PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 October 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Privates E. James, W. Lawrence an 4 0. Huclcer are on leave of absence and visiting their relatives in Tariki. Sergeant G. T. Bertrand. a Umbul boy, has again returned to the front, after being twice wounded. Mr. T. C. Stannurs lias resigned the position of Registrar of Elector* for turnout, on account of ill health. 'Private R. .). Taylor, son of Mr. G. W. Tayler, of Eithain, bin' Wen- admitted u to King George's Hospital. London.

Mr. H. (i. Kicliard-.on, of Uruti, ha* received advice that his son. Private R. W. Richardson, has been wounded at the Dardanelles. The Rev. Henry .1. O'Dell. a Metliodist clergyman, of Taumarunui. has volunteered for active service in the' ranks and ha* been in-trnctcd to go into t-anip ou October 11th. Mrs. A. Simons, Tariki, lias received an official telegram notifying her that her son, Private A. Simons, who is in the hospital at Alexandria, is progressing favourably. Mr. A. I'. Thomson, manager of tin Inglewood branch of the Bank of New Zealand, who has been transferred t<> Whangarei, was farewelled yt a social gathering at Inglewood on Friday night. There was a large attendance and the" Mayor lMr. 0. Young) presided. Mr. H. F. Norman, senior overseer to the Pub lie Work* Department, ha* retired,on superannuation, afler thirty-six years and four months' -ervhc with the department. For Unity-eight years Mr. Norman was owr-eer for Otaao and Southland and for the past six years he has Hiled the position of senior overseer to tin> Canterbury di-uict. Mis retirement will date from December Slit, but Mr. Norman has been gsanted three months' leave of absence on full pay. . By the death of Mr. ITobert Hardie, whi.-ii occurred on H'cdnesuat. the Dominion loses one of its oldest public men (says the ChrMchurch Pressi, for it is liftv fears since Mr. Hardie came to New Zealand. The late Mr. Hardie was a native of Ayrshire. Scotland, and was bituiglil ii|i a- an aceomiiant in lifasuow, arriving in Auckland in 1830. He wa., for nine yen.-, in the North Island, and in 1.574 removed to Christchiircl.

.Dr. M. P. s. Aganoor. BiitWi Vicet'oi».ii] at Ispahan. Persia, who was killed during the recent revolt in tlu .Shiraz region. »a- a brother-in-law ni Mr. C. Thoma-. of Mataiawa. near Wanzaniu. He had been at Ispahan for (lie last eight or ten yea"-. A couple of yean ago. when there \va-. trouble in Persia. Dr. Aganoor -cut hi- wife with an arnied escort back to England via Northern •IVr-ia ami Asia Minor—a long and periloti- journey ivhkh occupied three mouths. Mr-. Aganoor is the only white woman known to have aetompl'fOie.l -n\ ■j journey on horseback.

Private information has been receive,.! in \ViU>a.nmi i -:iys the Chroniclef tut Lieut. If. M. Italienv.iHli has been killi'i! in action mi tiii' WeMcin front. 'Prior 10 tlii' war. Lieut. Rutlerworth wit* a master at tile Collegiate School for a number of year-. He went Home alter the war Ln.ke onl. and w,\, given a com. mission in (he Hille Drisade. Lieut. Butterworlh was educated at Marlborough and Oxford. He was a wellknown athlete, and at Oxford pained hi* ■'bine" for cricket, an injured trnee preventing him from winning a similar tiisfinction in football and an international cap in hockey. Tn Xew Zealand lie woa distinction iw a ovieketer. ami had represented the Dominion apainst Australia, lie was also a veil-known tennis player. As a master he was very popular, and his death will be regvetted by all who knew him.

Mr. P. Preo, who has occupied a position of responsibility in the service of the Riverdale Dairy Company, at Inaha, for a number of years, has been a.p» pointed manager of the Moa Cooperative Dairy Company's general store in the. Inplewood district. Mr. Preo'a departure from Munaia (says the local paper), will be a loss to sporting cirole*, in which he has been a conspicuous mm active figure, having been one of the founders of the Gun Club, and ha 9 in fact been always- in the forefront of every movement tending to the promotion of sport.