PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 91, 18 August 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr R. Masters returned from Wellington ,last night.

Mrs I'. .Young. of Fenton Street. 'Stratford, has received' word that her second son. Sergeant Tom Young, has left Sydney with the 12th Regiment of the Ith Light Horse, in which he holds the rank of Bandmaster.

Mis Ellen Flynn, of Te Wera. has received word from the Defence Department that her son John had been wounded at the Dardanelles. Her son. Maurice, is still well and fit on the trenches, while another son, James, is leaving with the “Trents.”

Prior to the meeting of the Borough Council last evening, a resolution of sympathy with the relatives of the late soldiers Terence Foley, Dudley Cameron, 0. Cleary, and \V. G. Malone, was carried on the motion of His Worship the Mayor (Mr J: W. Boon).

Mr J. McCluggage returned from

Australia to Stratford last evening. He says that the weather in Queensland was very warm, but the drought made it very trying on account of the dnststorms. Mr McCluggage was in Sydney, where, he states, the people are taking tin* war far more seriously than in New Zealand.