PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 November 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. S. IVham a for'iet woll-knr.wj Kawhia and Raglan resident, is at pre< sent op a hoj>.l.:y visit to New l'iV< mouth. ,Mr. Pelham, who went t< Samoa with the relieving force, hn| been appointed dispenser to' the Hospital. Major .Tames Mcintosh Bell, son-in« law of Mr. Harold Beauehamp, chniix man of directors of the Bank of Neflt Zealand, haR been attached to th( Royal Highlanders of Canada, and ( i( r.ow in France. Major Bell was form< erly director of the Geological Survej, Department in New Zealand. He sulk, sequently held an important position i<| Canada, which lie resigned to enlist.

Captain Alfred Harvey, D.5.0., R.A'c M.C. is reported to have died of woundl' in Mesopotamia. He was the youlijrest son of the late Rev. Bache Wright Har« vev, D.D., a former headmaster of Wi« ngamii College, and had jnst completed his nudieat course in England when th» war broke out. His brother, Dr. Arthui Harvey, who for many years was in. practice in Waverley, is with the Zealanders at the front. ,

Mr. J. Priihnore, who joined the staff of Messrs. W. Gunson and Co., Auek< land, thirty-sis years ago, is-ninety years of age. Kefcrence *v«s made tq that fact at a farewell gathering iif Auckland this week in connection with the transfer of the business to Messrs Wright, Stephenson, and Co., and tlio hope was expressed by Mr. J. H. Gunson, Mayor of Auckland, that Mr. Pridmorti would reach the 100 years mark. . '