PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 2, 1 August 1916, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Christian Eichstondt, Midhirst. lias Ijccu passed as medically fit in!' the* Infantry section of the Reinforcements. At yesterday’s meeting of the Stratford Co-operative Dairy Company, Mr R. Dingle was elected chairman for the fouteenth year of tenure'of that office.

The funeral of the late Mr Arthur Simmons, the victim of the unfortunate shooting accident at Te Wera, will move from the Stratford Hospital at 3 o’clock to-morrow, for the Kopuatama cemetery.

air Whetter, inspector under the Taranaki Education Board, who has been transferred to the Napier district, was yesterday presented hy the Board’s office staff with a silver-, mounted'umbrella and a silver match box. Mr Whetter leaves for Napier to-morrow'.

Saturday’s casualty list included the following Taranaki men:—Reported wounded: Second-Lieutenant R. G. Garden (Mrs M. Garden, Normanby, mother). Embarked for England: Richard M. Shield (next-of-kin, John Shield, Patea), Gilbert John Seed (W. Seed, Douglas, father), Roland Smith (Mrs J. E. Smith, Stratford, mother).

Among the sucescsful candidates in the recent State examination for the .Legist rat ion of nurses were the following , from New PlymouthD. Chittenden, J. E. Daplyn, and M. A. Jackson, A. M. Marsh (Hawera) and M. Bilton (Stratford) obtained a partial pass, each passing the oral' and medical sections.

Mr G. Harold Smith, solicitor, who contested the Pahiatua seat in 1899, has .been approached to stand as the Reform candidate, and has consented subject to being satisfied that it is the general wish of the electors. Mr R. B. Ross, an ex-member, says he has definitely decided to come out as 'an Independent candidate. —Press Association.

The members of the choir of the Catholic Church assembled after 'Vespers on Sunday I ' night, and the Rev. Father Maples, presented Miss W. Fitzgerald,, who is about to enter the bonds of ' matrimony, with a silvermounted salad' bowl. Father Maples, in a short speech, spoke of the good work Miss Fitzgerald had done while a member of the choir. Mr W. Bowler briefly responded on Miss Fitzgerald’s behalf.

Mr T. W. Fisher, for the past ten years Under-Secretary for the Native Affairs Department and a Judge of thisiNative Land Coilrt, retired "yesterday on superannuation (reports the Press Association). He was met by representatives of the Department from all pjarts of New Zealand, and Hon. W. H. Herries, Minister in charge of the Department, presented Mr Fisher on their behalf with a gold watch and other gifts, as a' mark of appreciation. The Native Affairs department now ceases’ to be a' separate department, 1 the work being amalgamated with the! Justice Department, Mr C. B. Jordafi' being Under-Secre-tary to the combined‘offices.