PERSONALS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume V, Issue 1309, 24 April 1918, Page 2

PERSONALS.

On Tuesday evening, by command of his Majesty the King, an investiture was held at Government House, Wellington, when the Governor-General presented to Surgeon-General 1?. S. F. Henderson, K.H.P., the insignia of Companion of the Bath, and to Colonels C. M. Gibbon, 11. E. Pottor, N. P. Adams, Lieutenant-Colonel L. E. Barnett and Major Norton Francis, the insignia of Companion of St. Michael and St. George. His Excellency also handed Miss H. Maclean the. badge of the First Class of the Eoyal Eed Cross decoration, and Miss L. Bird and Mrs P. Mitchell the badge of the Second Glass of the Eoyal Eed Cross decoration.

Mr R. W. K. McLeunan was a passenger from the north by the Mararoa this morning.

Mr L. J. Watkins, of Wellington, was a passenger from the north by yesterday's ferry boat. j

Mr P. A. Aiken, general manager of the F.S.S. Company, arrived this morning from Wellington. Dr Sadlier, Bishop of Nelson, arrived in Christchurch yesterday, and is staying »at Warner's Hotel. Mr F. I'ivaui, of Feilding, chairman of the Wanganui Board of Education, is visiting Christchurch, Lieut. E. W. J. Millton, who has been appointed aide-de-camp to his Excellency the Governor-General, left for Wellington last evening.

Mr P. Phillips, managing director of The Bristol Piano Company, left for Wellington last evening to attend a conference of representatives of the mus'c trade.

Sir William Fraser, Minister of Public Works, arrived from Wellington yesterday, and went on to Hanmer Springs. lie will probably return to Christchureb to-day.

Mr Peter Barr, of Dunedin, who is a member of the Defence Expenditure Commission, was severely attacked by illness in Wellington on Saturday, and was removed to a private hospital. Mr W. Harwood, of Aylesbury, has received advice that his son, Rifleman F. W. Harwood, was admitted to hospital in England, on April 15, suffering from gunshot wound in the head. Mrs E. Hill, 3124 Tuam Street, has received further cabled advice that her son, Private Henry E. nill, who was wouided in the thigh in France on March 28, has been transferred to a hospital in England.

Mr W. Plaskett, of Fernside, has been advised of the death in action on March 29 of his youngest son, Private Walter Plaskett. He was 30 years of age, and was farming at the time of enlisting in the 30th Reinforcement. The Prime Minister has been advised that his son, Major. F. G. Massey, has recovered sufficiently to bu removed from France to hospital in England. The bullet has been extracted from his wound, so that his complete recovery is only a matter of time.

Private G. 11. Saunders, seriously ill, is a son of Mr and Mrs Thomas Saunders, of East Eyreton. Private Sauiders was born at East Eyreton 22 years ago, and educated at the local school and Christchurch Technical College. He subsequently spent several years farming in the district before enlisting with the 18th Reinforcement. He was badly gassed some time ago. Private Daniel Harvey, of the 16th Reinforcement, killed in action, was: a son of Mr and Mrs Robert Harvey, of Southbridge, and was 23 years of age. He w r as born and educated at Southbridge, and was employed in Christchurch, where he was well known ns a member of the Marists Football Club and the Avon Rowing Club. His brother, Robert, was killed at Messines last year. Mr T. Henderson, of 19 Caledonian Road, has received advice that his third son, Private William Henderson, who left New Zealand with the Specialists of the 27th Reinforcement, was kilhd in action on April 5. Private Henderson was educated at the Normal School, and shortly after leaving joined the Post and Telegraph Department, where he was employed as telegraphist at the time of his enlistment. He was on the staff of the Christchurch, Oam-| aril, Ashburton, and Kaiapoi branches. Captain Frank Nuttall, R.F.C., who was recently awarded the Military Cross, is the fourth son of Mr and Mrs C. Nuttall, of Caledonian Road, St. Albans. Ho was in England when the war broke out, aud joined the Royal Flying Corps, first as a mechanic, and later as a pilot. He served in France, Egypt, and later in Mesopotamia, where he won the decoration for conspicuous gallantry and daring when in enemy territory. Seeing another machine driven down by hostile fire he glided to earth in his single seatcr under heavy fire, dispersing the enemy with his machine-gun. He took the stranded pilot on board, speedily rose in the air, and though still under fire, got safely away. By his prompt and courageous action he rescued a comrade who would otherwise have been taken prisoner.