PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 November 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. X. K. Ilra.vton. of Taihape, lias b.-cn appointed secretary of the Efniont Cox Company. There were 38 applicants for 1 lie position. Mr. Charteris, of Fitzroy, lias received word that his son Frank, of the -2-li.h Reinforcements, was admitted to the hospital from the trenches in Flanders suffering from acute "bronchitis. Papers by the last mail from England announce the marriage of Lieu ten. ant Claude Harrison, M.C.R.N.. second son of the late JJr. Valentine Harrison, of Ilnwera, to Miss Rose Price, daughter of the late licv. W. 11. Price and Mrs. Price, of Bristol, England. At noon yesterday, Mr. Newton Kind's staff foregathered at the New 'Plymouth office, and, on their behalf, Mr. Fred Watson presented Mr. S. IV. Shaw with a silver afternoon tea'service, to mark the occasion of his silver wedding anniversary.

Corporal W. E. Millington (missing, believed killed), fifth son of the late Mr. Sydney George Millington and of Mrs. Jfillington, Wellington, was born :u Wellington 20 years ago, and was educated at Wellington and in \ew Plymonth. Corporal Millington left New Zealand as a sergeant in tho Rifle Brigade, 2(lth Reinforcement!!. For some time prior to enlisting lie served at Fort Rallancc, Mr. W. fl. Whittan, of Waitnaiisa, has received word through the Dcience Office that his =on. Robert .1., who enlisted in the machine-gun section of the iitii Reinforcements, and was wounded in France on October I.'! and admitted to Rrocklehtirst Hospital. Kngland, is suffering from a severe gunshot, wound in the hip, and a later cable states that lie is now convalescent.

The casualty list published on Wednesday contains the following Taranaki names:—Wounded: Private j. fj. Sangster (0. Sangster, Stratford father?; wounded slightly, remaining with unit: Lance-Corporal G. J. Oliver (11. C. Oliver, Stratford, father). Hospital progress report: Seriously ill. Private F. E. Stimpson, Tnglewood; still seriously ill, LanceCorporal A. E. Raynor, Inglewood; removed from seriously ill list: Privates W. M. Pearee, New Plymouth; F. 11, Pennington, Eltham; not severe eases: Lance-Corporal G. W. Milne, Stratford, A. J. 'Plier, Taranaki.