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Taranaki Daily News, 6 May 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Second-Lieutenant A. Smith, of .vjtt Plymouth, is returning to New Zealand by a boat that is arriving shortly. Mr. and Mrs. W. \R. Butler, old settlers of the. Manaia district, have disposed of their property there, and intend taking up their residence in New Plymouth.

A London cable states that Mr. Cecil Hunte:: Rodwell, C.M.G. Imperial Secretary to the High Commissioner of Sooth. Africa, has been appointed Gocernor of Fiji.

[ Among the soldiers arriving in New Zealand shortly appears the name of Sergeant S. C. Foote, of New l'lymoutft, who has gained the distinction of being awarded the D.C.M. and also the bar to the .D.C.M.

A Whakatane message states that Mr. Henry IT. Metcalfe, civil engineer, of Auckland, engineer to the Whakatane Harbor Board, dropped dead on the beach while inspecting the harbor works on Friday afternoon.

In the latest hospital report published the following Taranaki names appear:— Seriously ill, H. F. Wren (Hawera). Removed from seriously ill list, Sergeant J. H. Bower (Okau). Severe cases, A. J. Huggetts (New Plymouth). - Qablc- advice has been received that Private H. Glentworth, son of Mr. H. Glentworth, Urenui, i s returning to New Zealand in the next hospital ship, due to arrive in Wellington shortly. Another son. Sergeant-Major "Jim" Glenworth, has been lighting in France for nearly three years, and twice wounded. When 'last heard of he was in England, and about to receive a commission.

A returning draft (No. 159) of soldiers, which is due to arrive in New Zealand during this month, includes the following Taranaki men:—nSecond-Lieu-tenant A. Smith. Ratapiko ; Privates 11. Bennett, P. G. Blanchett, J. S. Daniell, Sergeant S. C. Foote, D.C.M. and bar to D.CM., Privates A. Hay, P. K. Kingdon, Lance-Corporal W. M. Pearce, Private, C. A. Sisley, Sergeant J. Spence, and Private A. N. Stoning, New Plymouth, 0. B. Berntsen and A. F. Jones (Waitara), Lance-Corporal D. H. Briggs (Kapongal, Privates H. Collingwood (Stratford), Hi. W. Glentworth (Urenui), J. Morrice (Manaia), M. W. Paterson (Tarata), Lance-Corporal A. <E. Raynor (Inglewood), Sergeant F. R, Silby (Awatuna), Privates A. G. Mitchell (Te Kiri), W. Thompson (Normanby;, D. Wells (Mangorei), E. A. Quinn.

Newsi has been received in Christchurch of the death in England from meniugitis of Lieutenant-Colonel C. F. D. Cook, D.5.0., Wellington Infantry Regiment. Lieutenant-Colonel Ooo'k was the cldsr son of the late Professor Cook. Ho wa'. educated at Christ's College and Canterbury College, and was practising his profession's a solicitor in the North Island when he left for the front as a captain in the Wellington Regiment. Ho was a prominent athlete.—Press Association.

The posthumous award of the Gold Albert Medal has been made to Commander Goodhart. When a submarine accident sank in 38ft of water the only prospect of saving the "remaining crew; was for someone to escape, in order to; concert measures with the rescuers, who) had arrived on the surface. Commanded Goodhart volunteered to make the attempt- Carrying a tin cylinder with instructions for the rescuers', Commander Goodhart and the. submarine's com\ mander entered the conning tower,, which was flooded to their waists. A high pressure of air was then turned on, and the conning tower lid was opened. Commander Goodhart took a deep breath, and made his escape, hut, unfortunately, he was blown against the superstructure and killed. The submarine 3 commander, who had intended to return to the submarine after Commander Goodhart's escape, was involuntarily forced to the surface by tfoa air pressure, aud was thus enabled to effect t'ne rescue of the submarine crew,