PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 November 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. W. A. McCutchan has been ra'« elected chairman of the Whangawomoni County Council.

Among those reported in recent casualty lists as killed in action appears the name of Private C, N. Furze (Mrs. M. C. Furze, Tikcrangi; mother). Mr. Joesph Dean, of Woodbury, onf of the oldest residents of South Canterbury, died on Thursday, aged S3 years, He leaves a widow and several children.

Rifleman C, N. f'iordge, whose father, Mr. W. Jj. C.ordgc, resides at Vogeltown, is reported to he seriously ill. Kifleman Ciordge was wounded in France on September 15.

Rev. Frank I-Tales, who for the pa?# Uiree months' has been filling the pulpit nf St.. Andrew's Baptist Church, New, Plymouth, was admitted into the Presbyterian ministry at the meeting ofi the fienoral A-sembly on Friday last.

The death is announced at Blenheim of Airs. Miilincton, relict of the late Air. T. W. Millington, a pioneer settler who hail,been identified with the history of .Marlborough since the earliest davs.

Advice lias been received that Private N. A. Hill, son of Mr. J. R. Bill, of New Plymouth, is still seriously ill at the New Zealand General Hospital at Brockenhurst. Private Hill is suffering from a gunshot wound in the leg. His right leg has been amputated.

Mr. A. ,T. Morton, Chief Inspector in the Taranaki Educational District, is confined to his home owing to illness. Mr, H. Dempsev, headmaster at the Central School, is acting as inspector until the end of the year, and Mr. R. J. McElroy is acting as headmaster at tho Central School.

The death is announced, at tile Advanced age of eighty-three years, of Mr,' James C'owio, one of the oldest residents of the Hawardcn district, Canterbury. Born in Stirlingshire, Scotland, in ISM, Air. Cowie early decided to seek his fortunes abroad, and in IS6O arrived in Lyttelton by the ship William Miles.

Dr. <Jilrnv, of Dnnedin, has been advised liv tlie War Office that his son, '2nd Lieut. C. M. Gilray, was admitted to the Ccneral Hospital at Etreat on November 10, suffering from gunshot wounds on tiic head and left side. Lieut, (lilray is the well-known Rhodes scholar and the Xew Zealand and Scottish international footballer.

Second-Lieutenant Melville Herborb Kay, of the Durham*, a X-ew Zealand farmer (killed in action), was the younger son of the Rev. Walter 'Herbert Kay. Born at Ilawera, he went with his parents to England at an early age, and was educated at a school for tha "sons of the clergy' 1 at Leatherhcad, in Surrey. Returning to New Zealand, aged 17, he engaged in farming in Banks Peninsula and Hawke's Hay. He offered his services when war broke out, but) was rejected, as he did not reach the height standard, lie proceeded to England and joined the Officers' Training Corps, received his commission, and was appointed to the Durham Light Infantry. He had been about a year France. Lieut. Kay was 2o years old. ,■