PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 9, 11 May 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr Henri Verhrugghen has accepted the directorship of the new Sydney Conscrvatorium of Music.

Air Alex. Hyams, of the Royal Fusiliers, who was killed in action in Flanders, is a son of Air Frank Hyams, formerly of Diunedijn, and grandson of the late All' Bendix Hnllenstein.

Lance-Corporal Edgar Ogilvie, son of Mr W. P. Ogilvie, of Auckland, was in the Fiuted States when war began and volunteered through the British Consul and was sent to join the Canadian regiment. Yesterday his father received a telegram regretting that his son had been killed in action.

The name of Private H. G. Fcaron appearing in the list of wounded at the Dardanelles is no other than the popular “Jim” Fearon, brother of Mr Barney Fearon, and one of last year’s seniors in the Stratford bootha 11 Club. “Jim’s” many friends hero will anxiously await more definite news of the nature of his wounds.

Mr E. Hassett, who was for several months past a popular and painstaking member of the platform staff on the Stratford Eaihvay Station and who is at present stationed at Waitotara, will shortly leave the railway service. It is understood he has secured an interest in a threshing combine in the Milton (5.1.) district, and will again try his fortune in the South.

Brigadier W. J. Hoare, of the Salvation Army, will arrive in Stratford to-morrow morning, and will conduct a children’s service at 3 p.m. in the Army Hall, and also a public meeting at 8 p.m. The Brigadier is the National Young People’s secretary for New Zealand, and is travelling in their interests. Brigadier Hoare also a fully commissioned chaplain, being a captain of the New Zealand Territorials, and in that capacity attends camp at various periods. The New Zealand Government were the first to officially recognise the Salvation Army officers in this way. i