PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 14, 20 December 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The death of Mr George Dixon, a resident of,Wellington, is announced at the age of 71. - .Messrs H. R. Harris (Havyera), and T. B. Aldridge (Stratford) have been passed as medically fit for service; / with the Reinforcements. i Mr R. Buckley, clerk of the Moa Road Board, tendered his resignation at Saturday’s meeting, owing to pressure of other work. The resignation iwas accepted with regret. J i Mr J. B. Morton, of Onelmnga, well ' known iu football circles as the Taranaki delegate on the Council of the New Zealand Rugby Football League, is at present dangerously ill iu the j Auckland Hospital. ,-WWy has been received that Ser- s gearu Jack Murphy, of the Otago Mounted Rifles (son of Mrs E. Murphy, of Meremere). was wounded m "paction on December 2. He is the AhinJj.son of Mrs Murphy’s to be wounded. , The following have been gazetted members of the Surveyors’ Board under the Surveyors’ Institute and ’ ’ Board of Examiners Act :—-Messrs T. “ Humphries and R. T. Sadd (nominated 1 by the Minister bf Lands), 1 and Messrs !H. SJ,£idd( if o Sfi'd ! J. Cl’ Simmonds f'/ iioininate 1 by ’the Couikbl of the In- " I .-icier;*! ■. t -( . r: v- , 1 ! ;

T ’ Mil Harry Burmester,. of Newton iilV'ing’s clerical staff; who is leaving | for. camp about-thq middle of next- ; month,, was presented with a wristlet- , dvatchi by his fellow , workmen; [on iSat- , • urday afternoon,, Mr. H E. Abraham, •„ who made the presentation, eldogised the work done by Mr Burmester and ravished the.,recipient good luck, God ; speed and a safe return, Mr Colin Gilray, the Scottish international. alfd" New ‘ Zealand repre-' 1 seiitative wing three-quarter j has given up his legal practitA at Milton, .and leaves ifiUmdiately for London to “ offer his services ’to the Empirfe.' He“ ' ‘ will rej'oin his old company at Oxford 13 '■ * in ivliich he held a donfTiis term, of study a i N T eW' Zealjuid's 1 Rhodes Scholar. • 11 *■ hi nlf nor j Lieu ten kiitx Blake, Canterbury Bat--btalion, reported killed in action,, was ! a son of Mr V. of the Gisborne--., I Land and Survey Office, Lieutenant. ’ Blake was a surveyor, and was engaged in survey work in the Auckland province when he enlisted. He left New Zealand wicu the Sixth Reinforcements, receiving a commission just prior to the departure of the troops. 1 ’ '"President Wilson and Mrs Galt were married by the Rev. Herbert Scottf Smith, the bride’s pastor, assisted by the Rev. James Taylor, the President’s pastor (states a message from Washington). The couple left per special train for the hotsprings in Virginia, where they will spend their honeymoon, in motoring, golfing and walking on the mountain trails. There were no . bridesmaids and no best i man at the marriage, i • * j Mr G. Allport, Secretary of Mar- , me, on behalf of the British Board of , Trade, on Friday presented to Captain E. J. Hales, master of the Union Company’s tug Terawhiti, a silver medal and diploma awarded to him by the Emperor of Japan, for the heroic part Captain Hales played

in the rescue of five Japanese fishermen and a woman in the Japanese Inland Sea. Captain Hales was .chief officer of the Miueric >vlien the episode occurred, on June 3rd, 1914. i There‘had been a typhoon, and the ' Japanese schooner was sighted capsized." Through Captain Hales’s ■promptness, the men were hauled safely ou board the Mineric. The rescued fishermen anxiously endeavored’ toi-explain something in connection with the schooner, but no one could uhderstand them., Eventually the assistance of the Japanese pilot was obtained and then it was discovered that there was i woman imprisoned in the capsized boat. Captain Hales went on to rbe schooner at considerable risk and cut a hole in her timbers thus rescuing the woman, who had been knocked about, but was not seriously injured. Captain Hide’s .deed has also been recognised by the Royal Humane Society presenting him with the Stanhope medal.