PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 30, 11 January 1916, Page 8

PERSONAL.

His Excellency the Governor, accompanied by Lady Liverpool and suite intends to make a trip in northern waters in the Tutanekai a few weeks hence. Probably lie will travel round the coast from Onehnnga to Auckland, visiting various points of interest en route. The death is announced of Sir Samuel Way, Chief Justice of South Australia. Mr A. L. Frue wen, Whangamomona, has been passed as medically fit for the Reinforcements. Seregant Dale, of the Stratford police, left on his annual leave yesterday for New Plymouth and Gisborne. Sergeant Quin, of Palmerston North, is in charge of the Stratford office during Sergeant Dale’s absence. The final list of commissions in the Ninth Reinforcements, which have been approved, include Captain W. T. Joll. Lieut. C. C. Gilbert, SecondLieut. R. H. Espiner, and SecondLieut. R. H. Quilliam, all of Taranaki. Mr W. Donnelly, who has been manager of the Hawera Friendly Societies’ Dispensary, left yesterday morning for the medical camp at Palmerston North. Mr Donnelly was married on Christmas Day to Nurse Steuart, also of Hawera. Mr L. G. Bennett, who has been an employee of the Stratford Dairy Company for'the past three years, and who left for camp with the 12th Reinforcements yesterday morning, was presented with a wristlet watch by his fellow employees. Mr F, J. McDonald, the manager, who made the presntation, referred to Mr Bennett as a good worker, and said there was no doubt in his mind, that if Mr Bennett took as much interest in his drill as he did in his work, he would be heard of in the future. The death occurred at Marlborough on Saturday of Mr Gustav Bary, at tile age of 82. He had been in New Zealand over 00 years, coming first to Nelson and then settling in Marlborough. He is survived by his wife (whom he married 53 years ago) and five daughters and seven sons. The family are Mrs Dowling and Mrs Brydon (New Plymouth), Mrs W. Higgins, Mrs S. Slow (Waikato), Miss Bary (Dunedin), Messrs Edward Bary (New Plymouth), John, Wililarn, Albert, and James Bary (Marlborough), Charles Bary (Wellington), and Gustav Bary (Waikato). Those who remember the old coaching days, when Cobb and Co. was the only means of inter-communication throughout New Zealand, will not have forgotten the excellent service by Messrs Shepherd and Young, first between Wellington and Wanganui, and subsequently right on to New Plymouth after the conclusion of the Maori war. Among the best known and most capable of the firm’s “whips was Mr W. K. Carter, an Australian Jehu of considerable repute. Mr Carter is still living and fairly hale and hearty, considering his advanced years, having reached his 91st year last November. Mr Carter lives at Cambridge and is full, of reminiscences of the ex- | citing days of the early Victorian goldfields.