PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 71, 20 October 1916, Page 3

PERSONAL.

Mr Chris Randrnp, of the International Harvester Co., Christchurch, has joined the machinery department of Mr Newton King’s ’Stratford branch. A cablegram received yesterday states that Lance-Corporal H. W. C. Guppy, who was wounded in the head and admitted to the second London Hospital on September Kith., is progressing favourably. The Hon, W. C. F. Carheross,. Sir iannki Carroll, and Mr E. P. Lee, VI.P., three of the representatives of

the New Zealand Legislature. who visited England as guests of the British Parliamentary Association, are expected to return -to. the.. Dominion in about three weeks’ time. Private Frank Gladding, 22mi Reinforcements, writes to the editor of the “Post” to express his appreciation of the presentations made by the Stratford patriotic committees on the day of his departure for the front. They came to all the boys as an agreeable surprise, and immediately on getting into camp were found to be extremely serviceable. Sergeant Charlie Welstefy (youngest brother of Mr F. W. Webster of Stratiord) who has been seriously ill at the Hospital with pnlerisy and subsequently pneumonia, has,cabled to his parents at New Plymouth tl|at ; .lit> is invalided borne and 1 /js. sii<tqj!ijing 1 to View Zealand by the Mahenq, which is expected to leave Englpig), at the end of the present montfh. When playing at “leap-frog” a few day ago, Ivan, the son of Mr W. A. Hewitt (manager of tlie New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company) met with an accident to his foot by jumping on a broken bottle. Dr. Steven attended the little sufferer and stitched up his foot. He is now progressing favourably, though unable., to attend school. Miss Bqs.sie Rodgers, a member, of., the special class for probationers at the Stratford school, has succeeded in passing what is called the Terms Examination—the first of the B.A. degree. Two Stratford boys who recently left the home school, viz. (t,,,Rogers and G. Saunders, have , alsq.J.'UK’efieded. in. getting their first pass, j hu|ij f thjs ~is,.towards the . degree ,il/, ~i;iw. Master 'Saunders got a. first pass in English ’and in Latin, and Master Rodgers a first in Latin.