PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 February 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A Berlin official message announce the death of Admiral Poll!, ex-chief of the Fleet. Foreman M. Carey, of the Patea Fire Brigade, received last night at the hand* of the Mayor the U.F.B.A. gold star for 25 years' service. Commissioner Hodder and Brigadier Bray, of the Salvation Army, left Auckland on Tuesday by the Niagara tw Suva. They will probably establish .a branch of the Salvation Army in Fiji. Mr. F. Eberlet. who has been in charge of the New Plymouth telephone exchange for the past nine years, retires on superannuation at the 6nd of the present month, after 35 years service. Dr. F. Dewsbury Pinfold, senior houtt surgeon at the Waikato HospitaJ, lias resigned from the staff, and is offering his services to the Defence Department. A Sydney cable announces the death of Captain Frederick Bracegirdle, a veteran shipmaster, formerly of the Kaikoura, trading to Wellington. Miss E. Kebb, of the flisborne telephone exchange staff, has received notification of transfer to New "Plymouth, wlierc she will take up her duties a« assistant supervisor on the telephone e<« change. Mr. H. J. Clemanoe, special assistant at the Eltham District High School, has just received instructions to proceed to the training camp for non-commissionej officers on Saturday next. His successor will be Miss White, L.L.A. The Rev. Can«n Tuke, of Napier, who fell while attempting to board a moving train at Dannevtrke on Friday last, and received several nasty cuts about his head, is progressing well, and should be about agaia In a few days. Chaplain-Captain .1. R. Sullivan, who went to Gallipoli in the ranks of th* original New Zealand Expeditionary Force, and who is in Auckland to attend the Methodist Conference, has received notice that he has been posted to the Tenth Reinforcements.

Mr. .T. C. X. Grigg, vice-president of the Board of Agriculture, will leave Xew Zealand' shortly on a visit to England. At the last meeting of tbe Board members expressed their appreciation of the valuable services he had rendered to the Board during the past two-years, an 4 expressed the hope that as he was only leaviag the country temporarily h$ would not resign his position. Mr. J. Little, of Sentry Hill, has received cable advice that his son Norman has been successful in obtaining liii B.A. degree and partial L.L.B. Mr. Norman Little has had a very successful scholastic career. At T.epperton school, wb»n he was 11 years old, he secured a junior Education Board scholarship. He then attended the New Plymouth High School, where he gained other scholarships, and three years ago annexed a Taranaki scholarship of £OO, tenable for three years at the university. He has since attended Victoria College, and has never yet failed in any examination. He is now 21 years of age. and though another year at the university would on able him to complete his LL.B., he ha\ answered the country's call and is »o\> at Trcntham as a non-commiisionc! officer, on probation, for the Fourteenth Keinforcements.