PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 April 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London cable reports the death of the Right Hon. C. Huwick, M.P. for Wansbeck. Tl>tf Ven. Archdeacon Evans is expected to return to Few 'Plymouth tomorrow. Mi. Arthur Morton, who has been on a visit to Australia extending over three weeks, returned last week. Corporal C. K. Jury, of 2few Plymouth, lias been awarded the Military 'Medal for gallantry on the field. Corporal Jury, who is in the macliine-gim section, is a son of Mr. W. 11. Jury. A Sydney cablegram reports the death of Sergeant C. S. Fern, Member of the Assembly for Cobar. He recently returned from the front suffering from shell shock and tuberculosis. Private A. L. Sturmey, who is well known in Xcw Plymouth, and was -one of the original members of the East End Reserve Committee, has been awarded the D.O.M.

Mr. 0. LadbrooJc, ,of Inglewood, lias received cable advice that Private A. 0. Clark, well known throughout the district as a stock agent, who left with the 26th Reinforcements, has received a gunshot wound in the lefijarm, and is confined to hospital,' In the latest hospital report the following Tamilaki names are given: Removed fj'om seriously ill list: T- Parker (Otakeho). jvot severe cases: S. Barrow (Hawera), 0. P. Lealand (Waitara), ■I. Mawdsley (Uruti), J. Wallis (New Plymouth), T. A. Walsh (Ngaere), C. F. Stokes and W. C. (Lowe (Hawera), and E. Symons. Captain Lance Buchler, who was killed in action in France on April 6, was, before enlisting, teaching in the Stratford High School, and went away as Second Lieutenant in January, 1915. His brother, Walter, was killed in the Somnie battle (September, 1910), and his eldest brother is headmaster of the West End School, Palmerston North. Lieutenant-Colonel D. S. Wvlie, who lias been commanding -No. 1 New Zealand General Hospital since its arrival in England, will shortly return to New Zealand. to control the establshment of a new orthopoaedic hospital at Auckland. He and Colonel 'Mills, lately commanding No. 2 New Zealand General Hospital, have been studying military ortliopoedics in Great Britain. Mr. W. X- Ewing has received cable advice that his sou, Lieutenant K. S. Ewing, has been seriously wounded, and has been admitted to the General Hospital at Rouen. Lieutenant Ewing left with the loth Reinforcements, and this is the second occasion on which he has* been wounded, lie having returned to the front on March 1.

Miss Edith Sutherland has 'been appointed general secretary to the Nfew Zealand Food Reform League, Auckland, under the supervision of a number of medical and scientific men throughout the colony. The league will also represent the Imperial Medical Association for the Prevention of Cancer.

Mr. R. J. Speck, of Hawera, who received advice on Wednesday of the death in. action of his son, Rifleman It. J. Speck, has since been advised that another son, Private P. 15. Speck (a twin brother of Rifleman Speck} has been wounded. Prior to enlistment, Private Speck was engaged at the Hawera and Inglewood . power-houses, and enlisted immediately on attaining the age of 20. Lieutenant Purvis Ford Armstrong, who has been reported killed in action, had a brilliant scholastic career at the Grevtown School and the Wellington and Victoria University Colleges. He graduated B.A-, and also took the Sir Oeorge Grey scholarship. He was appointed a master to the Wanganui College, and was there at the time of hi enlistment. He was in camp with the 15th Reinforcements, and left as a secpad lieutenant with the 19ti*