PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 43, 25 May 1916, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr R. C. G. Weston, a well-known Now Zealand journalist and a member of Hansard staff, lias been accepted lor active service.

At the meeting of the Education Board yesterday, resignations were received from Miss E. A. Roseveare, assistant, Inglewood, and Miss M. Hirliliy, assistant, Bell Block.

Private advice has been received that Lieut.-Colonel W. J. Glasgow, ot the Royal West Surrey Regiment, has been promoted to the rank of Briga-dier-General. He is an old boy of Nelson College, and was one of the first three New Zealanders to qualify for Sandhurst. Lieut.-Col. A. E. Glasgow is a younger brother of the BrigadierGeneral.

A resident of Tai Tapu, Mr A. E. Lowe, has received advice from the Canadian Records Office that bis son, Private Ernest George Strong Lowe, was killed in action on May 13, in Prance, Private Lowe went to Canada some ten years ago, and when war broke out enlisted in the Winnipeg Grenadiers, Fifth Canadian Battalion. Ho was 32 years of age. His brother, Private George Lowe, is in the Taranaki Company of the Wellington Infantry Regiment. He was wounded at Gallipoli,. but made good recovery, and, according to recent advices, wa. pa leave in London.