PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 48, 1 February 1916, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr W. T. Jennings, M.P., is « n a visit to the northern part of his electorate. Mr W. F. C. Balham, who recently resigned from the teaching staff of the New Plymouth Boys’ High School, has been appointed to the stall of the Wellington Boys’ College. Messrs W. T. Seamark (Midhirst), W. H. Little (Tutatawa) and J. James (Stratford) have been accepted as -medically fit for the Reinfoieo,ments. Mr Walter Bredow, of the Stratford branch of the Loan and Mercantile Co., who has been transferred to Gisborne, wag entertained by the staff last night, and presented with a safety razor and a tobacco pouch. Mr Brodow left this morning for Gisborne. Mr Justice Hosking will preside over the sittings' of the Supreme Court at New Plymouth this week. Mr M. Myers and Mr C. P. Skerrett, K.C., the well-known Wellington barristers, will visit New Plymouth in connection with the sitting of the Court. Mr Stamford Smith, Administrator of (Papua, has entered camp at Perth, West Australia, as a private in the Expeditionary Forces. He has done so because he believes it is the duty of every able-bodied man to go to the front. He still holds the position of Administrator of British New Guinea, and has been granted special leave without pay for tho duration of the war. Mr Robert Wells, who died on Sunday, 'was an old and respected settler of North Taranaki. He was 73 years of age, and came out to New Zealand as a boy with his parents in 1885, and the family settled at Mangorei, When the war broke out they came into New Plymouth with the other settlers, and Mr Wells joined the forces in fne capacity of a bullock driver in the Artillery. Subsequently he saw service with the bush party and also with the Mounted Corps,, in which company he was promoted to the rank of sergeant. In 1875 he settled at Huirangi, and at the time of the Te Whiti raid, when the Manutahi Rifle Company was formed, he was appointed a lieutenant. He has always taken a keen and active interest in the Veterans’ Association. He started the Sunday School at Huirangi and acted as its superintendent for 25 years, only resigning this position when he retired from active farming pursuits and went to reside at Brixton, Waitara Road. He leaves a widow and grown-up family.