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Taranaki Daily News, 20 March 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London cable says that the City of landon proposes to confer the Freedom of the City upon Mr. W. M. Hughes, Mr. S, G. Smith has been appointed by the Government a member of the New Plymouth High School Board of Governors.

Mr. D. Harker, of New Plymouth, has been called up as. an n.c.o. to go into camp in April. He leaves here this week.

Nurse Sinclair, who has been visiting New Plymouth on leave from the front, returns to Wellington this morning, and expects to return to Egypt shortly. Mr. Hill McGowan, cousin of the late Hon. James McGowan, has died at Gisborne, where he resided for the last 43 years. Deceased had attained his seventy-fifth year. The Roman Catholio Bishop of Auckland, Dr. Cleary, leaves this week for Home. The trip is being taken partly on the advice of the Bishop's medical advisers. Dr. Cleary expects to return at the end of the year. Gunner P. Austin, N.Z.F.A., of Taranaki, late of Matemateaonga, who has been serving with the Main Body of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, has sufficiently recovered to be on furlough, say* a London correspondent. Mr. C. E. Blayney, of Hawera, has obtained a, commission as second-lieu-tenant in the Royal Flying Corps, and j lias been stationed at the Curragh Camp, 'in Ireland, since the beginning of January (writes a London correspondent). In his leisure he has been taking trips into the surrounding country on a newly-purchased motor cycle, but he is expecting to be transferred to a flying school in England in the near future.