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Taranaki Daily News, 22 June 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Corpora] Rudolf E. Heldt, kifted in action, was the son of Mr. T. Heldt, formerly of New Plymouth. He was an old boy of the Central School. Lieutenant J. A. Laing, of the Fifteenth Reinforcements, is in New Plymouth spending his final leave with his parents. He is accompanied by his wife. Mr. C. Warren, of Spotswood, has received a telegram from the Minister of Defence stating that his son, Private L. A. Warren, has been wounded in both legs and left knee on June 5.

The Stratford County Council, at its meeting yesterday, passed a vote of condolence with the relatives of the late H. IP. F. Ralfe, who was formerly a member of the Council.

Corporal D'Arcy Penwarden (late of Rahotu, and now "somewhere in Franco"), eldest son of Mr. T, B. Penwarden, of Oakura, has been promoted to the rank of sergeant. Mr. A. H. Osborne, youngest son of the Rev. S. S. Osborne, of New Plymouth, has enlisted at Invercargill, where he is now stationed.

At the Hospital Board's meeting yesterday the resignation of Sister McHaffie was .accepted, and the names of Misses Elsie Meredith (Wellington) and .Edna Stevenson (Auckland) were added, to the probationers' list.

Mr. T. P. Anderson, whom Messrs. Standish and Standish have recently admitted into partnership, was for sever*-' years managing clerk to Mr. Widdowson, now Stipendiary Magistrate at Dunedin, and since coming to Taranaki he has occupied important posts with well known legal firms in Stratford and New Ply-

mouth. Mr. T. P. Anderson, whom Messrs Standish and Standish have recently admitted into partnership, was for several yjjars managing clerk to Mr. Widdowson, now Stipendiary Magistrate at Dunedin, and since coming to Taranaki some nine years ago he has occupied important posts with well-known legal firms in Stratford and New Plymouth.

The relatives of Private T. C. Hopkins received a cable on Monday stating that he has been again wounded, in France on June 0. The nature of the injury was not stated. This makes the third time that Private Hopkins has been wounded, he having been shot in the foot while at Anzac, and in the arm at Suvla.

A quiet wedding was celebrated at the residence of the bride's parents yesterday morning, when Miss Olive Ambury, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Ambury, was married to Mr. Percy Stainton. Tlie bride looked charming In a cream gaberdine costume, trimmed with military braid, and wore a white satin hat. Miss Stainton, of Auckland, sister of the bridegroom, was bridesmaid, and Mr. W. Nicoll was best man. After

the wedding breakfast the happy couple left by motor for Wanganui. At the Nelson College Old Boys' Association's annual meeting on Saturday, it was aunoiOiced that two old hoys had recently been promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General, viz., W. J. T. Glasgow, of the British Expeditionary Forces, and E. W. Chaytor, of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. A considerable number of military honors have been won by Old Boys in both the British and New Zealand forces, and 33 old hoys have been killed.