PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The friends of Sergeant wit is suffering from influenza, will regret to learn that his condition id causing some anxiety. Major Cos, of the Hawera group office, was in town yesterday on departmental business. He returned as far as by the afternoon train. An Auckland message states that Mrs. Browning, wife of Lieut. E. J. Browning, a voluntary worker during tha epidemic, died' at the quarantine station. Sister Bailsford is still dangerously .ill, There are 14 cases in hospital on the island, and one is dangerous.' Mr. R. Masters (Stratford), who was believed to be recovering from an attack of influenza, has suffered a relapse, and was unable to attend a special meeting of the Taranaki Education Board which was held yesterday. Mr. R. A. S. Browne has resigned lis position as director of agricultural instruction under the Taranaki Education Board. The resignation was accepted at a special masting, of the board yesterday. At the New . Plymouth Hospital yesterday morning the death of Mr. Thomas Lakeman occurred as the result of influenza. Residents in the Rahotu district will regret to learn this, the lato Mr. Lakeman having been engaged thero as a farmer The death is reported of LieuenantColonel Thomas Orr Guthrie, N.Z M.C., on Wednesday, after an illness of three months. Colonel Guthrie came to Now Zealand about forty years ago and for some time practised at Lyttelton. When appointed to. the Medical Board he was living retired at Feilding.

Many, friends in Hawera,and on the Plains, will regret to learn of ,tlie death at Hawera of Mrs. M. Franklin, formerly of Manaia (says The Star). Mrs. Franklin was one of the earliest residents lof Manaia, where she had lived since 1882, her husband having been tife first con- ! stable there. Mrs. Franklin went through many exciting and strenuous times'during the Maori troubles on the Plains. Many are the stories she Could tell of her experiences with the natives. She was much respected by all the Manaia people, amongst whom she lived for over 30 years, and much sympathy will be felt with her husband and family in tljeir great loss. She was a sifter of Mr. J. J. Meldon, of Manaia.V She leaves a family, of five—threo sons {one •of whom was wounded and lost a, leg a t the battle of the Somme), and two daughters, one being Mrs. D. Ryan, whose husband died a short time ago;

The young Hawera soldier, Sergeant John Gilroy Grant, V.C., is the Florid son of the late Mr G.- Grant; ana Mrs Grant, of Hawera, where he Vas bom and spent his life until leavin? vrith the Seventh Reinforcement for active service. The distinguished honor conferred upon him will be heartily acknowledged by, Hawera in ''particular and Taranaki in general on his return home, which it is expected will not;be in'the distant future- Sergeant Grant it 29 years of age, and was prominent in athletic circles in Taranaki' being a well-known footballer and swivnmar of some repute, having, represented Taranaki in champion events. He also Itolds the position of lieutenant in the Hawera Fire Brigade. He -was one of three brothers who have done their bit. The other tyro have returned to New Zealand—James, the youngest, having teen wounded, and William, a Main Body man, having returned a month ago under the Government arrangement to give the veterans a spell, it will bo noted, then; that the newly-made V.C comes of a good fisftting family, and t.b« congratulations of the eommunltv wilt bn exten'ded to his mother Btifl fftmilv, of whom Mrs W. JtuaselK, b a sister "