PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 21, 19 December 1916, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr and Mrs L. Bush, late of Stratford and mnv of Heler.sville, are spending their holidays in this district.

Dr. H. D. Robinson, who it will btf remembered acted at locum tenens for Dr. Carbery, and is now an officer at the Walton-on-Thames Military Hospital, writes to say that he is well, and wishes to be remembered to ail friends.

On Thursday evening next, the settlers on Pembroke Road are taking advantage of the Christmas season :o make a special presentation to Mr and Mrs McKendry at a social gathering to be held in the Pembroke Roan School. The object is to mark the suppliers’ high regard for the faithful services of their Creamery Manager, iwho, for ten years, has never been absent from his duties for a single hour.

Friends of Licuteuaut Gray, recently of the Stratford Defence Office, and presently in charge of the Taumarunui area, will be interested to learn that he has been accepted for active service and leaves for camp in January. He was always very keen on getting away to the Front, and now his most earnest wish has been

gratified. All will wish him luck, knowing that lie will do las duty. Lieutenant Gray, in a letter .to a Stratford friend conveying the news, says he feels that he could not leave New Zealand without paying a visit to Stratford to see his many old friends, and he is looking forward to that time with the greatest pleasliffe.'

On Saturday last at the . Public Works Office, Stratford, Mr R. McIntyre, who goes into camp with the 21th Reinforcements on 2nd January, was presented with a safety razor on behalf of the other members of the staff. In making the presentation, H. H. Sharp (resident engineer) said be bad been called upon to officiate on a number of similar occasions, the recipients in some cases having gone to the front with the Main Body, and he was pleased to say that all those men were still alive and well. He sincerely hoped that the mascot they were giving to Mr Mclntyre would bring similar good fortune. They were sorry to lose him from the office, but at. the same time they were pleased that he was going to the front, as they all felt that it was the duty of every fit man to go. Mr McIntyre thanked all concerned for their present and good wishes, and i said that he would never forgetHietime he had spent in Stratford.