PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 August 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A Sydney oaMegrasn reporia'tbe/dwtßft of Captain John G*ft», ioonmj ' CQJramH, dore of the Union Oorapany's tisffif At Hawera yesterday Mr WjwenttSVSti ■son, SM,, was-ioOTMsrly weto«nsft*ryrtSjaj. local Bar, for whom-Mr P, OTtaniWtiei l as-epokesmsm. ' Mr A. W. Webster,..inanager of ; tb* New Plymouth branob. of the Bank'; of New South Wales, is twnigpji&ifly W lieving tho Wanganui manager (afr G+ W. Harden). Friends of Private Perey Parker,, lai* JBanager of the Kahui Road Quests Factory, will regret to hear that lie was admitted on the 23rd July to the Wellington Military Hospital at Trenthum. Lieutenant-Colonel E. J. O'Neill, D.SO., who served in the South African war, and left there at tho beginning of the present war, hoe again been commended by Sir Dougks Haag. This ifl .the third occasion on which Br(a weH-kirown Dupedta practitioner) haa been mentioned in dispatches. He is an old Otago University student, and a Kugby footballer. His father was a welltknown Now Zealand officer. The Military Cross won by the late t/ieirtenant A, C, Cooper was presented! to his mother, Mm Thomas Agnow, of Weihi, by the Ooyernor-Qeneral at Morrinsville. The award wiae. made for ttota of gallantry in th&field, and-for dewtiott to duty. Lieutenant Cooper led hljj platoon into action in France with great ■courage-and .initiative, and subsequently, although wounded, remained at his posfi and directed an incessant fire upon thoenemy. The sudden'"' deaiMi Of Mr Joseph Temple W;hjtc,. ;hrotfci"T, t of the Her. J. H< unole of Mr H. 'ttie'.'! Weßmgton or* ganist, dec'u^d' y at'AWkknd lasit Thurso -day.: Deceased, who ajrweid in New Zeo-t Wd;;sn the 'eighlfcies, lived in New Ply-t----mouth before jrojnpto -Auctetoid. Hsi was prominent in temperance circles.