PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. E. Whale has received word that his brother, Private E. E. Whale, formerly of New Plymouth, who left with the Bth Auckland Mounteda, in returning early in January. Private Whale hag been twice wounded in France, and was also in hospital with pleurisy and bronchial pneumonia.

Sir Walter Davidson, the GovernorDesignate of Kew South Wales, and late Governor of Newfoundland, has been heartily farewelled in that colony. He is due to leave London at the end of the present month.

On the application of Dr. Vatlntine, the Third Military Service Board graated Dr. Harold Alexander Cooper, of Sltham, total exemption. Dr. Valintine explained that he was not making the appeal at tie request of Dr. Cooper, or anyone else, but purely on public grounds. There was a scarcity of medical men in the district.

Included in the Wednesday's casualty list appear the names of the following Taraimki men: Died of wounds: J. G. List (New Plymouth). Wounded: Private. 0. Hans (Stratford). Hospital report:—Seriously ill: T. J. Stagenor (Manaja). Severe cases: W. G. Admanson (Hawera), V. W. Bevine (Stratford), A. Bowie, H. H. Glentworth (Eltfcamj, J, A. Hornblow (Ettham), (3. L&nitar (Now Plymouth), P. W. James, A. ». Murray (Eltham), J>. R. Newell (New Plymouth).