PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 39, 21 January 1916, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Mr A. P>. Stanclish, of New Plymouth,, lias been appointed a secondlieutenant in the A.S.C. of the Expeditionary Force.

Major Maguire, of the New Zealand Medical Corps, and medical superintendent of the Auckland Hospital, will return from Egvit in .March.

The Right-Hon.-Joseph Pease has been appointed British PostmasterGeneral, in succession to Mr Herbert Samuel, who has become Home Secretary.

Messrs R. McK. Morison, of Stratford. and P. C. Davies, of Now Plymouth, have been appointed the Taranaki councillors on the New Zealand Association of Nurserymen.

Mr Kenneth Marshall, of Sydney, has resigned from the staff of the Press Association to join th,-> Expeditionary Forces. Before joining the Association he was engaged in freelance work in New Zealand.

Mr Thomas W. Poole, of Ponsonby, died at the residence of Ids son, Mr C. H. Poole, M.P., Auckland, on Monday, at the age of 74, after a short illness. Deceased arrived in Australia 30 years ago from Mount Mellick. Queen’s County, Ireland, and 12 years ago he removed to Auckland. He leaves two sons and two daughters.

Mr T. F. Checsernan has resigned the position of meteorological observer at Auckland, after 33 years’ service. Mr F. A. Burott, of the Telegraph Department,' has been appointed to 1111 the vacancy. Records have been taken continuously during sixty-three years. The following Taranaki men have been admitted to the Pont de Koubbeh Hospital, Cairo, wounded and sick: Driver John Donaldson, brother of Thomas Donaldson, 1 New Plymouth ; Driver Thomas M. Landy, son of Mrs M. Landy, Hawera; and Rifleman George Barry, son of Mis G. Barry, Stratford.

Dr. Harold Williams, war correspondent at Petrograd for the London Daily Chronicle, is a son of the Rev. W. J. Williams, of Sumner, Christchurch, formerly in charge of .Trinity Church, Wellington South. Dr. Williams was born and educated in New Zealand, and is a wonderful linguist. In addition to the Maori and Polynesian languages, he can read nearly all the languages in Europe.

It is extremely doubtful (says the New Zealand Herald) whether the military medical officers will allow Mi A. Harris, M.P. for Waitemata, to proceed to Samoa as a wireless operator, for which purpose he enlisted some weeks ago. Since the accident which lately happened to him at Narrow Nock camp. Mr Harris ha s been under medical treatment, and so far the verdict of the military authorities is decidedly adverse to his going on service, A wedding that created a great deal of interest locally (reports the To Puke , Times), was celebrated in St. John’s j Church on the 21st ult., when Miss j Helen Curtic Webber (Nellie), second daughter of Mr H. P. Webber, of To Puke, was united in the bonds of matrimony to Mr James Barney, son of Mr Barney, of Invercargill. The Church had been prettily decorated by the girl friends of the bride, and there , was a large attendance to witness the ceremony. The Rev. J. Hobbs officiated. The service was partly choral, Miss. Florrie Hobbs presiding at the organ. The bride, who was given away by her father, "as charmingly attired in a cream cloth costume, and cream crepe de chine hat. She was attended by her sister, Miss Beatrice Webber, who was dressed in Persian lawn, and white silk hat with nattier trimming. Mr C. Morton was best man. Mr s Webber, the bride’s mother, wore a handsome shantung costume, and burnt straw bat with black feathers. A s the bridal party left the Church, after the oeiemony, the organist played the Wedding March. - The happy couple after- , wards left for Rotorua, en route for the South Island, where the honeymoon is to be spent.