PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14395, 24 April 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mrs Wildman, Port Nelson, has been ac"vised that^ as the result of a Court of Inquiry, her son, F: C. W'ildman, previously reported missing, si now reported killed in action in September last.

' The Rev. G. T. Brown, M.A., minister of the Masterton Presbyterian Church, who was drawn.in the-military ballot recently^ has decided not id countenance an appeal on his behalf, an,d will, if he passes the Medical Board, enter .camp as a

. Dean Weeks, in response to a request from the .New Zealand co-operating e\ecutive of the Australasian Students' Christian movement, is conducting special meetings at Wellington this week for Victoria University College students. The Dean will return to Nelson the end of the week, and officiate at the Cathedral next Sunday, the 29th hist.

At the conclusion of the gathering at the Church Steps yesterday afternoon, Lieutenant-R. Watson was presented by Captain vßurn, on behalf of the Defence Department, with the Colonial Auxiliary Officers' Decoration, which entitles him to the letters T.D. after his pame. Lieutenant Watson has. been entitled to the decoration since 1901.

The Rev. J. Patersbn, of Christchurch, has received advice that his brother, Second-Lieutenant Malcolm Paterson, serving with the Australian forces, was killod in action in France on April 9th. Lieutenant Paterson, who was 23 years of age, left Australia with the. early rreiiifojceme'nts, and after seeing considerable '" -service in Gallipoli, was some months ago wounded, in France. Upon recoy.oring he returned to the front.

Mrs. \Mahoney, of Lyndhurst street, Westport, has received & telegram conveying the news of the death of her husband, Mr. J. J. Mahoney, who was killed m action on the western front on March 28th. Deceased leSfc: the Dominion with the main body of the New Zealand Tunnelling Corps. He was formerly employed as a miner at Millerton.