PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 71, 23 November 1915, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Rev. Father Harnett, iu charge of the Opunake parish, has heen ordered by his medical adviser to take a pro-; longed holiday. Mr F. W. Kirkwood, of the Bank of Australasia, Stratford, has heen trans* ferred to the Whangamomona branch to fill the position caused by Mr B. Hume's departure with the Reinforcements. Mr W Harris, Jun., known more familiarly as "Pat" Harris, who was a member of the New Zealand Rugby team that toured Australia in 1896, left Dunedin for Trentham with the 10th Reinforcements. Frontiersman G. W. Earnshaw, of the Auckland Mounted Rifles, in an interesting letter from a rest camp, refers incidentally to Sergeant H. Richmond (son of the late Mr H. J. Richmond, of Midhirst), who, he states, was wounded in action, and though the Turks turned a machinegun on him "h e coolly walked back to the trench as if nothing had happened." The writer of the letter states that the Legion suffered very heavily in. the month of August, many comrades falling.