PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 November 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL.

'* mm Lieut-Colonel McDonald, of the New Zealand Permanent Staff, is visiting New Plymouth. Sir James Allon and party are staving at the White Hart. The Minister 'is at present making a round of visits to all hospitals and sanatoria in the North Island, with a view of ascertaining at first hund the condition of the returned (lien and their requirements. The death occurred at Napier on Friday of Mr. .1. H. Sheath, chairman of , the Hawke's Bay Education Board, formerly postmaster at Napier, Westport and HokiUka. He was a wellknown bowler, and took a keen interest in public affairs. He was fit) years of age. The D.S.O. has been awarded to Major Kenneth MucCormick, N.Z.M.K., onlv son of Mr. C. E. MacCormifck, Judge of the Native Land Court. He was born in Auckland, and educated at the Parnell and Ellerslie Public School and (he Auckland Grammar School. When war broke out he was in his fifth, year at the Otago University as a medical student, and after passing the special medical examination for students offering their services to the Government, he enlisted as a 'Jieutenant attached to the Auckland Mounted Rifles, He served through the Gallipoli campaign, being mentioned in dispatches by Sir lan Hamilton, and was promoted to captain. He has seen considerable service on the Western front, where he attained his majority. Major MacC'ormick is twenty-six years of age. The family of Mrs. M. Kindberg, of Vogeltown, have a fine record. Six sons have seen service on Gallipoli or on the Western front. (Private Gus Kindberg (4th Reinforcements), who was wounded in the right, thigh at Gallipoli, and in the right hip at the Somme, returned to New Plymouth on September 2(1. Private Andrew Kindberg (13th Reinforcements) was wounded in the foot at Messines. Private Robert Kindberg (11th Reinforcements) returned some time ago, having at the Somme received gunshot wounds in the chest, penetrating the lungs. Another boy, Edward (20th Reinforcements) has been invalided back, o - tag to ill health, and the sixth, Sam (20th Reinforcements), is at present in France. Mr. Enoch Kindberg. a member of the staff of the municipal electrical power house, was drawn in the ballot, and has been notified that he is ti proceed to camp on January 0. The line record of the family was laid before the Minister of Defence at the Soldiers' Cub, last night, and he expressed the opinion that Mrs. Kindberg's family were deserving of congratulations for the part they had 'played in the war.