PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 March 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Captain J. A. Wallingford, 3rd (Auckland ) Infantry Regiment, has reported at Trentham for instructions.

Tlie Hon. W. Eraser (Minister of Publie Works) proposes to visit the K&whia district this week.

Mr. E. A. Dargaville, of Auckland, is amongst- the latest men to be accepted for active service.

Mr. Edgar F. Stead, Christchurcli, ,has enlisted for active service as an electrical engineer.

Colonel Rhodes leaves Egypt for New Zealand on March 19, arriving April

A London message states that Mr. Asquith. was suffering from bronchial catarrh and did not attend the House of Commons on Tuesday. A London cablegram says that Mr. Hughes proposes to depart for Australia on April 1(1. and Sir Robert Borden will arrive in lCngland early in April.

Mr. Phil. Myers, so well known on this coast as a commercial traveller, has retired from the road after 30 years' work.

Mr. Kitchingman, of Ruhotn, has been appointed by the Opunake Town Board as its representative on the Egmont National Park Board.

Trooper Oilmour T. MeConnell, ef Hawera, is one of the invalided soldiers on the Tahiti, which arrived at Port Chalmers on Tuesday night.

Dr. Smith, District Health Officer for Wellington, it in Taranaki investigating the cases of infantile paralysis in this district.

Mr. Robert Spence, the Stratford solicitor, goes into camp at an early date. Mr. ,1. C. Nicholson, of Roy and Nicholson, solicitors, New Plymouth, is also about to leave for Trentham.

The Rev. W. H. Howea, of Manaia, has received a call to the pastorate of the Presbyterian Church, at Ranglora, in succession to the Rev. T. Miller, who has gone to Fcilding, Captain W. J. llardham, V.C., who j-eccntly returned from the front, was married at St. Peter's Church, Wellington, on Saturday afternoon to Miss Parsons, of Ohiro Road.

• Mesdames Knell and Greig, of Opunake, were tendered a valedictory social on Friday evening by the Egniont Patriotic Committee, of which institution they have been activi workers, Tlwy were not given any presentation, the net proceeds being devoted to patriotic purposes.

The youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Shields, formerly of New Plymouth, died at Patea on Sunday from infantile paralysis. The boy was only about three years old, and became ill last week with infantile paralysis, from which the eldest child is also suffering. Mr. W. H. Skinner, Commissioner of Crown Lands for Hawke's Bay for the past two years, and formerly of New Plymouth, has been appointed Commissioner of Crown Lands for Canterbury, with headquarters at Christehurch. The Hawke's Bay Herald says it is understood that Mr. C. R. Pollen, whose place he is taking, is retiring from the service, and intends taking up his residence in Auckland. A successor to Mr. Skinner has not yet been appointed.

Before proceeding with the business at the Waitara Harbor Board, 011 Friday evening, the chairman referred to the bereavement sustained by "Mr. W. T. Jennings, M.P., in the loss of another son—Lieut. Harold Jennings—who, though dying in Ireland at the rest camp, gave his life for his country as surely as did his brother on the battlefield. The members of the Board, standing, passed a resolution of sympathy with Mr. and Mrs. Jennings.