PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 June 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The sudden death of the wife of Mr L V^ Kay ' ° f .? ra " aifl ' is '"Ported. Mr. McKay was till recently a pro ln £ ent figure m football circles. Mr Hugh Bail,- 0 f New Plymouth, has received information that Ms son, Prf. vate Ronald Baily, went throurii the open.ng stages of the fighting It the Dardanelles without mishap, and was well up to about the middle of la*e month. ' ■ Sir Waller Buchanan, who hag W been called to the Upper House, was born in Argllshire in 1838, and emigrated to Victoria in 1857. Six years later he settled in Canterbury, and lh 18T1 he purchased a station" at Gladstone, where he lias resided since thai time. He :first entered Parliament aS member for Wairarapa South in 1881, and lie represented the Wairarapa al--est continuously until the gi neral i lection in 1914, when he was defeat* i Or Mr. J. T. M. Horn Ay. M'ljor John Ed« .1 JTume, offjeef commanding the Auckland dw*r!rt has been •promoted to the rank of lieutenant" clonel. Captain Noel Percv Adams, New Zealand Eicfld Artillery," who has been acting as camp adjutant at Trentham to Lieutenant-Colonel /Potter, has received his majority. Major Alfred da Batho Brandon, who has been in ?om« mand of the oth (Wellington) Regiment, with the temporary rank of lieutenant" colonel, has been retired with the nut of lieutenaiit-eolonol, and with permi* sion to wear the prescribed uniform.. 1 Recent Australian files containing cas* uany lists in.luile the mime of Clement '- Edgerton Wragge, one of the Queensland portion of the Australian Expeditionary, Force, among the Killed. He was tho eldest son of .Mr. Clement Wragge, the well-known 'meteorologist, who 5s at pr»« sent residing in Auckland. Private YVrairgn was one of those on board ths yae.lft Ariadne when she was wrecked OB! ~ • the New Zealand coast between Timaru and Oamaru. For some time he was in charge of the observatory on Mount Ko8« eiusko. Later on he assisted in the sox* vevs of the Scottish lakes, under Sis John Murray, of the Challenger, ami more recently, when he finished his medk cal course at Edinburgh, lie returned to' Australia with the object of accompany* ing Captain Scott on what proved to be hirt last cxnedition to the Antarctic. Mr. Clement Wragge has another son at thefront, who is a, corporal in the. Ambulance Corps.

A pleasing ceremony took place at tli« Kjrmont Pool Factory on Saturday, wlicri Mr. \V. Sadler, who is severing his comic, t'ioii with the lirra nftor twen-ty-throe years' service, in order to take u;> farming pursuits in tKe Auroa <!!!*■ triet, was presented with a massive «il. ver rose howl from his fellow-employees* The presentation was made bv Mr. W. Heals, who referred to the amicable tfi lations that had always existed between ' tins recipient and his fellow-employes, He also referred to tin: fact that Mr, , Sadler had for many years acted as see* ■ rotary to the union, and during (ihe whole period there had never been on* word of discord. Mr. H. Goodacre, pi* - prietor, spoke in terms of praise of the services rendered l.y Mr. Sadler, wnS , ' was one of n number of others at present with the firm who had been wltß ~ it for over twenty years. He also re- i ferred to the pleasant manner in which 1 Mr. Sadler had performed his duties as seemtary of the local branch of the Fed* oration of Bootmakers. They had noretf been troubled by friction during the' whole period, Mr. Sadler being an man for the position of intermediary between employer and employee. Mft Sndler had also been a useful member of the Brotherhood, which would raJaf ' liis services. Mr. floodncre urged his hearers to join the Brotherhood, which? they would find most helpful. iMr. Sad* lev, in returning thanks, said ho fetfc that he had only done his duty, which' he had always endeavored to do.