PERSONAL NOTES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3987, 21 July 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL NOTES.

The sad news was received ye.vn-r day that Mr. H. Bradshaw, manage of "Mr. H. de Lautourds station at 'I Araroa, had succumbed to an attac of measles on Tuesday morning.

Mr H. A. King received advice from the Defence Department yesterday stating that Ins son, Private Cecil B. King, who was previously reported seriously ill with enteric, was now out of danger.

Private S. Beaufoy. who left Gisborne recently to join the Seventh Reinforcements, has been operated on at Wellington for appendicitis. . Private H. Beaufoy, his brother, is also invalided. suffering from pneumonia.

Mr 0. Lament Gurr, teach..-!* 01 singing, who has practised his profession *in Gisborne during the pa-* five and a-haif years, lias dect'l-.-1 '<•< settle at Auckland, and leaves’: or - northern capital by the s.s. \>. : * this morning. Mr and Mrs bv: have done much during their xt-jv . Gisborne to allure to ongntor. veckin music and lead the way. and : taste will bo all the bettor :or the r all too brief sojourn in . our J.xu.xt. Thev liave given their s--rv:c-'-freely for charitable and .pay-' movements, and the. best wi=:i-*- oi their many friends will go with t for success in their future carte:.

Mr E. H. Boyd, of the local staff of Messrs Booth". MacDonald and Co.. who has been Gisborne traveller xor the past three years, has been transferred to the Dunedin branch, and leaves to take up bis new .cut:c-= ry the s.s. Victoria this evening. Mr Boyd will be missed in rowing circles, having been an active member o: tne Gisborne Rowing Club for the past season. Mr Bofd has volunteered for the front, and boon accepted as medically fit, and when called .upon will join the Gisborne ouota or the N.Z. Expeditionary Force at Wellington. Nlr Boyd is the oSih memt-er of the Gisborne Rowing Club who has offered his services for the rront. A number of Mr Boyd s intimate mer.es asembled last evening and presented him with a handsome pocket-- wahet. in token of the esteem in which he is held by his friends in Gisborne.