PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 314, 14 June 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London cablo states that Dr. J. E. White, of New Zealand, hag been made a Fellow of the College of Surgeons.

Mr. Sydney Ward has tendored his .resignation as secretary ol the Stratford A, and P. Association.

Dr. Bex Brewster, who has not long started practice in New Plymouth, has volunteered for the front ia » medical capacity.

Mounted Trooper W. A, McK. Hastie, who was killed in action at tho Dardanelles, was a Taranaki boy, being a son of Mrs. A. J. Hastie, of Hawera, but lately residing at New Plymouth. Amongst the casualties reported this morning appears the name of SergeantMajor McGlade, who was instructor tit Hawera prior to leaving for the front with the first contingent. Reference to his death was made by Daan Power at tha Hawera. Roman Catholic Church yesterday. The death took place at Hawera yesterday of Mr. S. A. Breaoh, whose wif* died but a few days before. MMlreach, who was about 79 years of ajpHvas a ▼cry old Taranaki settler, being one of the pioneers of the dairying industry, having a factory of his own at Opunake. He subsequently lived in Manaia, but of late years, he resided at Hawera.

The Ret. Father Coffey, administrator pf St. Joseph's Cathedral, Dunedin, who is this month celebrating tho silver jubilee of his ordination to tho priesthood, was presented last week at the Bishop's palace with a substantial cheque by his fellow-priests of the diocese of Dunodin in recognition of his valuable 6ervices to the Church in New Zealand.

Private Holger, B. Randrup, who lius just been killed in action at the Dardanelles, is the younger brother of Mr. 0. A. Eandrup, Taranaki manager for the International Harvester Company. He was educated at Stanley Road Bchool, wont to Stratford District High School, where ha matriculated, and took his B.A. when 18 years of age. He Entered the Civil Service at Wellington, being subsequently transferred to the Land and Survey Department. Then he went to that office at Auckland, where ho was when he joined the first contingent. Both parents are at Cambridge. Holger is remembered in Stratford as a good footballer and cricketer.

A wry pleasing ceremony took place at the Winter Show on Saturday evening, when the members of the committee assembled in the press-room for the purpose of bidding farewell to Mr. Lewis Jackson, one of the Society's most energetic workers, who is leaving New Plymouth this week in order to follow agricultural pursuits in the Tweed River district, New South Wales. Mr. J. S. Connett, president of the A. and P. Society made the presentation in a suitable speech, while Messrs G. IW. Browne (vice-president) and F. Watson also spoke. The president, on ibehafl of the committee, presented Mr. Jackson with a silver cake dish, hot water kettle, and cream and sugar receptacles for Mrs. Jackson, and also on behalf of the society presented him with a gold medal, suitably inscribed, conferring life membership upon him. Mr. Jackson suitably replied.