PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 September 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A Paris cable ..states that M. Halve?, Minister for the Interior, has resigftej. - Mr. Jas. E. Corrigan was on Saturday elected chairman of directors of the'i,Ha« w.era Dairy Company, in, suceessioii t» Mr. 11. Spratt (resigned). Eifleman F. lander, ofjjhe 30th ifeinforcemehts, now on final leave, was o» Friday presented with a smoking outfifc by liis late employer (Mr. J. McNeill) and staff. r "Mrs. K. W. Hine, of sew Plympiith, who -received word: last 'week tb«tf; her brother, Private Karl,. Franks, 'svas wounded, has now been advised thftt ho has died of wounds. i ■ Dr. Leatham was ; a passenger by, the mail'train on Saturday, en route to, Gfcborne, where he will inspect the X-ray appliances at the hospital,,in furtherance of his commission to report on the radio equipment throughout the Domini^ •Passengers by the mail train from Wellington on Saturday included Messrs H. J. Okcy. M.P. for Taranaki, who &tme through to i\ T ew Plymouth; and Mi, C. A. Wilkinson, M.P., and the Hon. >V. C. Garncross,, M.L.C., who detrained afc Eltham. , <' Privates W, Aitken and Fred Ha.yk«, who are proceeding to camp this rooming after their final leave, were the re> cipients of further tokens of the goodwill and esteem in which, they are, held by the "sports" of the town, On Saturday night in the Criterion Hotel,'each was presented with a Gillette safety razor (neatly initialled)' and a money' belt. • ■ ' /• Mr. J. Hoskin, ttowajn street, Lhm received word that his eldest Son/iP/rivato Arthur Hoskin, 13th Essex Kegimeat, who was wounded and posted a* missing after an engagement in Wane* on April 28, is noiv a prisoner off wot in Germany. The news came fromjfPri" vate Hoskin's wife in London, sh«£jmT* ing just received a welcome letter, fronl her husband. Driver Geoff. Whltcombe, jcouijmf son of Mr. P. S. Whitcombe, New ( Ply , mouth, had a marvellous escape itfhen he was wounded in tfie head and leg in France, Ho had driven membere ot the headquarters stag dp to the line* in a motor car when shells came , thick and fast, and he sought retjsgu, with a number of other soldiers, 'lb. a dug-out. Unfortunately, however, J* shell came right through, and as fat a« Driver Whitcombe could ascertain, all tha others were killed. He %a& sent on to the Walton-on-Thames hospital. Mr. H. Spratt, who baa been a diMCtirf ;of the Hawera Dairy Company fop tha past twenty years, having been chairman' for several years past; ias resigned from the directorate owing to ill-health. It . was unanimously decided at the ,annual ! meeting to present him -with an iHumtn. ated address, setting forth the valaabla services he had rendered the conipjany. The chairman stated that he was 080 of the first who started the factory twt&itytwo years ago, and was the last of th« original shareholders to retire. H|* had always done his best in its interests, and; though retiring, would always be willing to give any assistance ne conH. A solemn and imposing ceremony wa» witnessed at St. John's Church, ©take* ho, recently, when a beautiful f onjt dedicated to the memory of the-late SergeanVMajor Outran Miushall Ywwg, and a new Positive organ in memory of the late Elizabeth to Fleming. A» oirf memorial was to the memory of a, departed soldier, Major Sutherland., waa present with a guard of honor of five returned soldiers.. The ceremony wa« performed* by the Rav;. 0. M. Stentj*'&pu« Tuifcev representing the Bishop of Wef« ,'lington r who was unable to be. pftsenti The other clergy assisting WCTelt On 'Bern A. T: 13. Page, W. F, Stent (33n< hape) 1 , by whom the sermon was P|S&«b-' ed,. 0:. W.. Howard 1 ,l^t^)»3k? l W