PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 79, 9 March 1916, Page 3

PERSONAL.

Mr J. A. Scott, late of the Agricultural Department (Dairy Division), has passed for the Master of Laws degree with second-class honors. He is a graduate of A ictoria College.

At the last public service senior examination. Master Maurice Rogers, pupil of the Stratford District High School, passed in the following subjects: Arithmetic, algebra, geometry. trigonometry, general agriculture, and dairy science. Master Rogers’ name was omitted from the published list of successful candidates.

The death is reported from Christchurch of Mr William Guise Brittan, for many years Bursar of Christ’s College, aged 71. He came to Canterbury in one of the first four ships. Mr J. W. Collins, chief clerk of the Labor Department, who was secretary of the Cost of Living Commission in 1912, will probably be appointed secretary to the Board of Trade. Private advices recently received state that the distinction of removing the last New Zealand gun at Anzao fell to the lot of Captain H. A. Davies and men of his battery. Captain Davies now commands the 3rd Battery, 11.N.F.A. In connection with this exploit it may he mentioned that 300 rounds of ammunition was sacrificed, this quantity being kept to the end. tearing an attack at any moment. However, it was very cleverly hidden, and would probably take the Turks some time to find.

Air A. E. Havelock Green, who died from the injuries sustained in the collision between a motor-ear and a train at the Annesbrook crossing on the Nelson railway line on Friday was born near London forty-two years ago. He saw service in the Boer war as a member of an Australian contingent. For some time he was part owner of the Tribune newspaper at Waver ley, and subsequently he and Mr Wilson took over the Cambridge Independent. For the past two years he was manager of the advertising department of Hie Christchurch Press Company. He has left a widow and three young children. Mr H. D. Pine, another of the victims of the collision, was for nearly thirty years in the jobbing department of the Christchurch Press Company, and only retired a few weeks ago from the position of factory manager. He was 59 years of age. and leaves a widow and grownup family, some of whom are married. He was interested in a block of fruit land in the North Tasman district, and had been in Nelson on business connected with Hie property.

The Rev. Garnet Frio Shaw, who recently resigned the charge of St. James’ parish, East St. Kilda (Melbourne). to serve bis country as a fighting unit of the Australian Imperial Forces, not in the usual capacity of a chaplain..is a man of W'.v parts. He has seen more of hie than most clergymen, and bis experiences have sunk deep into his nature. He does not take the teachings of the Church for granted, and if they are opposed to bis conscience in any small particular be is uofc the man to pass over the matter light!'. This man has worked in an office as an ordinary city clerk, he lias Billowed the somewhat uncertain lit? of a pearler, he has walked on the- Hour of the ocean, he holds master s and mate’s discharges, ho has wandered through the fruit-growing districts of West Australia, and has, worked as an ordinary laborer in Hie fields. The name of Shaw must be handed down to posterity, as ho was the first chaplain of Hie Royal Australian Navy. Now. after working up a line parish, he uas resigned to become a soldier. And it is Ins earnest wish that before long he will be in flic firing line.