PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 June 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Private W. 0. Hill, son of Mr. <L HU|, of Eltham, has been wounded. He weht' through the Somme battle unscathed. Mr. F. H. Hogg, of New Plymouth, ■ has been appointed working overseer to the Moa Road Board. Mr, B, Codd, of Inglewood, has been ' advised that his aon, Henry A. Codd, hat • been killed in action. Mrs. C. Evette, of Inglewood, has been advised that her son Percy w«s woundtd on June 9. Mr. and Mrs. Len. Bell, of Kaltaia, , formerly of this district, are spending a few days here with Mrs. Bell's parents, ' Mr. and Mrs. J, (Rutherford. A Wnnganui message reports the death, of Mr. James A. Yourig, manager of the • Chronicle, who was prominent and successful in commercial circles. Mrs. F.i L. Wheeler has received advice that her husband luii been'wounded in the left side and admitted to hospital. Mr. B. Gillbanks, Spotswood, reeelvtd cable advice yesterday that his son, Privato K. J. Gillbanks, has been slightly wounded and admitted to hospital, The call from St. Andrew's congregation, New Plymouth, to the Bcv. Osoar Blundell, of To Aroha, has been sustained by the Presbytery of Taranaki, Mr. J. M. Parli, of Inglewood, hat received a cable message stating that his son Phil is now in Walton-on-Thames Hospital, having been gpssed on June 0. He was in the Lewis gun section. Mr. W. White, one of the inmates of the Wellington Home for Aged Needy, celebrated his 101st birthday on Monday. In honor of the event, the chairman of the board'of trustees paid a visit to the home, and dined with the veteran. Mr. White is one of a family of seven, and was born in London, his father being a stonemason. A good deal of his life hat been spent in Australia, but the la|t forty years in New Zealand. / The names of the following Taranakl men appear in Wednesday's casualty list:—Died of wounds—F. S. R. Karalns (Mrs. M, A. Karalus, Tariki, mother), L. L, Newlove (Mrs J. Newlove, Now Plymouth, wife), D. J. Shewry (R, E. Shewry, Hurimoana, father). Woundedt J. G. Hughes (Mrs. E. J. Hughes, Ntw Plymouth). Dangerously ill: D. Langley, New Plymouth. Seriously UliO. J. Randall, Taranaki. Severe cases: Lieut. K. S. Ewing, New Plymouth; F. Hanan, L. Mercier, A. T. Wasloy (Hawera), Lt. L. Allen (Hawera), K. F. Andrews, J. L. Edwards (Waverley); P. G. Law (Hawera) ; Sergeants A. B. Matthews (New Plymouth); K. H. Shlpton, New Plymouth.