PERSONAL

Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14265, 16 January 1920, Page 5

PERSONAL

Captain A. H. Burn, Ofilcer-Goin-ananding No. 4 Group, is at present an inmate of the Waikato Hospital. Consequent upon his election to Parliament, Mr E. J. Howard, M-P., .has resigned the secretaryship of the Canterbury General Labourers Union. Mr Howard has held the position for - •seven years. Mr J. I. Fox, organiser and secre- | tarv of the British Section of the New : Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Associa- , tion. is expected to return to New , Zealand by the Ruapehu at the end ot , this month- j Dr. Guy Scholefield, the well-known journalist, accompanied by Mrs Scholefield and family, returned to Wellington by the Kigoma after several years , residence in London. During the wai : period Dr. Scholefield was responsible for valuable work . j General Bootfi will start on February | 9 on a tour of America, Canada and Australasia. He will be accompanied by. Commissioners Lamb, Hitching and / Lawley. They will inquire into the Salvationists’ local conditions and the prospects of immigration. Lieutenant J. C. Holland, Adjutant to the 4th Waikato Mounted Rifles, will be demobilised at the end of the present month, as it is his intention uO take up farming pursuits. Lieutenant Holland has been stationed at Hamilton for three and a-half years. } Dr Gilruth, formerly Chief Veterin- ; arian in the Agricultural Department of j New Zealand, and ex-Director of Lie . Northern Territory of Australia, arrived • in Auckland yesterday by the Wairuna. j Dr.. Gilruth has been on a combined pleasure and business trip to America | •and the Continent, and is now' on his i way back to Australia. He will probably remain in Auckland until he can -secure a passage to Sydney. Amongst the officers who returned by the Kigoma were Colonel Stitt, D. 5.0., M.G., Canterbury Regiment; ■Lieutenant-Colonel Mead, D. 5.0., Canterbury Regiment; Captain P. JO’Dowd, Wellington Regiment; Captain Wass, A.S.C., Major Beamish, Major S. W. Brooker, M.C., Major R. A. R. Lawry, Lieutenant Manning, assistant M. E. officer.

One cl the most expert wireless,, '' operators in the world, Arthur Sawyer, of New .Zealand, will go to the Antarctic with the Cope expedition. In the earlier days he was with the New Zealand . Telegraph Department. Then he went W ith Sir Douglas Mawson’s wireless plant to Macquarie Island. When wir came, 'he was unable to pass the re-* cruiting officers at Home, so he went to India, where they knew a thing or two about an army’s requirements, and did strenuous work with the wireless in Mesopotamia. Several allotments of positions *o officers of the New Zealand Staff Corps, who qualified in the recent training at Trentham camp are announced. In No. i Group, Captain A. H. Burn will remain as Officer-Commanding. Lieut. R. D. McFarlane, M.C., has been transferred from Auckland as Adjutant to the 16th (Waikato) Regiment. Lieut. M. E. Johnson, M.G. and bar, of Whangarei, will come to Hamilton as Adjutant to the 4th (Waikato) M.R., a position rendered vacant by the resigntion of Lieutenant Holland. The death occurred on Tuesday at the Waikato Hospital of __ Mrs W. Ingham, the wife of Mr W. Ingham, a well-known resident of Te Awamutu. ;The late Mrs Ingham, who had en. good health previously, had been for a few days an inmate of the nursing home a £ Te Awamutu. She became seriously ill on Tuesday, and was taken to the hospital at Hamilton,where she died at 7.30 p.m. The late Mrs Ingham was a war bride, Mr ) gham having recently returned from the front. An infant son is left.