PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 1, 25 November 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr J. T. Petrie, editor of the Greymouth Evening Star, has gone into camp with the 23rd, Reinforcements.

A London cable reports the death of Sir George White, the pioneer in electric street traction.

Mr J. McCormick, the golf professional, has enlisted with the 24th Reinforcements, and will leave Invercargill for camp this week.

Mr Joseph Bicknell, of "Willow Brook," Puketapu, a well-known settler of Hawke's Bay, died on Thursday at the age of 63 years.

Lance-Corporal P. Lloyd-Parry, New Zealand Rifle Brigade, whose brother, Mr 0. Parry, resides at Manaia, has been reported wounded.

Mr and Mrs P. R. Stewart left en route for Hokitika by this morning's mail train, a very large number of friends being on the platform to wish them g«od-bye.

Bishop Cleary lias cabled to Monsiguor Mahoney: "Going to fill vacancy in, chaplaincy in France. The work is urgently needed. My health has greatly improved. I have been chaplain in an English camp hospital."

The death from pneumonia of Sir H. Maxim is reported from London. Born 'in Maine, U.S.A., he was 75 years of age. He was the inventor of the automatic system of firearms and did much in electrical and aerial inventions.

Mr Hugh Hunger, of the Manaia staff of the Bank of New Zealand, who has received notice of transfer, was i'arewelled by a number of friends at the Manaia Town Hall. During the evening Mr Hunger was presented with a thermos flask and a pocket-book.

Sergeant It. N. Gray, N.Z.M.C., tho eldest son of the Kev. E. S. Gray, of Dunedin, has been awarded the Military Cross. Sergeant Gray left New Zealand with a special base hospital detachment connected with the 2nd Battalion of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade.

After several suggestions to suitably commemorate the death of Dr. A A. Martin, of Palmerston North, it has been decided to erect an X-ray and Bacteriological Institute at the Palmerston North Hospital, and to place a bust of the kte Dr. Martin in the grounds of the hospital.