PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 September 1918, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Lieutenant Harold Thomson has cabledfj| that he is on short leave in JLonden. ;sa| CaWe advice was yegterdayiyi that Private F. Lincoln Francis, of s]it*-*J| roy. was dangerously ill at Thames Hospital. • ''• •< "M Mr. A. Gray, Director of Education for Taranaki, left (by tWa*itiis train yesterday morning for Wellington; <m tp attend a Dominion conference tors of technical education. . iM Private Hughie Riley, who w&««t'4ut]s landing at Gayipoli, but returaeß Ja-'v|l valided, subsequently re-enlisted, classed fit for service, proceeds this month. ■ i-r'M Mr. H. Okey, MiP., who lias at all well for some weeks past, nditM taken to the hospital oil will not .be able to attend to «hr i>tm his Parliamentary duties for arriJUl&iß Ihe Taranaki County Council, at H»M meeting yesterday, passed a resoMipwJi expressing sympathy with Mr." (Sasv/na! : M his illness. ' VX'SB Sergeant Oliver Robertson, son late Mr. John Robertson, of Hawej*, -i&M dangerously ill from the effects wound in the head, . 's;■ Advice has ibeen receive* that J. B. Young, aged 22 yeara.'the yoiqjtfTSi est son of the late Mr. J. S Young tStisM Mrs. Young, of Hawera, has been 'MUto'll in action. ' i'"i*H <■ ■'''Sis It ha 3 now been arranged that tfc'&'.r| funeral of the late Trooper A. Prostpß. 'M Kidd, of Westown, who died at the'wttsfi lington Hospital on Thursday,'will place at Te Henui Cemetery on Thftrk 1 '?! day. ...'-j Mr. A. I. Johns, manager for 'Nefc'i? Plymouth for the Union Insurances*'sl ciety of Canton, Ltd,, and the ffllrfti&f-SJ Traders' Insurance Company, Ltd., taUtf just been appointed acting-'inspectorfw r& the New Zealand Insurance Ltd. Mr. Johns goes shortly to Anck-vlfl land, where he will temporarily s&H' tSft'M position of secretary to the company. ,'%j| In a list of recent award* and tions conferred on New Zealandeifj idffM war services, 2nd Lieutenant C. J. (Mrs. R. Harris, wife, care of Mr.' $*M Scott, Waitara) is amongst those" who-"*■? receive the Military Cross, and RifcWtt/ 1 L. Lyford (Mr"s. E. Lyford, mother,;Deti.'?S ■nigh Road, Midhirst) receives 'the jMllk" % tary Medal. i **# A Wellington telegram states news has been received of the death ironi ?M wounds of the Rev. A. R. Gordon, wE&S a Methodist minister who left New" land as a private with the 7th Reifo if* forcements, and who recently s*'** commission as lieutenant. At the time M ot his enlistment he was second mMritftl&j! in Dundas Street circuit Press Assoc. • " jj| The death is recorded'of LieutauurHß Arnold Thomson, which took place last'*! 1-riday in England, as the result , fl f?J wounds. Lieutenant Thomson was on*: 1 ! of Hawera's best-known lounc men, Ins death will be widely deplored (bmS"?£ the Star). He came of a welMcnoTrti'*4 Duneam family, but for manv years had'J been under the special care of his uncle, Mr. H. Halhwell, in whose office he'' -"* served M s articles, becoming later on partner m the firm, 0 f which Mr. Ha't;. ''& ' *ell is hi-nd. Lieutenant Thomson fffci-tfj)