PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 August 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Amongst those reported in yesterday's casualty list as having been admitted to hospital was Sergeant Alfred L. Salmon (next-of-kin, Mr. T. H. Salmon, Hawera, father). The shareholders of the Taranaki Oil and Freehold Company last night passed a resolution of sympathy with the rela lives of the late Lieut. G. W. Henderson, who was one of the shareholders in the company. Mr. G. W. Sampson, Chief Postmaster at Wanganui, who has been fifty years in the service of the Post and Telegraph Department, is retiring from the service. He has been in Wanganui now for several years, and is well respected there. He is being succeeded bv Mr. W. Bcswick, the late Chief Postmaster at Palmerston North.

Sergeant E. A, Norris, whose name appeared in the casualty lists on Wednesday, as having died of wounds on August 13, was the son of Mr. Arthur Norris, a former resident of New Plymouth, and for many years an •employee of the Government Printing Office at Wellington. Ho served his time as a primer in the Taranaki Herald office. Mr. Frederick George Smith, who died at Lower Hutt on Sunday, at the age of eighty-two years, was an old resident oi Wellington. Ho arrived here with his wife and family in the ship La Hogue forty-two years ago, and resided in Newtown, where he was one of the earliest settlers. For upwards of thirty-fiv» years he was employed at Messrs E. W. Mills and Co.'s Lion Foundry as a moulder. The deceased leaves a widow, four daughters and three sons. Mr. Paul Willcox, of Rahotu, has arrived at Monmouth, his native home, after an absence of forty years. His home-coming (says the Monmouthshire Evening Post) was tragic, for Mr. willcox's wife, who was paying her first visit to England, also after an absence of forty years, died on board ship in the Indian Ocean, from sunstroke, and was buried at sea. Mr. Willcox was prepared to give £IOOO so that his wife'a remains could be brought on to Colombo, but this could not be done. The regulations had to be complied with. Trooper R. H. Lambie, reported killed in action, was a well-known farmer in the Ashburton county, and a son of Mr, and Mrs. John Lambie, of Kyle. His father, who was for many years a member of the Lyttelton Harbor Board and Ashhurton County Council, predeceased him about a year ago. Trooper Lambie was a member of the Ashburton Mounted Riiles, and a first-class rifle shot. He also achieved prominence as a long-dis-tance runner. Leaving his farm under management he went with the Sixth Reinforcements, and saw the concluding phases of the Gallipoli campaign. Since then he had been fighting in Egypt with the mounteds until killed on the 9th hist., in the gallant charges at El Rumania