PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14651, 4 March 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Brigadier-General H. E. Hart off Carterton, was recently wounded* and gassed in Flanders. "

«*?S A{ P ', Euraes, formerly in charge of the local branch of the Government vift"S^SS;^"*" 1611*. is °* »

Mark s, Wellington, has been ottered and has accepted the parish of the fiolv bepulchre, Auckland, rendered vacant by the death of the Rev. A. H ColvUe

A Press Association message announces .the death , at Auckland of Mr John Brown who was a director oi various Auckland companies.

A private letter received from Corporal -Dick" Sands, a we il-know U YVest Coast representative footballer stows that he has again distinguished himself at the front, winning a bar to the Military Medal which he won last year.

Lieutenant Ralph P. Worley has been promoted to the position of Battalion Intelligence Officer, and is now attached to Headquarters! Lieutenant Rupert Worley is acting as Assistant Director of Railways, and is also attached to Headquarters. Both officers are on the Western front.

Miss Constance Shields, daughter of Mr Joshua Shields, of this city, has addeu to-her successes in New Zealand University examinations by gaining the M.A. degree.

Mr R. H. Rainy, lately of Wanganui, who. takes up tne position here of Resident Engineer, Public Works Department, for Kelson and Marlborough, waa an inward passenger by the steamer on Saturday morning.

Advice hg^been received by Mr. William Black, of Gishora.^ that his sou Hugh has been awarded tr.e Military Meual for gallantry on the field of action. All Mr. Black's three sons are afc the front, the youngest boy, Roy, being only 17 years old when he eniisted.

The executive of the New Zealand Fruitgrowers' Federation has appointed Mr E. B. Izard 3 of Stoke, to represent the Nelson district on the' executive in place of Mr Arthur Allport, resigned. Mr Izard will hold office till May, when: the annual conference takes place.

The Rev. J. McCaw, of the Lower Hutt, has received news of the death, of his son, Peter Raukine McCaw, at No. 4 Stationar3' Hospital, France, on. February 26th. The lato Mr McUaw was wounded and gassed in June last and never recovered from the effects. Mr McCaw had entered the teaching profession and enlisted during the last year of his training at the Teachers'' Coliege and Victoria University College.;

News of Captain J. B. Hine, M.1% arrived by the last mail. Captain Hine, who is serving with the New Zealand mounted forces attached to the army now invading Palestine, was very severely wounded about lour nnionths ago,, one of his lungs being penetrated by a bullet. At the end of December he was still in hospital convalescing, but his injured lung was then reported to be healing splendidly.

Word has been received from the Minister of Defence that Lieutenant CH. Holmes, M.C., was wounded and gassed on the 19th inst. Lieutenant Holmes gained his Military Cross some months ago for gallantry in the field at Passchendaele. He was a member of the Eighteenth Reinforcements and attached to the 12th Nelson Company, Ist Canterbury Battalion. Prior .to going away_ with the forces Lieutenant Holmes was employed* in a legal firm at Christchurci1.

One of the survivors of the torpedoed New Zealand transport and training ship Aparima was Mr Maurice Mayo, ,who was an engineer on the ship. He is a son of Mr and Mrs H. A. Mayo, formerly of Nelson, and now of Mount Morgan, Queensland. Mr Maurice Mayo was previously in the employ of the Anchor Foundry Company, Nelson.. Writing from St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London, under date November 26th, he describes his escape, and the effect upon him of long immersion in cold water, and concludes: "My doctor is Sir John Broadbent, so you see 1 am in good hands. The Union Steam Ship Company have given us money and pay our board, so lam all right. We engineers have been yerv lucky: the only, one to perish was our chief, Mr Rogerson. We carried three deck officers, and two were drowned. Our poor cadets suffered the worst. Just fancy;, only 8 survivors out of 30, and most or them between 16 and 20 years of age* I am feeling all right now, and hope to be out soon. I have have had nine days in bed; the rest has done me good. We are to get a first-class passage out to New Zealand in a few weeks' time."'