PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 5, 4 September 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr George Sangster has received a cable from his son. Trooper R. A. Sangster. stating that he is in hospital in London slightly wounded.

Mr Maurice Sexton, an ex Stratford Convent pupil, left for Auckland by the mail train this morning after spending a week's holiday in Stratford prior to proceeding to join the Reinforcements. •

Mr John Petrie, jeweller. Brandway, received a telegram from the Minister of Defence last evening stating that his son, Private John Petrie, had been wounded a second time. Private Petrie was wounded in the shoulder some time ago.

The name of 0. de W. Vanghan appears in the list of wounded to-day. Trooper Vaughan is well-known in Stratford where, he was employed for some years as teller in the Union Bank. He enlisted from New Plymouth and sailed with the 2nd Reinforcements in December last. He was a prominent member of the Tenuis Club in Stratford.

A cablegram was received by Mr W. T. Jennings. M.P., hum his von, Lieut. Harold Jennings, of tho Imperial Royal Field Artillery Force, stating that he was to leave England yesterday, and that his brother, Sergeant Jennings, of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, is in hospital at Malta, suffering from enteric. , Mr Jennings' other son, Edgar, wai recently killed in the trenches at Galhpoli by a bomb thrown from one of the Turkish trenches.

The headmaster of the Stratford School, Mr Tvrer. received thj.s morning a telegram stating that E. A. Wyllie has just succeeded in passing his final medical examination and had gained the degrees M. 8., C.B. Mr Wyllie's career has been a brilliant one. He joined the Stratford School in 19ft), won a Board's scholarship iii 191K5, a Queen's scholarship in ]<)o7. a Senior Scholarship in naki \ niveisity scholarship in 1910. He then left Stratford and joined tho University College in Dunedjm, and hasj completed his -lyediqal. .course r in,,,,.. a little less than'five years. ■We are a|«'i.VS filad to hear of an old Stratford Schoolboy's success, and eon-, grajulate Mr Wyllie qn the success ne hasiaohiereo , . ! "" i "" u *' ::;U

'Gunner 'Gc6rgV ; Tictor ' Wakefield 'Fa'ldor, news of whose death from enteric reached his parents on Mcnday last, left New /aland with the 2nd Reinforcements. He was ileirjy thr« ft months at Gallipoli. Biprn in 1893 at Adelaide, the late Gunner FaHer came, tp New /tfu.nd, wh-ne he wof*. ed'ueat'd X the School iJAun- tin edii)),,tho Wellington Distent:, High, oi Schbol,, and la tor at Wellington.i-Cq!-n;n lego|, where at : the age of 15 .ho secured til Si Iris '.matriculation...r.nd ai.yenr, i prior passed, the Junior Civil Service. ; In,:. 1910 he came with,his parents to Tara- u laki. where he took up farming, with crl Ins father, Mr ,7 !G.;:Fakhiiv «f the itw Rast Road. He was a fine keen lad > i with' .brightest .prospects before but he, felt that his duty was at the front. His keenness in military mattier's won for him the rank of Sergeant . in the Territorials. ' Mr and Mrs Falder have the sympathy of a large number of friends in their loss.

Mr G. A. Ma reliant, Cardiff, exchairman of the Stratford County Council, writes a s follows to the Mr \\. Hathaway, the present chairman: "1 shall feel it a privilege to assist in the memorial portrait of the. lato Colonel W. C. Malone. Mr Malone and T farmed adjoining properties more than 30 years ago, and our families were on terms of friendly intimacy: We served the old N'gairo (load Board district together, and the Stratford County, when it wa s first formed, arid afterwards; and wero at. different times associated in other directions. 1 feel, therefore, entitled to testify to his great industry, kindly dispositions, marked ability, high principles, and views of the broadest humanity. If an incentive to the younger generation of New Zealand should at any time be needed, it wilt surely be found in the life and death of the late Colonel Malone, whose* lofty sense of duty impelled him, when in possession of all that men hold dear, to lay everything aside that he might fight for our liberties and filially lav down his life for our country and our Empire, which he loved so well and served so faithfully. May it never be that, such a man died in vain."