PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 55, 2 October 1916, Page 5

PERSONAL.

'The Nelson Presbytery have non.> ■' nated the Hon. J. W. G. Aitken, of Wellington, as Moderator for the General Assembly of 1917. Mr Laurie Robinson, son t of Mr R. H. Robinson, .who haS been spending 1 a "few days with his parents, left V tbia morning's mail for Wellington, where ha is in business. i Police-Inspector Wilson, in charge I of the .Wanganui district, intends, on his retirement, to, take up his residence at' Ellerslie, where he has purchased a property. Juliet Street; Stratford; * desires' to acknowledge receipt of a message of condolence on the loss .n France of her son, Private Lawreiita i Terry, from the Hon. James Allen (Minister of Defence).

Captain J, B. Bine, M.P., who has been home on final leave 1 for a day or two, lef-D by the mail train for Trentham Camp. Captain Hine, who is looking remarkably well, said the men throughout the camp were in the besjt of spirits and good health.

of .Mr % : who ford Hos'pitai a and is still confined ■*<> |j 9 ,ijS°- s l' ; dence,34mbroke'lto^ h ,wm regret to learn that his condition W rather sert ■; ious. \, it ' ,'j; Sapper A. R. ("Dick"), Masters was seriously wounded during the fighting in France on the 14th September. Mr J. Masters received word from the Defence Department on Saturday that his son is at,present ah inmate of Brockenhurst Hospital, Hants, Jgngland,, .suffering i rpm a wound in the head. ■ j The,Mends of Lance-Corporal A. E. Gorion, who went away with "Lord Liverpool's Own" on the sth of February last will be glad to learn that a cable received to-d/ay from France states he is quite well. Lance-Corporal Gorton,, it will Oe remembered, was for some time engaged sasJiier in the' Oolonej^'. W Ci - s Stratfojrd,' office.. A' Private : T. J.."jjorton, ..of" Medical i Corps^-Lsf.-on^.^ ■ Hospital,,/'^o^ke^hurstV ; He was formerly with Messrs Kerr and Co., Stratford. Rifleman H. Bennett, son of Mr J. Bennett, of Inglewoodj news of whose \ death in France has just been receivwas well-known in the Midhirst « district, where he was at one time •J employed in the Midhirst dairy factory, and was generally liked. He is a brother of Mrs G. E. Bocock, of the Skinner Road creamery, and of Mrs J 0. Boniface, of Palmerston North.; . Another sister is. N Miss Bennett, of Lepperton, while Mr G. W. - Bennett, Of Midhirst, is a brother.-