PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 June 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

. Mr. H, R. Kemp, of the Hawera port and telegraph odlce staff, is acting ac postmaster at Manaiu while Mr. (ioodger, the officer in charge, is absent oa his annual leave.

Dr. A. W. Averil!, Anglican Bishop of Auckland, who has been indisposed for wme time, has gone to Rotorua to undergo treatment.

Private James Loraine Rogers, mentioned in the latest casualty list as having been wounded in the left thigh and left shoulder, is a son of Mr. L. Rogers Warwick Road, Stratford. ' A Sydney cable itr.tes that two officers killed on the cruiser Defence, Commander Silvertop and Lieut. Renshaw, married Australians.

A Press Association telegram from Chrietchurch records the death of Mr. Watson F. Cooner, one of the oldest .printers in Canterbury. He had oeen in the Lyttelton Times office for fifty years. <

. Mr. Barry, Field? Inspector at Ohakune, has been transferred to New Plymouth in succession to Mr. FairfaxChomeley. who has been appointed to Hawera.

Adjutant and Mrs. Hultquist, who, during the past seventeen months have had charge of the Salvation Army Corpi and work in Napier, relinquished their duties there on Wednesday. They will arrive at Now Plymouth at the end of this, month.

Mr. Cilasson, Fields Inspector in the Agricultural Department, who is sta. tioned at Hawera, has been accepted for service at the front and goes into camp this month, with the rank of lieutenant. Lieut, filasson saw service oa an officer in the Boer wai. M

Private J. Petrie, son of Mr. J. Petrie, jeweller, of Stratford, who returned from London by the Athenie, arrived in Stratford by the mail train on Wodnea. day evening. ' Private Petrie met with a hearty reception at the station, and the Mayor (Mv. ,1. W. Boon), welcomed him back to Stratford.

Lient.-Colone! J. 0. Freeth (formerly of Masterton), Ims been awarded tho D.S.O. Colonel Freeth is commanding the 7th South African Infantry in East Africa. General Smuts' orders state that Colonel Freeth established and maintained a position on the north side of Keatta Nek, on the night of March 11-12, until 8 a.m. on the 12th, although only eighteen men of his battalion were with him.

Private Bell, of Opunnkc, a returned invalided soldier, arrived in Hawcrawith other returned men for the north ly the express train on Wednesday, .Tune 7th. The soldiers were lhet by the Mayor (Mr. E. Dixon), who welcomed fhem quietly. He explained that owing U. the sad news of Lord Kitchener's death, it was not a time for speechmaking. The returned soldiers said they quite understood the position, and apjieciatcd the action of the Mayor in coming to the station to weleom- them. A number of changes have just taken place in the Land and Deeds lVpn. tmeat. Mr. W. Johnston. 0 f X"'*ri». l>i» been appointed District Land Itfgistrar at Napier, in plac of Mr. V, 1.. Aspinall, deceased. Mr. R. IT. Tloiirkc. of Auckland, has been annotated DMrict Land Registrar' at Nelson, in the room of Mr. .Tohnstan. Mr. C. ]i. Koi-hh: of Auckland. Ins been nnpniitcl Irst-ns-sistant Registrar, in Mr. Hou>'-e"s place. Mr. A. H. Fletcher, of /nel.-lnnd. lias been appointed l')'»init>'-P"'»istrir nf Deeds, in place of Mv, Keen 1 ". Pid Mr. •T. Caradus. also of the Auckland offW, has been appointed sivnivl-iKsistnnt Registrar, in the pln»o of Mr. Fletcher.

Information hns Mis, "Ri-h----ardson, of Norman's TTill, Onohiinen. tli.it her son. Ilnrry Kichnrdson, hn« ri>reived the* Vintorh Cross. Private Richnrdson >vn* in the (lordon Tl r-»*-*-»i»-l----ers, and while net-ini; in cnrnnrM lie hold a redoubt, with o-ilv * , ' : 'fv-fi-c men fov four clnvs. YA'lmii -.•iin\v>:l l>e was taken to a hosnitnl in l'-mw, suffering fmm sc-crelv froit- ,,;, *<"- '»•>*, 'Private Tticharil*on wont. Oi-nnrrh tl.p fiorniiin Wo.-t AWenn ■•nm"» t "< '■»• ficiieral T'othn. wlipn lio wns wounled in tlip Viipc. When tiin fiv.-p.- -y-ri- .lU. handed of tor the nnn''ns"'ii 'in •••»<it Homo, nnd enlisted in the Oordon Highlanders.

Tlie dentil nt of Mr. Andrew Tliomson. nn o'd n"d restipptfitl resident is finiioiiiieed. TV deepened was a school teacher in tlie North Island from the early 'sivtios. Thrine tlie tronblesoine time of tlie Mwl war he was a teaeher tit Wairoa (Hawke's Ray), and at Turakinn. T.nter lip went to reside in Wangnnrii, where lie established nn ednpational seminary, one of his pupil* having been Mr. .Tust'oe S'm. The late Mr Thomson afterwards joined the service of the Wancramii Board, and was headmaster of the Bulls School for a lnimber of years. , He retired from active teaching work in 1805, nnd resumed his residence in Wnnganui where he. had since lived. • He took n "rent interest in church work, having been an elder of St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, Wnngamii, and for an unbroken period of ii 3 years he conducted n Sunday school class in whatever town he happened to be located. The late Sir. Thomson is survived bv a widow, five -r.-.s awl (!<•,. .Piur-litcrs'. the eldPSt son being Mr. A. I). Thomson, Assistant Public Service Commissioner,