PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 187, 16 January 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

ilr Geo. Straek, B •A., assis'wvst master at the Kelburne School Wellington, lias been appointed special assistant at the 'Pat,'a District. High .School. -Mr Oco. .Straek, B.A'. assistant master settlers in the vicinity of Ashhurst, near Palnierston North, died this week at, the age of 77 A Melbourne cablegram states that Colonel I'ethbridge, Secretary for Defence, has been formally appointed Administrator of German New Guinea. New Britain, New 1 Ireland, Bougainville, and adjacent Wands, lately German possession's.

At the mooting of the Tara-iaki Provincial Executive of the New /calami Farmers' Union on Thursday, Mr 0.-11. linckeridtfe said he t%ftght it was fitting that the executive should move a resolution congratulating Sir J. 0. Wilson ti]io» the high honour which had been conferred upon him. He moved in this direction and Jlr •]. Davidson seconded. Messrs R. Dunn and JO. Maxwell also spoke in high appreciation <-f Sir .T. c. Wilson's services to t'he farming eomnninity and to the. country-a< a u-liol;. The motion was carried.

Advice h;is liven received from (ireat ■Britain to the effect tint <.'apk;'n C. \V. Melvill, of the South r.ancas'liin Regiment, was wounded in fiction at (he front. Captain Melvill Mates the Wvndhani Kanner) wa- for some 'time a well-known end popular pettier a! Seaward Downs, anil recent'c owned the <"!lenfaH:ieli station at Wo.repa, Clutha. Tre next joined the New Zealand defence Mr William Tlaynes, one of (lie early stall, and a f , the outbreak of war was service.

Two presentations were made t:> Major Fletcher in .Mr A. ii. .Standish's i-flico yesterday, on tiie occasion of his leaving to join the expeditionary force, ilr \Y. .IT. Armstrong, on behalf of the assembled law clerks, 'presciitud to the •Major who lias been in charge of tha stamps department of the Deeds office, a safety razor, and a case of cigarettes. He expressed the hope that Major Fletcher would return safe and sound. Mijor Fletcher thanked those assembled for lilieir gifts, and said he hoped to find them all "full-blown solicitors'' when ho returned from 'the wars Quarternmster-Sergt. F. Clarke then presented Major Fletcher with, a set of military hair brushes, on behalf of llhe X.C.O.'s of A Company, lith Regiment, and in a short speech wished the recipiuit all good fortune and quick promotion.

Lieutenant C. C. lies, of til.,, Army Modical Corps who diet! from wounds while on »otivo service serviea in North(ln France on Dei-ember l!)!h. was horn in WeHinjfton. and wag twenty-nine A cars of ago. Tie was a son '■<" \IV an<} .Mrs W alter lies. Ngatapa, Oistborne. L-eginning Irs education at t'n- Knikorni school, Onnedin lie jvasocd on to Hie Ot-ago Hoys' TTiftli -School ami O'a-'o t'niversit-y. At the latter he qualified in liis medical preliminary examination, afterwards proceeding to lCJi)ibnr"li to continue lns stndies-. In his first profes sional examination lie was one of the medallists in anatomy: I„ hie third lie i was prizeman in pi.blie health. mialifyin" for M.B. and Oh.B. decrees. Two years later lie obtained bis MVD., also D.T \f degree of Liver-pool. He was subse-oiu-ntly appointed assistant pathologist to the pathological, bacterial and clinical research laboratories of the "Royal Sussex Hospital, Brighton. He was recently elected a- Fellow of the flora! Institute of Public Health, London, and a'so obtained with honours the cliolom-a of Public Health of Trnland. On the declaration of war with Gornany, J)r Ties was amongst the first of the Nfew Zealanders to rff-r 1: hi-. - vices for the front.