PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 July 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. George Lister leaves iNew Plymouth for camp on Wednesday next, July 17. Mr- Lister is a class 02 man, and_ volunteered for service at the end of May. ' ■" . ~yi^ Sister Elsie MeAllum, who for Several months hae been acting matoon «t ike Military Hospital, FeaQjenrton, hat joined the staff of the hospital shtg Maheno in the capacity «J natron. Mr,, F. K. Hunt, a well-known Christchurch solicitor, has been appointed e, magistrate, and will probably 1m stow tioned at Auckland. Mr. W. W. Smith, of New Etemouthj received advice on Tuesday evening that his son, Lieutenant T. Smith, who had been back in the trenches only three days after spending four months in tba Brockenhurst Hospital, had been slightly wounded again,. The sudden death is announced of Mr. Herbert N. Brewer, of Waftflttt*. The deceased, who was the youngest son of the late Mr. William .Brewer, an early settler in the Wanganui district, wm only taken ill on Sunday, find pissed away on Tuesday morning. He is survived by his wife and little daughter. Mr. Walter J. Penn, of New Prymuoth, has, states the Wellington Post's London correspondent, been elected a Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute, and is appointed hon. corresponding Secretary for New Plymouth, in place of the Hon. Oliver Samuel. Mr. J. L. Perry and Mr. W. H. Perry, also of New Plymouth, have been elected Fellows of the Institute. .Sergeant Alan Matthews, of Fitaroy, who went away with the Bth Reinforcements, and has thus seen a considerable amount of service, has been seat to .England for a cqmmisson, and will be training for four months at either Oxford or Cambridge. His brothsT Mr, Keith, Matthews/ jis training with the engineers in England, and will be going to France shortly. The Admiralty Is still going on with the work of testing his invention. : tj , ._ . -