PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 44, 27 January 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The Rev. Jasper Calder, of Auckland, and the Rev. H, A. Johnson, of Wliangarei, have been appointed chaplains to the New Zealand Defence Forces. •

Mr E. Sargeant, son of Mr R. W. Sargeaut, Hawcra, has enlisted in. England with the Royal Medical Corps, and when he last wrote was in camp at Sheffield.

.Air David Chatteris, of New Plymouth, received advice from the Defenc Department yesterday that his son Malcolm, previously reported as missing, was killed in action at Gallipoli in the early clays of the campaign.

Sergt. R. A. Brewer, the late secretary of the Patea Farmers’ Co-opera-tive Association, Ltd., lias received still further promotion, being now Sergt.-Major in the Ilth Artillery Reinforcements.

Advice has been received that Air Malcolm Ross, New Zealand War Correspondent, has now recovered from his recent illness and has resumed his duties.

Air J. Young, the newly-elected member of the Taraiufki Education Board, was welcomed to the Board yesterday. The chairman (Mr H. Trimble) expressed bis pleasure at again seeing Mr Young a member of the Board.

The death of Dr. F. Otto Inglis occurred last Friday night at St, Helier’s Bay, Auckland. Dr. Inglis, who came to New Zealand several years ago from Peebles, Scotland, had an excellent practice at Te Aroha. Two years ago he married the second daughter of Air and Airs Aluir Douglas, and ho was spending the Christmas holidays at St. Helier’s when he got a chill, that turned to pneumonia and other complications.