PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 August 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

At a meeting of the Presbytery held at Hawera yesterday, it wag decided to extend Rev. Rosevcare's leave on account of ill health to three months.

At the Wealeyan Church on Beaconsfield Road, Stratford, on Wednesday, a presentation was made to Mrs. Rodgers, who is leaving tho district.

A Melbourne cable says that among the Morea's passengers are Mr. and Mrs. Birch and child, of New Zealand.

The death of Hiss Ethel Goodwin, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin, of Devon Street, occurred with startling suddenness on Wednesday night.

Mr. TI. A, Rowdcn, touring manager of Carroll's enterprises, Is at present in Now Plymouth making arrangements for the showing here next week of '•Bimty Pulls the Strings.' Mr. Arthur Morton was yesterday reelected chairman of the Mangorei Dairy Company for the twenty-first year in succession. Mr. Morton has occupied that position since the inception of the company.

Lieut. T. L. Buxton, who volunteered for service some months ago, has been notified toy the Defence Department to report himself in Wellington on Monday, and that he has been appointed permanent military quartermaster, with rank of captain, on the transports to and from Xew Zealand ,

About seventy guests assembled at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Danbin, Mangntoki, on Tuesday evening to bid farewell to the men of the district -who are leaving for camp. Mr. McGninne3S, on behalf of the parents, wished the boys good luck, ami spoke in the highest terms of tlio spirit which had prompted them to enlist.

Major J. fielhin Hughes, D.5.0., who went away with the Main Expeditionary Force on the staff of' General Godley, has received, his colonelcy, and is at present Commanding Officer of the- Canterbury Battalion during the absence of Colonel Brown, w,ho, after being wounded, was invalided to England. Mr. Sam Perth McNab, journalist and solicitor, a resident of Marlborough for over forty years, died in the Picton Hospital on Monday, aged sixty-three. He was born in Perth, Scotland, and educated at Owen's College, Manchester, graduating at London University. He was connected with the newspaper press -ia. Blenheim for some time, but for the greater part-cf the time which ho spent in that town he practised as a solicitor. Corporal T. Oscar Ross, Ist Canadian Contingent, the first man to win the DC.M. (for conspicuous bravery on the field of the Battle of Ypres)' is well known in Hawk'c's Bay. He arrived there at the age of fifteen, and worked for the Hon. .T. D. Ormond and Mr. R. I). McLean. After about ten years in the district he left for Canada, where, immediately after war broke out, he enlisted. Corporal Ross comes of a family of fighters and explorers. His grandfather was lost while with the Sir John Franklyn expedition to the North-West Passage.