PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 January 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Vis nii'levs!opd that Captain 7?. .T. £. h'eddon will proceed to the front this year. At present lie is enjoying a respite on the West Coast. The following Taranaki men arc re l ported as not severe cases in yesterday's hospital and progress report: Private H. (i. Farmer, Kltham; Lance-Corporal B Wcllcr, New Plymouth; Private D. Mapp. Following is the roll of the fourth CI diuft proceeding to camp from New Plymouth on January 10: R. Blake, T. Corkill, E. It. P. Hill, F. J. Johnson, N. 8. James, I'. J. Julian, L. W. F. Lovell, K. MeDoimld, F. J. H. I'aterson and P. G. R Wright;. On one day last week, representatives of four generations in one family were to be seen walking together in the streets of Otaki. They were: Mrs. Pepper, son., Mrs. G. Bell, Mrs. B. Ferguson, and her daughter. < Anj|iS'g the*-latest recipients of the Military Cross' is Captain Leslie Taylor, nephew of Mrs. Fougere, of Xgaere. Captain Taylor is a Napier boy, and prior to enlisting followed the trade, of & plumbei in that district. He joined up about two years ago, and left with the Maori Contingent, having spent the intervening time in Eugland and France. At yesterday's meeting of the Tarttnaki Education Board, the following resignations were accepted: Misses F. L.' Woodrufi'e (Moknu), Mary 0, Terry (assistant,' Stratford), Margaret K. Wilson (assistant, Bltham), Janet T. (pupil teacher, Waitara), Mrs. N. White (sewing mistress, Tututawa), Mrs. F, 0. Appleby (sewing mistress, Tokerima). Another Patca boy lias been honored by the King for gallant service at the front. Sorgeant-Major W. J. Mercer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mercer, having been awarded the Military Med)il. SergeantMajor Mercer was born in Patea, but enlisted with the 7th Reinforcements, Lord Liverpool's Own, from Waaganui.—Press. The death of Mr. Thomas Roberts, a highly respected resident of Henderson, removes a well-known identity,' of that district. He was a native of Eorrington, Shropshire, and came to the Dominion nearly half a century ago. Last April lie celebrated his golden wedding. Mr. Roberts, who was 85 pears of age, leaves his wife, Ave sons and three daughters. Major John Connor, N.Z.M.C., who has been awarded the Military Cross, left New Zealand with the Main Body as a lieutenant in the Field Ambulance, after he had passed his final medical examination. He was educated at the Otago Boys' High School and the Dunedin University. He was on Gallipoli within two. weeks of the landing and continued on active service until after Messines. He is now on the Medical Staff at Walton* on-Thames.

Mr. If. Newton, who has just been appointed to the office of Conciliation Commissioner, entered the service of the Labor Department about thirteen yeara ago. He had iormerly been a member of the Canterbury Conciliation Board, under the old Arbitration Act. He served as an inspector at llastcrton, Christoliureh, Dtmedin, and Auckland, being officer in charge at Dunedin and Auckland. During the last two years he has been in the head office as Deputy-Chief Inspector,) Deputy-Superintendent of Workers' Dwellings, and Deputy-Regis-trar of Industrial Unions. Word has been received that Captain •Tames William Hugih Bannerman, proprietor of the Bluff Free Press, has died from wounds reecived. He was the eldest son of Mr. W. Bannerman, of the Bank of New Zealand, Dunedin, and was born at Oplur, in May 1887. After passing from the primary school at Invercar(?ill he proceeded to the Otago High ! School. Here he took a keen interest in the cadets. Later lie touted himself (with territorial matters, and .went away as lieutenant with the 29th Reinforcements. He leaves a widow and 1 two young children. Captain Bannerman was a well-known cricketer, [ Captain Leonard Serpoll, M.C., report' ed killed in action on December 16, was [the son of the Bev. S. J. Serpell, of Thames, and formerly of New Plymouth. Captain Serpell received his secondary education at the Tinutru Boys' High School, where, in addition to earning an enviable reputation ra the scholastic life of the school, he built up a very line athletic record. From Timaru he went to the Otago University, and qualified as Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery in 1913. After, leaving the 'Varsity he was for some time liouso surgeon at the Wellington. 'Hospital, and then entered into private practice at Taihape, from which town he enlisted os'-a member of the New fifealaod Medical Corps. - At a privato hospital in Wellington there passed away on Tuesday, last Mr. T. Klliot Wilson, of Taihape, who, during his active life, was the founder of quite a number of newspapers, amtingst which was the Stratford Post. He '(rent to Taihape in its early days and started' the Taihape Post, only to encounter Opposition from another newspaper planter of note, Joseph Ivcss, and a lively pompetition ensued until Mr. Wilson sold out to a company, which also subsequently bought out the opposition,/and the Taihape Times was the result. An 6fcteptionally keen man of. business, Mr, Wilson accumulated considerable property in Taihape. During the sixty odd years of his life he was a. great worker and enjoyed marvellous health, but latterly hud to go to Wellington for medical attention, which proved unavailing. Ha leaves a widow and one daughter.

References are jnade in the current number of the Taranaki Church Magazine to the late J. George List. TkefT vttiar (the Rev. F. G. Harvie) says: "Pri- I vate J. G. List was our Sunday-school superintendent, besides being an active Worker amongst the Boy Scouts and C.IS.M.S. If our new Sunday school is to be a memorial to our departed heroes, it will be an added significance that one of those commemorated was superintendent of the school immediately prior to answering lub country's call." The Vicar of Henui jtates: "Our parish has lost ft jeal friend and a most willing helper in the person of John George List, who has laid down his life at tho front. Mr. List was the first person to offer his services : as lay reader when To Henui was constituted a.separate parochial district, and ho held the iirat bishop's license to act in that capacity issued for the parochial district of Te Henui and liell .Block. *VVe have a grateful memory of his many, acts of thoughtfulness, and of his anxious desire to do all he could at all times to strengthen and extend the work of God's Church. It is given to few men (very few. indeed, of hift youth) to have eo strong an influence as was exercised* all unconsciously, by the late John George List. To his relatives, inil particularly his widow and little one, we desire to offer, 011 behalf of the church pebpie of To Henui and Bell Block,- our sineerest sympathy."