PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 68, 25 February 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr C. E. Mackav, Mayor of Wanganui, has enlisted for active service. A London cable announces the death of Dr. Martin, the organist of St. Paul’s Cathedral. The Rev. J. Pattison is exchanging pulpits on Sunday next with Mr M. J. Ravn, of Inglewood. Mr P, Selig, of the Christchurch Press, has been elected chairman of the Press Association. • Captain A. M. Mac Diarmid, of Xew Plymouth, has been appointed to command of E. Company, 14th Reinforcements. The Military Records Office is advised by cable that Sister Helena M. Xewton is dangerously ill, from enteric fever, in the Anglo-American Hospital at Cairo. Miss AT. C. Terry (of New Plymouth). now on the staff of the Stratford High School, has received advice from the University that she has gained the degree of Master of Science with first-class honors. The Sommerville Memorial Church, Remuera, have given a '.arty and unanimous call to the Rev. I. Pattison, of St. Andrew’s Church, Stratford. It is understood that the Rev. Pattison ha s the call under consideration. and will probably accept same. Xews has been received in Wellington of the death of Mr Thomas Stout, M.A.. P.L., solicitor, of Glasgow, cousin of Sir Robert .Stout, Chief Justice of Xew Zealand. The late Mr Stout lost his .son in the fighting in Flanders about two months ago. Sergeant W. R. Richardson, who was killed in action on December 25, was chief accountant for Dalgety and Co. at Auckland when he enlisted in the Sixth Reinforcements for the Auckland Mounted Rifles. Sergeant Richardson acted as secretary of the Auckland Woolbrookers’ Association. He was about 28 years of age. Police-Sergeant Quinn, who has been on relieving duty in Stratford for the past six weeks, left for Palmerston Xorth by the mail train this morning, and Sergeant Dale, who has been on holiday leave, resumed duty to-day. Constable Robertson, arrived in Stratford last evening to take up duties here. A Press Association message from Wellington yesterday stated that E. Sutherland, an apprentice on the Aparima, stepson of Captain TV aller, of Xew Plymouth, had been killed on the Apa rim a. This is wrong. It was Arthur Roi Waller, youngest son of Captain and Mrs Waller, of Moturoa, who was killed .

Allen Doone, the popular Irish actor who made many friends in New Zealand. and Edna Keeley, left Sydney for America on January 20th. They are due back in Australia at Easter. Allen Doone ha s this year booked the New Zealand race dates. He opens in. Gisborne on June 14 and finishes in Auckland on September 16. Hi s repertoire will include fuor new plays, “The Bould Soger Boy.” “The Colleen Bawn,” “Too Much Johnson,” and “O’Leary, V.C.”

The Gisborne Times states that the local Council’s beach caretaker, Mr Thos. Hanlon, although sixty-three years of age, has been sent for by the War Office, and he proceeds shortly to London to take up a position on the Recruiting Staff for the English Expeditionary Forces. Mr Hanlon spent twenty-seven years in the Imperial Army, and took his discharge at Calcutta’with the rank of Sergeant-In-structor. Referring to his age, he said that age did not count now; it was a man’s service papers that weie responsible for an appointment, for a position could he found for every competent Imperial man. The War Office has sent Mr Hanlon £IOO to pay the passage money of himself and his wife Home.