woods specialised in musketry, and was looked upon as one. of tho most *onipoi»t>t> Instructors of the brigade to which ho was attached. Throughout the campaign ho filled many appointment* with credit and distinction. Captain Woods originally belonged to the 3rd Drugoon Guards, one of the ' craclc cavalry regiments of the Imperial forces. His passes, in all the special Instructional classes to which, ho Was sent have always been "first-class, •ffiti distinction." A famous French surgeon, Major F. 0. Cassian. Legion of Honour, holding the Croix de Guerro, the Serbian White Eagle, and sis other notable, decorations, arrived at Wellington.by the Kia Ora from Homo on Saturday, Major Cassian, who has had four years' war-experience-in.'the Balkans, and who has been right through the Great War, is ou his way back to Tahiti to be demobilised. As no other medical officer was on board, he did not leave the ship when she called at Tahiti, and wont with the remainder of'6oo French troops who embarked at Havre ~ for Papeete, Tahiti, Suva, and; Noumea. I He will leave Wellington' by""lho Tofua, .which is sailing to-morrow for Tahiti, When requested to relate eoine ftf his war experiences to a. reporter . losti night, Major Cassian politely informed the interviewer that he preferred -to have his deeds left out of print. ■ Mr P. A. Mercer, son of Mr and Mrs C. W. Mercer, of Kingsland, who died at Auckland a few days ago, was one of four sons who served during the war. Ho left with the Australian Ireinforcemonts- in July, 1915, and s&w service in Egypt, and subsequently in t'rance up to Messines. In that fight there were six men in a dug-out, and as a result of a shell which burst right overhead three of them were killed outright, t;vo othors died on the way to the hospital, and deceased was evacuated to the base hospital, suffering from wounds in the head and elsewhere. He got over to England, and during ;m air raid, while ho was still in -hospital clothes, he developed bad shell shock, which the doctors said w:is in - his system since his awful experience in the duc-out. He returned to Australia, and was discharged medically' unfit in January, 1917. He re-attested with the Now Zealand forces ab-rut August of the same year, oml since then he had an attack of inflnoruau. .and--bis shell shock, which had never really loft him, showed ita effects in a pronounoed manner..- •'

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