PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 8 July 1916, Page 5

PERSONAL

A London cable states that Lieut. Harold Fitzherbert, of the Sussex Regiment, whose home is in Wellington, New Zealand, lias been killed in France. A quiet wedding was celebrated at the residence of the bride's parents, Pembroke road, on Thursday, when Miss D, Mndford, second daughter of Mr. W. Mudford, Stratford, was married to Mr. G. T. Henry, eldest son of Mr. W. Henry, of Stratford. Mr. A. H. Featherstone, Frankley Road, has just received word that his brother, Lieutenant G. Featherstone, of the ltlth Middlesex B.E.F. (British Expeditionary. Force) lias been wounded somewhere in France, and also another brother, Captain O. Featherstone, who has been stationed in India with the 4th Queen's Royal West Surreys, has been appointed aide-decamp to the GovernorGeneral of Bengal. A Gisborne press message states that Mr. J. R. Kirk, one of Gisborne's foremost and most popular lawyers, and the immediate ex-mayor of the town, enlisted yesterday for service and passed the medical test. Mr. Kirk has just been re elected, for the third time, a member of the Hawke's Bay Education Board, and was a member of the Royal Commission on Education in 1012. He topped t.ie poll at the election of members in the North Island to the National ,Council of Education. He holds a commission of captain. At the Stratfo'.'d School yesterday, the teachers (presented Inspector Whetter (who is under transfer to Hawke's Bay) with a set of military brushes and a safety razor, as a mark of their appreciation of his services in promoting a high standard of educational wo'.'k in the district. Mr. Tyrer, in making the presentation, expressed regret at Mr. Whetter's dcpnrui'e, and wished him success in his new sphere of work. Other teachers joined in expressing their appreciation of Mr. Whetter's invariable kindness, courtesy and thoroughness. In the course of his reply, Mr. Whetter stated that there was not a lazy teacher in Taranaki.