PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 52, 1 July 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr (J. A. Robbie, headmaster of the Patea District High School, and Mr Foden, of the Bank of Xew Zealand staff, have received orders to leave for Trentham on July 10. The former has been appointed «"• sergeant on probation and the latter a corporal.

Mr .Malcolm Boss, the New Zealand official war correspondent, arrived at Port Said late on the evening of -May 17. His first letter has come to hand dated May 20 (states the Press Association), and was written to catch the mail leaving for New Zealand next daw and. of course, he had then

had no opportunity of going to the actual front.

Mr Harper Lepper, of Lepperton, has received word that his son, Lieutenant Harper Lepper, was gazetted to the (ith Battalion Middlesex Regiment on .May 12, and is now at Chatham barracks drilling recruits. Last week Mr Lepper received a cable stating that his son, Private Charles Lepper. who is .supposed to be at the Dardanelles, was safe and well.

Advice has been receive! that MiLeo Myers, a well-known citizen of Auckland (and brother of Mr Arthur M. .Myers, M.P.), who has been resident in London for the last two or three years, and who enlisted as a private in the Sportsmen's Battalion attached to the Royal Fusiliers, has now been appointed first lieutenant in the 18th King's Royal Rifles.

At the annual meeting of the NewPlymouth Club, held on Wednesday evening, reference was made by tin* president, Mr W. M. Ewing, to tho death in action at the Dardanelles of Private Leslie Sole. Mr Leslie Sole had been an esteemed member of the institution, and deep regret was felt at his death. He had. however, given his life in a noble cause. Members of the club, had thought it a fitting memento to have their late comrade's enlarged photograph placed in the club's rooms. During the remarks of the president, members of the club remained standing.

Rev. W. A. Butler (lately vicar of Holy Trinity Church, Stratford, recently of Waihi, and now transferred to the Church of Epiphany, Auckland), arrived in Stratford by the 1 mail train last night. He will attend tho scout meeting in the evening, and will pay a visit of inspection to St. Mary's School. Mr Butler was met at the railway station by a large number of old friends, and a squad of scouts, under Scout Skoglund, of which he had been scout master. Each cadet was greeted with a "shake-hands," Mr Butler leaves for New Plymouth on Friday.