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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 72, 1 March 1916, Page 4

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Archbishop Cerretti, Papal Delegate, loaves to-day for Sydney, reports the Press Association agent at Christchurch. J The New Zealand nurses leaving ■ with the next Reinforcement are: ; Sisters Phiilpot, Hobbs, AVhitta, • Keith. Tbbotson, and Muir. I Air H. AT Peattie, stationmaster at i Stratford, is on his annual leave. Mr ' J. O’Shea, of Wanganui, is taking up Air Poattio’s duty during his absence. | Captain T. G. Grubb, of the Strat- ' ford Volunteer Fire Brigade, who atj tended the Fire Brigades’ Conference | at AVcstport, returned home last even--1 ing. ( | The latest Gazette contains notice of the re-appointment of Air S. P. Smith ( New Plymouth) and Mr Richard Dingle (Stratford) as members of the ■ Egmont National Park Board t Word has been received from Bulls that Corpora] Watson, son of Mr F. j H. Watson, manager of the Bank of New South Wales at Bulls, has been awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal. As an instance of rapid promotion the Ell ham Argus cites the case of Frank Pritleaux, of that town, who left tlie Dominion as a sergeant, he afterwards became sergeant-major, and now he is a lieutenant. Air George Winstone, the newly elected vice-president of the New Zealand Alethodist Conference, has, by faithful service to the WeJeyan i body, fully deserved the honour (says , the Auckland “Star”). A highly-es-teemed resident of Auckland for over j half a century, Mr Winstone for j close on 39 years was superintendent 'of Pitt Street Wesleyan Sunday School. I There are many in Hawera (says I tlie Star) who will be sorry to learn | that as a result of a Court of Inquiry, Trooper A. G. Moeller, who was missing in August, is now reported to have been killed in action on the Gallipoli Peninsula. In his last letter to his mother at Auckland (bub late of Hawera). dated August 21, he i said that he was getting on all right, although the squadron numbered ! very few. i ' - Some time ago it was cabled out to New Zealand that Robin Harper, of the C.Y.C., son of Mr George Harper, had revived the D.C.M., and also that he and Gordon, his brother, a lieutenant in the Canterbury Machine Gun Section (C.Y.C.), had been mention in despatches. The latest London Gazette to hand contains the announcement that both Mr Harper’s sons have been awarded Distinguished Conduct Medals. Information has been received in Nelson concerning Colonel E. G. Davidson, D. 5.0., from an officer of tho French Foreign Legion, under date January 4th, as follows; —“I have the honour to report that your husband has been taken prisoner after being slightly wounded and gassed. He, with a company of tho Foreign Legion, made a heroic defence of the position, and big name has been forwarded for the cross of the Legion of Honour. He is quite safe, although a prisoner probably for the duration of the war. Any news be forwarded if it is available.” Colonel Davidson visited his parents in Nelson some time ago ou leave from the Peruvian Army. Ho is an old boy of Nelson College, and saw service in South Africa.