PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 April 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A Sydney cablegram states that Mr. Wade lias been appointed Agent-Gen-eral for New South Wales. Mr. A. i\V. Gillies, late of Hawera, is acting as expert adviser to'the National Efficiency Commission in Auckland. A London cablegram reports the deatli at the age of 82, of Lord Muncaster, who was connected with tlio extraordinary brigand tragedy at Marathon on April 21,1870. A London cable states that Archibald Smith, captain of the btaki, who was killed while fighting the Moewe, wouli have taken the position of marine superintendent of the New Zealand Shipping Company in New Zealand on the completion of the vessel's outward voyage. A recent hospital progress report contains the following:—Dangerously ill: Private E. L. Drake (Inglewood), Private C. T. Hill (Patea). Removed from dangerously ill list: Private E. .Colson (Eltham). Not reported as severe cases: Private J. Bcrtrand (Uvcnui), Private H, E. Hamblyn (New • Plymouth). Members of the Hawera Golf Club on Friday afternoon bade Godspeed to two of their number, Messrs G. M. Dailey and J. Bayley, who go into camp after Easter. Mr. R. D. Welsh, on behalf oS the club, presented Mr. Dailey with a safety razor and Mr. Bayley with a case of pipes. The president (Mrs. E. 0. Blamires) mentioned at the annual meeting of the Phinket Nurse Society at Hawera on Friday that Mr. and Mrs* H. A. Foyster, who had while in Hawera taken a keen interest in the Society, were about to take up war work in England.. Mr. Foyster had been accepted for service, and Mrs. Foyster had decided to do munition work.

Six of the eight sons of Mr. 0. Barnard, secretary of the Eltham Dairy Company, have done service to the Empire, and the family has paid heavily in casualties for its patriotism. The eldest and third sons were through the Gallipoli campaign, and have returned to Now Zealand wounded, and been discharged as unfit for further service. The second son, Harry, who was a law clerk in Auckland before ln s enlistment, was also on the peninsula, and lies sleeping near Suvla Bay. He landed on Turkish soil with the Main l'ody, and was fortunate to get through all dangers until the fatal August 8, when he was shot down while trying to carry a wounded comrade to a dressing station. The fourth son saw active service in France, and is now quarter-. master-sergeant at Sling Camp, in England. The fiftli. is still facing"the foe ,jn France, and the sixth has almost completed his New Zealand training, and will leave with an early reinforcement. The other two boys are not yet old enough to enlist.