PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14588, 17 December 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL.

;'of S?f? c TnY- O M-- String«*. M.M., soft of Mr J. A. Stringer, of Nelson has 1 cSnduS'fiS^ th° [■.Trivato W. Flowers, Mho was killed & in action on November 22ncl was thft > youngest son of the late Mr' and Airs Zealand with the Twenty-fourth Keinrorcemcnts and was only in the tieki - 24 hours when he was killed. ■ , Mrs H. Simpson, of Cambria, street > has received advice that her brSe? J: James Nelson was killed in artion ft J 1' ■14^ h- He left with the 1W !> nS wn f IKp°rCement ?' and had seen » ,: good deal oi service in France. ' ir^h Ei J- Reed, the well-known ,j traveller for the Wellington Woollen ['Company was drawn in the last bal- ' lot, and has been passed "A"—first- ■ class. He will go into camp at the , beginning of April.

.Robert Watson received advieo on W that his eldest son, Lieuten+u il Watson, who was reported the other day to have been severely wounded, was making satisfactory pr<K §rcss.

We understand that the .Motueka Harbour Board has oifered the vacant appointment of harbourmaster and wharfinger to Mr P. G. Moifatt, who has accepted it, and will combine the duties with those of the secretaryship, which he has held for several years

Mr Joynton Smith, the now Lord Mayor of Sydney (Labour), was a former resident of Wellington. In his■• younger' days ho was in the service of thb1. Union bteam Ship Company. Leaving the sea he settled m Wellington and becamo the licensee of the Post Office Hotel. He Sf,,^* *P fydney, where he became tne landlord of the- Hotel Arcadia He is one of the most enterprising men in *ew South; Wales, and Jias been highly successful^ m business. Ho owns I great deal of property, and is largely interested m joint stock companies For some years past he naa had a racecourse of his own. He i* a member of the ]\ew South Wales Legislative Council, and a great supporter of sport. His wife is a so-an ex-New Zealander. As Miss Nellie Parkes, daughter of Mr Parkes, who used to keep the Newtownttotel she was prominent in amateur operatic circles in Wellington. "n'aceur