PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 December 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. IT. Baily leaves on Monday for Wellington, cik route to Ficton and * Pelorua Sounds, where he intends spending a few days. The London Tildes aays ( that Sergt.Major Livesey, of the New Zealand Riflo Brigade (Lord Liverpool's Own), who is spending a few days' leavo in this country after taking part in much of the recent lighting 011 the Somme, is 04 years of age. Nearly thirty years ago he was in the employment of the Times as a commissionaire. Formerly sergeantmajor in the Scots Guards, he saw service in the Masbona Rebellion, the Matabele War, th'.- Boer Wnr and the Zulu Rebellion. On the outbreak of the present war ho gave up sheep-farming in New Zealand and came to Egypt with tiie first Xew Zealand Contingent. Of his six sons, who were in England, five were killed in the early montJia of th* war fighting in British regiments, and the sixth, who holds a commission, ex- ' peets to go to the front before long. .

Chaplain-Captain Mulineaux; to us» liis camp title, whose fame as t footballer is world-wide, who was . rmerly a chaplain in the navy, and who acted as chaplain in the New Zealand training camps for the past four months, has decided to give up that work and proceed, to the front as a field secretary for the Y.M.O.A. All ranks at Tauherenikau anil l'Vabherston camps, where Chaplain; Mullineaux was stationed, and at Trenthain, where ho is at present in charge,, have expressed appreciation of his work. Tho news of his early departure will come as a surprise to them. In conversation, Chaplain Mullineaux stated that ho desired a freer linnd to, work among the soldiers than the Church Military Committee had been able to give him in the camps. He realised that the Church was not anxious for him to go in s|ie role of a Y.M.C.A. secretary, but the conditions of his appointment as a camp chaplain were such that ho felt there was nothing for him to do .but resign. Ilis resignation bad been accepted and would date fijphi December 31