PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 July 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Sorgeant J. Rodger, a native of Cbript(liurch and a prominent athlete, ha* been awarded the D.C.M. for services ut the Dardanelles. 1 Private Fitzwater, who has returned from the Dardanelles, whore lie lost an ; pye, was on Tuesday evening entertained by Pa tea friends at a complimentary '<<■ tocial. ' . 1 Mrs. C. A. Howell, of Chat&worth * House, has received advice that her son, Gunner Win. Jennings Howell, who was nick, has now recovered and been sent " to the front. Mr. Flairley Clark Stewart, of the i'> Public Works Department, has bwtt passed as medically fit for the Reinforce- • ments, and will leave Stratford at *'* . • later date. ~ Lioutenant C, S. Geddis, of the Napier ferritori&ls, has received a commission nth the Mounted Rifles reinforcements. , tie has been attached to the literary >taflf of the Napier Dally Telegraph. A Sydney cablegram says that Dourt, ,he tennis player, who was refused when Ue attempted to enlist, owing to an ov»r- . lipping big toe, has had cut off, and v ivill again offer himself when the wouatl . Is healed. A Feilding telegram reports the death, if William Lisaon. Bailey, aged 78, Me if the gold-fields and saw-milling pio- • Beers of the dominion for over SO yearpv He has been residing in the Feilding.-' i district for some forty years. ■ &<s> A London cablegram records the death'■'* nf Lord Glentawe, at tho age of 80 years, He began life as John Jones Jenkins, a , tin-worker, and ultimately became one of the leading business men of Swansea, y'i He leaves two daughters, but the title.. • .**■ becomes extinct. V-' A letter received in New Plymouth • yesterday from Surgeon-Major G. Home told that he had returned to the Dardu- ' nelles from Alexandria, where he had been looking after wounded New £ea landers. / „■) Gunner O. W. (Whit.) Priest, who was '■*; Aounded at the Dardanelles, was for i ■ iome years living with his parents at 't Inglewood. Ho was educated at th» High School, Stratford, from there, be .. ivent to Palmerston North, joining the ■ staff of Abraham and Williams, and re- _.it fnaining there until he enlisted for i,ho front. •• t!' f Lieutenant Godfrey Clapliam Wolls, "ii rlio is reported wounded, is a son of Mr.. - /. M. Wells, a well known Waiigamti jiottler, and nephew of Mr. E. E. Welts, i>f l'atea, and was a student of tli6 lYangnnui Collegiate School. For tlie Jiast four years Licutenaut Wells . been n settler at TarTngainOtU VflUej\ ■, (vlng Country, and left New Zealand' ' iritl'i the Main Expeditionary Force la<t ' year, attaolied to the C Company, Xlth Parannki Rifles Regiment, Wellington Infantry Battalion. At yesterday's meeting of the T.ira-' laki Land Board it was resolved, on tin . !notion of Mr. J. Hcslop, seconded l»y ) Mr. C. J. Ryan: "That ou the occasion if the retirement of Mr. James Milef.enzie, 1.5.0., from the position of Un> v <\ fer--Secretary for Lands, thereby severity! his connection with the public service i; r If the dominion, after a continuous ■ fcrviee of over 48 years, the Land Board of the district, of which he was formerly' •ommissioner and chief surveyor, desii-69; r to congratulate him on completing so , long and honorable service in tlie Stai.o , pud public interest, and to express their fineerest wislies that he may yet con- v tinue to have many years of health and rigor to enjoy his well earned respite from active public duties."