PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 69, 26 February 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A Berlin official message announcts the death of Admiral Bold, ex-chief of the Fleet. Sergeant Charles Fincham has been selected to proceed to the Non-Com’s damp on the 6th March. The Bishop of Birmingham ordained the Bev. R. J. Campbell in the Paris Church, Birmingham, states a London cablegram. Foreman M. Carey, of the -Patea Fire Brigade, received last night at the hands of the Mayor the U.F.8.A.gold star for 25 years’ service. Dr. F. Dewsbury Pinfold, senior house surgeon at the Waikato Hospital, has resigned from the staff, and is offering his services to the Defence Department. The Hon. W. D. S. MacDonald (Minister of Agrculture), accompaned by his private secretary (Mr A. W. Mulligan) returned to Wellington by the mail train this morning. Commissioner Hodder and Brigadier Bray, of the Salvation Army, left Auckland on Tuesday by the Niagara for Suva. They will probably establish a branch of the Salvation Army in Fiji. Mr H. J. Clemance, special assistant at Eltham District High School, has 'just received instructions to proceed to the training camp for noncommissioned officers on Satujlay next. His successor will be Miss White, L.L.A. The Rev. Canon Tuke, of Napier, who fell while attempting to board a moving train at Dannevirke on Friday last, and received several nasty cuts about his head, is progressing well, and should be about again in a few days. Chaplain-Captain J. R- Sullivan, who went to Gallipoli in the ranks of the original New Zealand expeditionary Force, and who is in Auckland to attend the Methodist Conference, ha§ received notice that he has been posted to the Tenth Reinforcements. Mr J. C. N. Grigg, vice-president of the Board of Agriculture, will leave New Zealand shortly on a visit to England. At the last meeting of the, Board members expressed their appreciation to the valuable services lie had rendered to the Board during the past two years, and expressed the hope th,,t as he was only leaving the try temporarily he would not resign* his position. Sir George Reid. ex-High Commissioner for AnstraTTa. and now a British M.P., told this story against his own hulk at a Christmas dinner to Anssacs in London;—“l met Sir lan Hamilton in one of the clubs and told him 1 wanted to go to the front,” he said: “I told him I wasn’t much of •i walker that when I went shooting I nearly shot myself, and that when I got on a horse I didn’t know whether ! should get off when I wanted to or not. But I said, ‘Why can’t you let me go to tlie front as an armoured f ovt? > sir Tan looked at me up and down and said. ‘Well, Sir George, I don’t think wc could send you to the front ns an armoured fort, hut T think ive might make a base of you. ”