PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 March 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. c. A- McKiimey, of the teaching staff of the Not Plymouth Boys' V\k;i School, ha* heen notified of Ms success iu passin"- (ho teachers' examination for Class C. certificate. .

Private advice has been received that Private Bishop, formerly of New Plymouth, was killed in action at Jericho. Private Bishop joined the'forces about three year* ago and served continuously with the mounted section. Messrs. V. It. C'allajrhan, M.A., resist-ant-master of the Rangiora Ili»h School, anil T. 11. Patterson, of Rive'riiia. New South Wales, .have each nivepted the position of instructor in ußriciiliure under the Auckland Board of Education. Mr. wdl be stationed iu Aiu-k----lanrl, and Mr. Patterson at Rotorua.

An army list jii-t published Elites tlmt Lieut. 11. A. Si vat ford having been declared by a medical board to be unfit for general service within li! months is seeondod as from Nov. 2i). In and her list, thi> mime of Lieut. 11. A. Stratford appears, amongst those promoted to be captains, the appointment being dated November M,

flood news of Captain J. B. [fine, M.l'., arrived by the last mail. Captain Hine, who is nerving with the New Zealand mounted forces attached to (lie army now invading Palestine, \va.; very severely wounded about four months ago, one of his lungs being penetrated by a bullet. Thanks, however, to a sound constitution and a favorable climate, he is in a fair way to make a complete- rccov. cry. At the end of December, eight weeks after being wounded, he was still in hospital convalescing, but his injured lung was then reported to be healing splendidly, and it was e.vpecled that he would suffer no permanent ill-oll'epts. In the course of a cheerlul note to a trie I in Wellington, Captain Dine observer that he does not artitipate being invalided to New Zealand.