PERSONAL.
Sergeant D. A. Lust, Canterbury Yeomanry, who was a member of the Main Expeditionary Force, lias been granted a commission in the Imperial Camel Corps. Sergt. Lusk's promotion is on merit, as he left New Zealand as a trooper. .Ha is an "old boy" of the New Plymouth High School.
Colonel C. M. Gibbon, L.G.S., Chief of Staff to the New Zealand Forces, and who held the rank of brevet lieutenantcolonel in the Imperial Forces, has been granted' the temporary rank of colonel to his regiment (Royal Irish Fusiliers), while employed as Chief of the Generaj Staff in New Zealand.
Corporal Harold Masters, of tho New Zealand Engineers (youngest son of Mr. J. Masters, of Stratford), who'went with the New Zealand Main Body to Gallipoli, ■was at latest advices still in t'he fighting line in Frar.oe. Confirmation has also arrived of the fact that Corporal llasn tors was specially mentioned in dispatches by general Monro for eonspieuoua services rendered during the evacuation of the Gallipoli Peninsula. Among the non-commisisoned officer* 01 the Seventeenth Infantry who liavo heen appointed second-lieutenants on probation, and will be 'held back to bs drafted to subsequent reinforcements, are Sergeants ftobert Spenee and S. Macalister (Stratford) and D. A. Harla (Xew Plymouth). Trooper Harold Street, who is now. ''somewhere in France," writing to a New Plymouth friend, says that he is fit and well. Trooper "Ted" Avery, who waa in Kgy.pt at the time of writing," was wefi. He states, in a letter to Mr. E. Elliott, that the little hovse presented to him was still going strong. Tho following Taranaki names «p* .peared in yesterday morning's casualty list:—Slightly wounded', hut remaining with unit, Rifleman .T. P. Glentworth (next-of-kin., H. Glentworth, Urenui); seriously ill in Walton-on-Thames Hospital, Rifleman Roland iP. Best (next-of-kin, A. J. Richards, New Plymouth); removed from seriously 'ill list and progressing favorably, GunWr Walter H. Franks (next-of-kin, W. H. Franks, Riverleft, Taranaki).
■ Mr. Victor Grayson, who has the dia<* tinction of being the first Socialist member of the British House of Commons returned as such, is now in Wellington, He lias been engaged in free lance journalism and lecturing in. Australia for some months, and is now touring the Dominion accompanied by his wife, who is a member of the Allan Wilkie Dramatic Company now playing in Wellington. Mr. Grayson is"S'ery favorably impres- v 'aed with New Zealand, having been
through the North Island and says it is not improbable that he will settle i* the Dominion and enter political life^
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 September 1916, Page 4
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