PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 May 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. S. E. M'Oarthy, S.M., has been appointed chairman of the Licensing Committee for the districts of Napier, Hawke's Bay, and Waipawa, vice Mr. W. Kerr, S.M. The following Taranaki names appear in the not severe cases in the latest hospital report:—(Lance-Corporal C. A. Bell (Hawera), H. V. Ohatterton (Korito), and Sergeant R. W. Sltill (Vogeltown), Mr. T- Young, of Messrs Young and Logie, has received word tlhat his brother, Private J. Young (13th Reinforcements) has been wounded in the left hand. This is the second time Private Young has been wounded. Miss J. M. Smith, of the New Plymouth Girls' High School teaching staff, is at present in hospital a.t Auckland, where she is to undergo a slight operation. At Opunake, on Wednesday evening, Private L. Rayner, who is home on final leave, was publicly presented by Mr. Trotter, chairman of the Town Board, with a wristlet watch and a hold-all. Mr. Trotter, remarked that this was the seventh brother to serve his King and country and the young soldier was given an ovation. Mr. C. L, Rasper, of Rahotu, has received word that his son, Corporal'lf. L. Rasper, who left with the 18th Reinforcements, was wounded on May 10. This is the first injury that Corporal Kasper has susitained, though he has been fighting since Messines. His only brother, Private A- Kasper, who also left with the ISth ReinForcemenfs, and recently returned as permanently unfit, is again in camp. Mr. James Falvey, the fifth son of his' family, whose death from wounds is just reported, was for some years attached to the local linesmen's staff and was well known in Taranaki. Leaving with the fith Reinforcements, he saw wide and hard service. Ho was gassed, and, after recovery and return to the front, was severely wounded i n the legs, his injuries causing death. His home was in Napier, where he had been a pupil ol the Maris-t School,

Lieutenant Thomas J. Wood, R.X.R,, arrived by the mail train' last Friday mght. His health greatly benefited by the voyage, which had been quick and pleasant. Lieutenant Wood, happening to be in London when war was declared immediately offered his services td the Admiralty, and was appointed second officer on one of the first troopships carrying "French's contemptible little Army" across the Channel. He served the Admiralty in various capacities till near the end of lfl'l", when an injury to his arm, received while assisting the crew of a sinking ship, put a period to hig usefulness in the Navy.

The Rev. J. I&wson Robinson, 8.A., of Columbia Presbyterian Church, Oam. aru, and formerly assistant at First Church, Dunedin, who \«s drawn amongst the Class B men of the Second Division has been passed fit. I n response to his earnest request, the Assembly Committee has withdrawn the appeal it intended making on his behalf, and Mr. Ilfcbmson expects to go into camp with a. draft towards the end of September.' Mr. Robinson is a son of Mr. R. 0. Robinson, draper, of Straitford. A curious sidelight on Germany's detailed preparations for the world-war and on the widespread knowledge among the German people of the date, Der Tag," determined upon for the commencement of hostilities, is afforded by the evidenoe given (before the Austrahan Interstate Commission on British and Australian trade in the South Pacific) by Mr G. W. IP!ater»on in connection with the meat supply of the German settlement of Rabaul. Mr Paterson, who is the manager of the National Meat Preserving Company, Ltd., of Sydney, stated:—"With regard to the German trade, we held the contract for supplying meat for three years before the war, that was for German New Guinea particularly. All the meat that was commandeered at the wireless station there was supplied by our firm, It i* peculiar that those meats were ordered five months More their usual time, of course, prior to the war, and consisted of & full year's supply. The practice was to ship the meat from here in October and November, but in the year 1914, when war broke out, they were ordered to be shipped in May and June. It wft» particularly impressed on us by the Qer* man Consul at that time that we must* catch a particular boat, because if we missed it the meat would be too late. After events, of course, showed why this was so." The probability that, after the war, America would be a competitor with England for New Zealand butter was mentioned at a meeting of dairymen at Levin last week. The speaker eaid there was no question that when peace came again America would be a purchaser, and those factories which catered for American taste would be Able to command a high price. He complained that while butter equal to any that ever came out of Denmark was sent Home in the pre-war days, it was never given a value equal to that of the Danish product. New Zealand had all the natural advantages—vifgin soil, and purest grasses and the finest climate—and when these were combined with the highest scientific processes of manufacture, the result could only be a butter that was equal to, if it did not excel, the product of any other .ocustry, ■