PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 August 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

General Pershing ha? been awardedtlil? Grand Cnwg of the Legion of Honor.

The Press records the death of Mrs J. Dave v. an old resident of Patea, at the hospital on Friday. '

Word has teen received of the death of Mr Joseph Blowttfield at" Te Puke. Mr Bloomfield was formerly a resident of Matapu, and was one of the directors of the Mangatoki Dairy Company. A London cablegram states that Mr Joseph Cook, tho Australian politician, lias .been appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order off St. Michael and St.. George (G.CJMG.) A Qhristchurch message states that news has been received there that Lieut, fl. S., Richards, New Zealand Fvhodes schokr, 1914 (the first Canterbury man to attain that honor), has been killed in action. He woili'' ffijpnie in 1916 and passed his examinations at Oxford, after which he joined' the Ess* Regiment. He was wounded in the B&t----tle of the Sosnmc, and spent thirteen «r»riths jn hospital. On recovering he put in a courso of training at an aerodrome, joined the Flying Oorrps, ■and returned to'the front comparatively recently. In-a recent Home newspaper reference ;-.was made to the late Chief Petty Officer Jack Batcy, of New Plymouth. Da : ceaswl was lost at sea on April 11, and Shortly before that date wrote to his aunt, Mrs Satey, of Carlisle, saying that ttrey were "going into business to-mor-■row, . . . and I am proud to say

•that'the braareh 1 belong to is going to ! play the moSt important -part in it. . .

Tf anything happens to me, let my, dear people know that tlhis was the tannest day rf my life." An officer, writing to 3 Mrs Batey, said he was : aJble to tell** much about the death of her nephew, but he believed has boat, which was alontHait the time, must' liave been hit by a shell from a German battery and" wink probably at once I feel convinced that he would have been •stunned by the explosion, and so have* ibeenunabk to suffer any pain. I express »fcho feelings of tlhe officers under whom>< he served'iby telling you that he was.al. ways most zealous and reliable, s and dsed •in the execution of his duty under oiroumitences wtedb. mudt hta»e called for, .great courage."