PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 27, 1 June 1915, Page 3

PERSONAL.

Captain ('. Xel.son, of the 15th Ftinsars, formerly of the New Zealand Forces, lias been wounded in France. Sir James Fairfax has been appoint-! r I'd president of the National Art Gal- '■> Icry. states a Sydney cablegram. .Mr C!illics, the well-known New Zea-j land golfer ,has been appointed thief ; sin- of a Belgian Held hospital.j • states a London cabelgram. .Mr IHliot King, j-oimgsst sin of Mr ~. and Mrs Newton King, leaves on Friday for Auckland, en route t > England, where it is his intention to ouali- -' fy for a commission in the army. He will sail by the Riverina <»n luesday, and at Sydne\ lie will join 'he P. and 0. boat Egypt for Home. The promotion of Sergeant Charles Arthur Ford (son of Mr Charles Ford, of New Plymouth, to record clerk in London, has now been confirmed. He r left with the First Fxpeditionary Force as a trooper in the Wellington Mounted itillo. As a good all-round athlete ho was very popularly known in Taranaki. For some years he was .' with Mj'ssr- iStandisii and Staudish, ~ and bitterly with Mr T. !>. Crump, I solicitor, Fltham.