PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 28, 8 May 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr T. P. Hug'hsbn has, been re-elect-ed chairman of the Opunake Harbor Boa,i;d,, > . ;,j ;i .};

,',Mr G..E., Powers has been sppj>in& 0(1 Borough' Uowson, resigned._ ~

Mr Arthur Henry M. Wright, of Patea, has been appbinted eliginber to ihii Kairanga County Council.

Messrs W. T. Cubbon (Stratford),' T. I). Ha'mblyn (Tariki), E. E. Lacey (Midhirst), and T. E. Bennetts (Stratford) have been passed as medically| fit for the Reinforcements.-

Lieutenant Gray, of the, Stratford Defence Office, is asking headquarter* to be relieved to undergo a slight operation to enable him to proceed to .the front. Lieutenant Gray expects to get awivy at an early date.

Lieutenant. Stenhouse, commander of the Aurora, has informed the Prime Minister that he "ill probably visit England, returning to rejoin f his ship when it leaves about. November for the Antarctic to relieve the waiting explorers. '■( . ■ .• ■! ■■■;

''Dr. E. W- Sharman, of Auckland, who has been in charge of the medical services at the Rangiotu Camp for some time past, has been called upon at short notice to take charge, as principal medical officer, of a transport The rank of major has been conferred upon him.

An engagement of general interest is announced between Miss Mary Selwyn, a daughter of the late Bishop John Selwyn of Melanesia, and the Kev. Charles Palmer, of Wellington (a son of the late Archbishop Palmer, of Norfolk Islands). Bishop Selwyn *nd Archbishop Palmer were for years closely associated with the work of the Melanosian Mission.

Three deaths of old residents of the W.anganui district are recorded, the.,'; combined ages totalling 26-1 years.. At Waverley, Mrs Isabella Taylor, wido*, of the late Mr Thomas Taylor, mer- | chant of New Deer, Aberdeenshire died on Tuesday, at the great age o I c,2 • on Monday Mr John Morgan, or Du'rie Hill Wangaifui, passed away at! the age of 87; and on the same day, Mr Charles Thomas Page, died at the Wanganui Hospital at the age of ho.

The London correspondent of the Lvttelton Times states that the following New Zealanders have recently received commissions on Ti.M.S. Averterer*—As lieutenant-engineers, A. L. Gatland, of Onehunga; J. S. Wells, of St Albans Christchurch; and K. Cook, of St. Leonard's, Dunedm; and as sub-lieutenant engineers, Messrs W. 11 Richardson, of Balclutha; H. a. Wilson, of Mosgiel, Dunedm; G *■ McLeod of Grafton, Auckland; IV. d. Urquhurt. of Musselburgh, Dunedm; and T. McLaren, of Dunedm. Writing to Mr J. Neilsou, ufMidhirst, from hmialia, under date Febra.arv 27. Kifleman H. vV. V, right, ot tno Earl of Liverpool's Own, said ;ney liarl then been there a fortnight a.ter a KreB t trip over. They were out in the desert where there was nothing »'« san d ps far as one could see. and the marching through it all day long was solid. The people with whom they pame in contract were mostly Natives. :;;::; m . dirty M « **« «f--;; Wri 'ht asked to be remembered to all friends, who will be-pleased to hear that he is keeping in good health. For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure,