PERSONAL ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 30 March 1925, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr and Mrs Robert Wellwood, of Hastings, are on a visit to Masterton. Miss Kitty Carswell, of Bideford, who is an inmate of the private hospital, is progressing satisfactorily. A Press message from Christchurch says Dr. Telford, District Health Officer, having withdrawn his resignation, continues in the position. At the Masterton Football Club reunion on Saturday night, Mr lan Harvey was presented by the chairman with a handsome China drinking vessel, suitably inscribed. Mr. E. C. Evans, of the Masterton staff of Union Bank of Australia, has been temporarily transferred to Wanganui. He is succeeded in Masterton by Mr. L. W. Worsley, of Wellington. Prayers were offered at St. Matthew’s yesterday for the recovery of Mrs. T. May, who met with a motor accident in Hastings during the week. Mrs May is a daughter of Mr and Mrs Creswell, of Lansdowne. The many friends of Mrs .T. R. Welch, senior, of Lansdowne, who is at present with her daughter, Mrs J. P. Murphy, of Lower Hutt, will be pleased to hear that she is slowly recovering from her recent serious illness. Mr C. G. Porter, captain of the All Blacks, was given a hearty welcome home* in the Wellington South schoolroom on Saturday evening. The gathering, which took the form of a dance, was arranged by the committee and exscholars of the school (of which he- was one). The Governor-General 'has sent the following to Field-Marshal Birdwood on his promotion to the rank of FieldMarshal, and his appointment as Com-mander-in-Chief of India:—"The New Zealand Government and all your old comrades in New Zealand associate themselves with me in sending you the heartiest congratulations.”' His Excellency received the following reply from Field-Marshal Birdwood:-"! am deeply grateful for the very kind congratulations of your Government and my old New Zealand Expeditionary Force comrades, to whom I owe so much. 'Please inform them how much 1 appreciate all your kind thoughts now.”

A Delhi cable states that General Lord Rawlinson, Commander-in-Chief of the Army in India, is dead, after a short illness, and following an operation for appendicitis, at the age of 61. General Rawlinson was on Lord Roberts’s staff when Commander-in-Chief in India. He saw service in the Burma War, and went through the Khartoum campaign and the. South African' War. On October sth, 1914, he was given the Fourth Army Corps, and sent to Belgium to attempt the relief of Antwerp, a task which had become impossible. He took a prominent part in the final British advance from August, 1918, which gave the Allies the final victory on the Western Front. At the iinal distribution of honours he was raised to the peerage as Baron Rawlinson of Trent, and received a grant of £30,000. In 1919 he went to Northern Russia and withdrew the British forces from Archangel and Murmansk. In 0920 he went out to India as Com-mander-in-Chief. In that command he will be succeeded by Field-Marshal Sir William Birdwood.