PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 80, 10 March 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Last night's Gazette announces the re-appointment of Mr W. G. Foster as a member of the Public Trust Office Board. ' Mr C. J. Rolls. Missionary of India, has just arrived in New Zealand, and will give an address in the Gosoel Hall at 7 p.m. on Sunday evening. Major-General Sir A. J. Godley, K.C.M.G.. C. 8., is gazetted temporary Lieut-General while commanding an Army Corps. Mr E. Clifton, who was the New Zealand Commissioner at the San Francisco Exposition, is expected to return to the Dominion in about a month's time. Mr David Nathan has been appointed to the directorate of the Bank of New Zealand, replacing Mr Kane whose time has expired. Mr \Y. Reece has been reappointed.

Mr E. Jackson, who has been a resident of the Stratford district for over twenty years, has disposed of his Stratford residence, and has decided to taken up his abode in New Plymouth in July next. Mr C. Yinee, of Tuna, was the purchaser.

Word has been received in Stratford that Sergeant T. Laverty. who underwent an operation in the hospital in Wellington, is doing well, and expects to be able to return to Stratford shortly.

Mr L. E. Jackson, formerly representative of the Farmers' Co-Opera-tive Organisation Society in Opunake, was on Wednesday evening entertained at a social, and presented with a. fountain pen, sovereign case and match-box, and with a purse of sovereigns for Mrs Jackson.

Mr R. B. Bell, who for the past eight years has been manager of the Ashburtou Guardian, and who has now enlisted, was presented by the staff of his paper on Friday with a gold wristlet watch, while Mrs Bell was given a silver-mounted oak tray and vase.

The friends of Mr Rupert Nicholls, who has been an inmate of a private hospital in Wellington for the past ten months, owing to a severely wounded leg. sustained at Gallipoli. will be pleased to learn that he has so fur recovered as to be able to get out of bed for an hour or so each day.