PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 August 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Captain F. L. Hartnell lias been transferred from Trentham Details to the 40th Reinforcement. /

The Chief Justice, Sir Robert Stout, leaves this morning for Wanganui, where ho will preside at the sittings of the Supremo Court, which open there on Monday. Mr.' H. E. Gilbert, formerly of Waitara, who has been postmaster at Rotorua for five years, relinquished the position on Saturday last. He has received four months' holiday leave. Mr. Stanley Smith, of New Plymouth, is in Tfentham Camp, being attached to the camp police. C. M'Leod (formerly accountant in the News Office) is in the N. 0.0. class, as are W. G. Douglas (late of Sargood's) and W. Trim (late of the News' lino- staff). :

A Dunedin message states that Dr. A. W. T. O'Sullivan, District Health Officer for Otsigo and Southland, has been transferred to Auckland. He will be succeeded in Dunedin by. Dr. I- E. Faris, an Otago University graduate. Both are returned soldiers.

The purchase of a residence for the free use of Archdeacon Calder and iMrs. Calder during the remainder of their life. time, was decided upon at a large gathering of parishioners of All Saints' Church, Ponsonby, the other evening. After 40 years' service in the diocese, 35 of which have (been spent as vicar of the church, Archdeacon Calder' recently announced his decision to resign, owing to ill-health.

Advice was received by Captain W. Atwell, group commander at Rruigiora, that his youngest brother, Captain Albert Edward Atwell, M-C., has been killed in action in France, while fighting with the Australians. Tho late officer had been -two* and, a-half years at the front, filling the position of adjutant to. tho 35th Battalion, A.I.F. He was 35, years of age, and leaves a widow and child in Australia. Officers who have passed, through .the Royal Military College, Dtmtroon, will remember Captain Atwell as their signalling and m'achine-' gun instructor, a position which he held for three years.

The death took place on June 17, a,t. Henley-on-Thames, of Mrs Cavell, mother of Edith Cavell, at the age of 81.' Her death recalls those days of October,' 1915, when the whole civilised world was horrified by the news of the execution of Nurse Cavell by the Germans in Belgium. The King's private secretary wrote to Mrs Cavell, saying': "The hearts* of Their Majesties go out to you In your T)itter sorrow, and they express their horror at the appalling deed which has robbed you of your child." Many written requests were addressed to her for advice as to the form of memorial Hat 1 she considered would he most fn aacond with her daughter's ideas and sympathies. Her general suggestion was in Üb&. : direction of something that might be per-. manently useful, and especially something connected with nursing.