PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 September 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The Stratford School Committee, on Tuesday right decided to send a letter of sympathy to Mr. N. J. King in hi« illness.

The executive committee of tot Stratford Patriotic Society feu appointed Mr. W. (P. Kiifevrooa cfafonan for t*e ensuing year. '

Before leaving Haver* to join the training camp at TVentham, Mr. Ottude Harrison, a keen supporter of local hookey, was presented by the members of the Kival OWb with a case of pipes and a sflver-monnted tobacco pouch. Trooper Iterance Malone, who was wounded at Che DardaneUs*, says in, a letter to bis brother, Mr. Brian Malone, that hia leg is still stiff below the knee, but otherwise is well. He expected to be in England for some time. Mrs. Malone was as well as could be expected after receiving the news of the late Colonel** death.

Corporal 0. T. McDonald, of the Wellington Mounted Rifles, and son of Mrs. MoDonald, Brassey. Street, Waverley, has been admitted to the American Women's Hospital, Paignton, suffering from wounds received at Gallipoli. Mrs. McDonald has received a letter congratulating her on the distinguished services of Corporal McDonald while at the front. .The death of Mr. Thomas Brown, brother of Mr. William Brown, of Cardiff, is reported. The late Thomas Brown was born in Count Down, Ireland, in 1848. He arrived in New Zealand in the CSthcart in 1878, and after farming in North Canterbury for many year* he came to Taranaki about 1900, where he resided until the time of his death. Mr. H. J. Barnard, Eltham, has received word from the Minister of Defence that his son, Private Frank A. Barnard, who at one time was in Mr. Wilkinson's employ, is slightly wounded, and had been taken to the hospital at Malta. Mr. Barnard has had one son killed in action, another badly wounded, and Prank is the third of five who have gone to the front.

Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Baily, of New Plymouth, received a cable ye»t«d»y conveying the news that Private Ronald Baily's injured leg had been amputated above, the knee. Private Baily left New Zealand with the main body of the Expeditionary Force, and wag Bent some weeks ago to the Fulham Hospital (Kngland), having been wounded in the leg The cable odds that his condition U serious.

The death is announced at Melbourne on the 13th inst of Mrs. Elizabeth Carey, mother of Mr. M. Carey, of Patea. The deceased who had reached the ripe age of 86 years, was well-known to old residents in Taranaki having landed in New Plymouth in 1863, where she lived for a couple of years, afterwards coming on to Patea where she resided with herhushand the late Mr. M. Carey, senr., till 1884, when she removed to* Melbourne. The deceased's late husband, Mr. M. Carey, was a member of the 06th Regiment and served throughout the Maori War, and at its close carried on (be business of wheelwright in Patea. The deceased lady is survived by a family of four sons and four daughters, one of the latter being Mrs. R. Willi*, snr., of Patea.

Gunner George Victor WakeflelJ Falder, news of whose death from enteric at Malta Hospital lias reached hi« parents at Stratford, left N T e\v Zealand with the 2nd reinforcements and spent three nnd a half months in the trenches at Gallipoli. He was born in Adelaide in 1893, and came with his parents to New Zealand the same year. He was educated nt Kaikorai School (Dunedin), Wellington South, and Wellington District High School and Wellington College. From the District High School he passed the junior civil service examination at the age of U, and matriculated at 13. He left Wellington four and a half years ago to engage in farming with his parents near Stratford. As a boy he was prominent in the Y.M.C.A. cricket and football teams, was fond' of sport, a good tennis player, and keen on military matters, being a sergeant in the, local territorials.