PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 November 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The' Rev. T. Tait, Presbyterian minister at Port Ahuriri, has received and; accepted a call to Manaia.

The Hon. W. C. F. Carncrosa is a passenger by the Rerauera, due at Auckland yesterday.

Mr. A. W. Budge, of Stratford, was taken seriously ill on Friday, but a later report states there was an improvement in his condition.

Among the soldiers returning by the Riverina, arriving at Auckland ftbou* November (1, is H. A. Walter, nelt-oft kin, Chas. J. Walker, Tariki. Mrs. Dowling, head mistress'of the West End School, has received word that her son, Sergeant Bert. Dowling, is returning by the Maheno; which left England on October- 28.

Private Frank Shirley, of New Ply-, mouth, left last week for England, where he intends to work in munition factories. Private Shirley was severely] wounded at Gallipoli, and was invalided to England, returning to New Zealand foul or five months ago.

Archdeacon Reev*, of Wanganui, tytnf, tlie week-end at Eltham, where )>c fOi> ducted the services at tho Church oi England yesterday, the Hev. G. W. Dent of Eltham, officiating at Wanganni, Mr. W. James, of Rcll Block, formerly manager ot ilr. Newton King's HolsteW Stud Farm, is in Christchurch. where hi will judge the Holstein section at the Canterbury Show. Adjutant W. Winton, hitherto Ybunf People's secretary to tho Auckland division of the Salvation Army, has been appointed by the Defence Department to carry on chaplaincy work in Egypt. Mr. W. T. Grundy, who has been headmaster of the Wellington C)yd» Quay School since it was meted 2(1 years ago, has resigned.