PERSONAL

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14544, 24 October 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL

Captain J. G. Coatos, M.P. for Ksipara, i> reported to have been slightly wounded, but remaining with his unit.

The nominee of Victoria University College for the Rhodes ScholarshiD this year is H. A. Mackenzie, son of Proiessor Mnckenzie. He graduated B.A. last year, winning a Senior University Scholarship in both Latin and French. He has been in camp since January. He has won a commission, and is leaving with the THrty-fmst Reinforcements.—Press Association,

-A very old resident- oi: Opunake passed away last week in the New Plymouth Hospital, in the person of .Mr Robert Warner. Mr Warner was born in Nelson seventy years ago, and went to Opunake from the Wimganui district, where he had been skeen-fannme some 28 years ago.

Mrs McLaren, of Port Nelson, has received word that her brother, Private Roy Hadfield, was reported wounaca on the 14th iust.

Privates J. Sangster, 11. Eban, and Moore returned to Nelson yesterday, rrom active service.

i'emp.-Major Leonard James Ford, lulled.in action,, was a well-known resident jf the Waimea, and was' formeriy' a lieutenant'of the old Waimea Katies He left New Zealand with the Canterbury Regiment as lieutenant in 1915, and subsequently received lus majority on the field, lie leaves a widow, who resides in the district.

Colonel Baillie, M.L.0., ha-s receive': news by cablegram that his second son, Private T. D. Baillie, was killed in action in Flanders on October 4tu. Last year he gave up farming at Otorohonga to join the forces, and left New Zealand in January last with the 20th Reinforcements, his only sou going with him, in the same company. He is also survived by his wife and a daughter, Nurse Baillie, of the Wellington Hospital staff.

Flighir-Liqutenant W. Ei. Coates who is now believed to have been killed having previously been reported missing was brought down by anti-aircraft gunnre on July 22nd, and his machine tell behind the enemy lines. Lieutenant .Coates is a brother of Captain J. G. Coates, M.P., and is a member,of the iirm of G. and R. Coates. "Matakohe

Hie Prime Minister has received a beautiful silver salver from the Old Country, on which is tho following inscription: "Presented to the .Right Hon. William Ferguson Massey, a patron of the British Empire Producers' Organisation, by the .Executive Committee in recognition of the great services he has rendered the cause of Empire development." On the" plate are scratched the signatures of the committee.

The death occurred, suddenly, at Dunedin last Friday of Mr Charles Frederick Greenslade, well-known as one of the founders of Speight and Co's brewery. Mr Greenslade suffered from a serious illness a few years ago as the result of a poisoned foot, but after h's recovery he appeared to enjoy remarkably good health for a man.of his age. and he led a very active life. About 4 p.m. on Friday in his office he conferred with the accountant, and half an hour later he expired, presumably fj- o ' m heart failure.