PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 May 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

' Mr. M. G. Yates, of the New Plymouth railway staff, has received notice of transfer to Wangamii. Mr. R. 0. Ellis, clerk to the Taranaki County Council, leaves this week on a three-weeks holiday, which will probably be spent in the Manawatu district. Mr. C. E. Bellringer has received advice that Private Leslie Bellringer, who left with the 30th Reinforcements, has been admitted to hospital in England, .suffering with trench feet. Mr. A. K. Laurence, of Tariki, has received word that his second son, Private Bert Laurence, was wounded in the head and finger between April 10 and 21, and has been admitted to Jrockenhurst Hospital. At last night's meeting of the New ■ Plymouth Borough Council, Mr. Edward Jollie was appointed meter reader to the electric light department. There were eleven applicants for the position. Word lias been received in Waverley that Private W. J. McKenna died of wounds in France on March 29. When called up for service lie was first assistant in the Kaupokonui factory, and was only 22 years of age at the time of his death.

Mr. David Cockbnrn, an old settler in the Mokau district, and formerly of Christchurch, died in the New Plymouth Hospital yesterday, at the advanced age of 75. He leaves a son, Mr. Robert Cockburn, and three daughters, Mesdames Bishop (Auckland), Ansell and Mason (Mokau), to mourn their loss. In the latest Australian casualty list published, the name of Corpora! W. A. Marshall, D.C.M. (E. Elliott, New Plymouth, next of kin) appears amongst the killed in action. In the latest, hospital report the following Taranaki names appear: Severe cases, C. E. Pincliam (New Plymouth). Not severe cases, H. S. Hine (Ngaere) and G. L. Noble (Warea).

Private advice lias been received of the death in London on Monday of last week of Mrs. Govett, widow of the late Mr. C. W. Govett. Deceased was a daughter of the late Sir Harry Atkinson. Sincere sympathy will be felt for the members of the deceased lady's family.

Sister A. C'Mcßean, late of Hawera Hospital, who went Home and joined Queen Alexandra's 1.M.N.5.R., was married on February 2nd in Tilstock Church, Salop, England, to Lieut. E. D. Blackwood, Royal Engineers. Word has been received by Mrs N. R. Knight, of Hawera, of the death at the front of her husband, Corporal N. R. Knight, who was killed in action on April 10th. Corporal Knight, who has been awarded the Military Medal, was a son of Sergeant-Major J. S. Knight, lato of Eltham.

Lieutenant J. D. Campbell, who, prior to leaving Auckland as a member of the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces, was chief inspector of Hie Boy Scout Association in New Zealand, has been awarded the Order of Merit by General Sir R. Baden-Powell, head of the boy scout movement, is only given for some special service.

Among those who were burnt out in the Raetihi fire was Mr T. A. Harris, who a number of years ago was a head teacher at the Okaiawa school (says the Okaiawa correspondent of the Hawera Star). It is said that misfortunes never come singly, and, unfortunately, this was the case with Mr Harris, for a few days after the tiro word was received that his eldest son, Lieut. Roy Harris, had been killed in action. I inn sure, tliat all old"residents here will join in extending their sincere sympathy to Mr and Mrs Harris in tlieir great luss.