PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 75, 1 July 1916, Page 3

PERSONAL.

Messrs F. J. Maindonald (Rowan), C. T. Fearon (Kohuratahi) and J. W. Melville (Kaponga) have been passed as 111 tor the Reinforcements.

Major-General R. H. Davies, V 8., who went to France last July in command of the 20th Division R.E.h., has now been transferred to England, where he is commanding one of the reserve centres.

A Press cable message from London states that the King gave an audience to Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander J. Godloy and invested him with the Commandership of the Order of the Bath (K.C.8.).

Word has been received in Wellington that Commander B. C. Freyberg, D. 5.0., of the Royal Naval Division, who has been wounded several times previously, has been wounded again, this time in the right arm. The message states that the arm is fractured.

The Rev. W. E. Gillan announced at a gathering of parishioners of St. Matthew's Church, Auckland, on Tuesday evening that he expected shortly to receive orders to proceed Home to rejoin a New Zealand hospital ship as chaplain. During his absence the parish will he in charge of the Rev. P. S. Srnallfield, who will be assisted by the Rev. Jasper Caldor. A private cable message from London announces the death, at Eastbourne, England on Tuesday last, of Mr Malcolm Macpherson, formerly general manager of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd. The late Mr Macpherson, who was over 70 years of age, was born in Scotland. Mr Macpherson has left a widow but no children.