PERSONAL.

Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 225, 3 October 1916, Page 5

PERSONAL.

"..' S?i:gt.-Major A. C. Pigou, of Spring .Greek r - has (been appointed; 2nd;: He-u----tioiiaiit on' probationV vand 'posted tii •p'" Company, 21st Reinforcements. Serjgt.-Major Pigou recently returned from the-front. .■":'.-.<•■■■■■■ -'S :-• ■■"-'

Last Sunday \yas tlio sixty-first axi-niversai-y of tlio marriage- of Mr and Mrs 'Frederick Liley, of Nelsoii. 'The aged couple, who are both, hale and. hearty, were entertained las]t nta. social gathering, of. relatives-'and-friends. Mr Liley is a yetei-an «)f this Crimean and Maori wars.

Mr M. A. Ingles, yrho recently etilisted, and is set down for the1 22ncr Reiriforccments,, fought on GallijSoli,' where he wa"s wounciod. Ho receu'o^ his discharge from the Forces, and has been 1 arming in PelorwsvSound.; Now. that he ha^ fully recovered* fromthe effects of his...wound, ho is ready to "do his bit" a second time. '

!. In a. letter road at the meeting :nt: the'Wairau Harbor Board last in'glyi' Captain I. M. Barr, tho harbormaster, thanked the Board for granting him permission to offer his services, to tho Royal Naval: Reserve. He added that the Admiralty Commissionersi accepted his offer- on con■dition that the Near Zealand Govern- ! ment allowed him to go forward. '.'% seemed, however that the Government had forbidden all certificated mariners and engineers to enrol for foreign, .service. lie hoped to bo able to give the Board. '«'efmite inforvnci-1 turn within, the- next few,days. " .Leave of absence was -granted, by' the Wairat: Harbor Board:last night to Mr 0. A- Eckfoi-d, 'a member of that body, who took his .dpp<artiu'»v : from Blenheim with, the Marlb'orough quota for the Twenty-first. Reinforcements. Speaking, to the motioii the ■chairman- said that the crenei al appreciationwith which , Mr. lickford's

' action in enlisting was regarded. was? [ associated with a senso of loss, for I that gentleman's connection wifh'ther Bojirct \m a highly valued-one. 3iti 'lickford ha d throughout the war been, keen to serve his Iving and-country at the;front, and would have g<we ioi'vvard at a much earlier date if Jie■3iad not been, detained by pressing: business responsibilities. Whei: Oaptata Eckford, his father, was abls to» relieve him of his civil duties^he immediately set out. for the firing line. Many friends would wish him God-

speed and a safe return