PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 74, 26 November 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr H. A. E. Milnes, principal of the Auckland Training College, has enlisted. Rev. J. Pattison returned to-day from Auckland, and will occupy his pulpit on Sunday. Rev. J. W. Hayward, of Akaroa, who is known to many people in Stratford, will preach in St. Andrew's Church on Sunday evening. The Employers' Federation has decided to recommend Mr William Scott as successor to Mr E. F. Duthie as employer's representative on the Arbitration Court. Mr W. G. Wickham, British Trade Commissioner in New Zealand, has been appointed to South Africa, and leaves at the end of the year. Mr N. Porter, formerly of Stratford, in a letter to his parents, Mr and Mrs W. E. Porter, of Stratford, states that he lias joined the Flying , Corps in England. f • News has been received in WellingI iton that Lieutenant-Colonel J. Hughes will return to 'New Zealand as soon I as he is sufficiently Lieu- , tenant-Colonel Hughes left r for the . Dardanelles with the - Main- Expedij tionary Force. [. ; .... i |)j • :i. l: j Mr E. G. Cumming, who has been i manager for Messrs A. Hatrick and Co. in Waitara and New Plymouth for the past six months, has resigned to take up a similar position for Messrs Levin and Co. at Hawera and Pa tea. Mr W. W. Lindsay, 8.L., principal of the China Inland Mission Preparatory School at Kuling, .China, has just died. Mr Lindsay was trained for the law, but lef,t that profession ,to become editor of,, the English edition of "China's Millions.",., , Mr Andrew Thompson, of Wanj ganui, was presented with a ! certificate by the Presbyterian Assemi bly to mark tiie close r of his 63rd year i of Sunday School'teaching. The Rev. J. D. McKenzie, of St. Paul's, WanI ganui, in accepting the certificate on . Mr Thompson's behalf, said 5 he was i proud to be associated with such a j worker. Mr Thompson was over 80 I years of age. The Rev. Mr Fraer is to be retained ' for another six months in Europe as chaplain to the Maoris, especially with.the, Maori wounded in England. The church authorities in the Old Country have specially requested this, owing to the number of Maoris sick, wounded, or convalescent, who value a friend they knew well to specially look after their interests. —^—————■