PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 99, 27 August 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Sir 11. J. Miller, M.L.C., has been granted leave of absence for the re- ' * ll!,;

Air R. H. Nolan expects to leave Hawera next week on his return to England, going by way of Java s*ad the East generally.

Chaplain-Captain Blamires (brother of the Rev. E. 0. Blamires, Hawera) : has gone to the Dardanelles to take the place of Chaplain-Major Luxford, who had his leg amputated.

The gradual improvement in tin* health of Or. H. W. Cleary, Raman Catholic Bishop of Auckland, is being maintained. A cablegram to this effect was received from Sydney this week.

Mr Copeland, butter-maker at tho New Zealand Dairy Association's central factory. Xgaruawahia, has been appointed butter-maker for the North Taranaki Dairy Company, and Mr While, of Feilding, has been appointed to the casein department.

Mr F. X. Fussell has been selected for the Non-Commissioned* Officers' Camp for the"9th reinforcements and 3rd reinforcements Trentham Regiment* and has to report at the camp on Tuesday, 7th September. Consequently he will be leaving on Monday week.

The tickets for the .'{-tier cake, which was the prize for a weightguessing competition, held at the conversazione in the Parish Hall, Regan Street, last evening, were sold in great numbers, and the guesses were widi» and various. The cake weighed I2lb SJozs.. and three competitors tied for first place with the same weight, namely. 12|-lhs. These were: J. W. Bond, Winch.

Mr \Y. Morant Bayly had a severe seizure while in his office VeKtectlaY, and it is stated, in falling, cut himself severely, probably on the corner hi an iron lender. Dr. Paget was called, and Mr Bayly was removed to his home, it was found necessary

to put several stitches in the wound. friends will be glad to learii that Mr Bayly is progressing quite satisfactorily, though it will doubtless ho some time before lie is able to resume control of his business. The list of casualties from the Dardanelles to-day includes the names of two young men who are well-known in the district. Reginald Sole, brother of the late Ln nee-Corporal Leslie Sole, of Now Plymouth, and cousin of Mr C. I). Soh>. of Stratford, ha s fellen, and Clyde Kennedy, who wa- ; employed for some time at -Messrs ttroeklebank's. Stratford, before enlisting, and whose parents live at Inglewood, is also numbered with the slain.. k ■_ • ■■