PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 56, 3 October 1916, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr W. H. Cook, of Hastings, has been appointed Engineer to the New Plymouth Borough Council.— Press Association. In a cable from London to his parents, Gunner A. Edmund Huse states ' that his wound is in the thigh, and that he is progressing favourably. The death is reported from Sydney of George Moofe, a veteran cricketer The Be 9/ J john Osborne, a veteran Presbyterian New South Wales, has services to the Forces. An Auckland' Press Association telegram states: Emily Jane Mason, 38, wife of a wharf labourer, who fell when leaving a tram and was seriously injured about her head, died in the hospital. On Saturday afternoon last, Mr M. W. Priest,- auctioneer j and . stock salesman at the local branch of the Loan and Mercantile, was presented , with a silver tea service, on the occasion of his severing his connection with the firm to join Mr Newton King as Kphuratahi representative. ' Mr W. A. Hewitt, manager, made the presentation, and on behalf of the staff, said all were sorry to lose Mr Priest ,elght and a-half years’ Mr 'aW'Mrs 'R. Aldridge, of the Pembrolie'Roidv ar o among 'be many families'udlo Ste sorrowing the loss of a loved*"’one owing to the war, and the sympathy of many "friends will go out to them on the death of Thomas Benjamin, the fifth pn of the family, V whose age was 22. Private Aldridge , fell fighting for his country in the rey cient action in France. Among the messages of condolence that have reached Mr and Mrs Aldridge is one from His Excellency the Governor, conveying the Royal sympathy, anil one from the Hon, J. Allen (Minister • of Defence.) Amongst ( those killed in action appears the name of Captain Douglas Playfair Fraser, aged 28,’ ,who was well-known in Stratford, having been for a short time engaged in the Stratford office of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Captain Fraser was associated with the late Sergeant-Major Bonar, and was regarded as a very popular officer when in command of No. 95 Company, Stratford Senior Cadets. He left Stratford in February, 1914, to join his father in business at Timaru, when he was appointed as Lieutenant in the Transport Corps. The late Captain Fraser was an esteemed friend of the late Captain T. P. James, of Stratford, who also gave his life for his Country.

Mr Jack Lister, of the staff of

Messrs .Chas. Martin and Co., Stratforl, received word yesterday from the Minister of Defence that hi., hrother, Private Harold Lister, had been wounded by a shell shot in France and had been admitted to hospital on September 13. The wounded man adds another to the sacrifice that Toko has made to the Empire, for he was a resident of that district before he went to ‘4be Avar. Ho was a-great chum of the late Private Stan. Metcalfe, Avhose death in actjiopf Avas reported last Saturday. They went to school together in England and together they came out to Now Zealand; together they enlisted in the' 3rds and Avent to Gallipot. Here Private Lister Avas injured, and on recovery he Avent back to the trenches. Noav, Stan, is in a soldier’s grave and Harold is in hospital as the result of their participation in the Great Push fo Right. It is evident both Avere sports of the right color and all Avill regret fhe sad sequel.