PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 January 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. CJH. Burgess (Mayor of New Plymouth), who luis been nlisent on holiday for several weeks, hus returned. Ail o]d colonist, and one-tune wellknown figure in the Waikato, Mr. Robert Lowery Bradley, has died in Auckland, lit the age of SI. In the latest hospital and progress report, amongst those removed from the dangerously ill list, appear the names of Private W. Journeaux (Hawera), and Corporal It. Jones (Taranaki). Ronald Synie. son of Mr. David Ryme, of Eltham, beside? passing his matriculation examination recently, easily heads the list of senior scholarship winners for Taranaki. He is fourteen years of age, and a pupil at the Stratford District High School. Advice has been received by the Y.M.C.A. national headquarters that K. A. Kenncr, of Auckland, one of the New Zealand field secretaries in charge of a Red Triangle luit in Prance, has been slightly wounded in the head while on service for the New Zealand soldiers. Word was received in Nelson on Wednesday that Captain R. IT. Lucas, R.A.M.C., son of Canon Lucas, of Nelson, has been awarded by the King of Italy the medal of the Chevalier de la Carona d'Ttalia, for hospital organisation work on the Italian.front. Mrs. A. H. Herbert has received word that her nephew, Sapper Allan Bushill (Auckland), has been wounded a second time, and awarded the Military Medal. He left with the Oth Reinforcements in the Divisional Signalling Company. Another nephew, Lieutenant Clarence Newsome Sexton, of the Australian Forces, has been wounded (severely) and removed to Walton-on-Thamea Hospital. Cable advice has been received from Walton that Lieutenant-Colonel Claude Weston will most probably return to New Zealand in June. He has a stiff hip joint, and has to remain a further four months in hospital.