PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 8 January 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr. John Heslop, who fcas been for three weeks with influenza, has almost recovered. Mr. J. E. Wilson, SJ»I., wl\o has I'-en spending a short holiday in New Plymouth. left for Auckland \hj' tho flarawa last night. Mr. F. W. G. McLcod, conductor of the Citizens' Band, is at present enjoying » short holiday at Kotorua. In the latest hospital and progress report, Private 1., llodges, Ngatoro, is reported to be "still seriously ill, but making good progress."

Among the indulgenco passengers 'on the transport bringing return draft No. >204, duo to arrive in New Zealand shortly, is Captain H. E. Blavpey, wall know* iii South TaranaJd

The Rev. Frazer B. Barton, 8.A., who has been on active service in France for IS months, has been appointed to the new Westmere parish, Wanganui.

Major-General (temporary Lieuten-ant-General) Sir A. J. Godley, commander of a British Army Corps in France and of the Xew Zealand Expeditionary Forces, was gazetted on June 3 last Lieuteiiant-Genera! "for distinguished service in connection with military operations in Franco and Flanders."

The Croix do Guerre lias been awarded to Maior W. I>. Nurbey, whose wife rosides in Great North KoaS, Grey Lvnn, for conspicuous gallantry. Major Narbey, who was formerly farming at Eltham, left Xew Zealand with the Main Body of the Expeditionary Force as * lieutenant. He served. on Gallipoli, and later, when tho New Zealand force® were transferred to France, he took part in the battle of Messines in June, 19X7, when ha was wounded. He was gassed in March, 1918, and wounded a second time in August, 1018. He was promoted to the rank of captain after the first battle of the Sotnme, in 1916, and to major after the battle of Messines. For some time he has been acting as color cl of his regiment

Mr- H. D. Skinner, 8.A., D.C.M., has bcuu appointed lecturer on aUinology l>y the Otago University Council, and is now in New Plymouth, is the only boh of Mr. W. H. Skinner, Crovva lands Cominissioer for Canterbury, and was born in New Plymouth 32 years ago and educated at Kelson College. He attended tho law lectures at Victoria College, Wellington, but later abandoned law and graduated B-A. at the Otogo University in 1012. He also won the (ieoiVrev Parker Memorial Frize. At the time that war broke out he waa teaching at the Palraerston North High. School. He joined the N.Z.E.'F. as a ■ private, and left New Zealand with the Fourth Reinforcements. He landed on Gallipoli at the end of May, was wounded, and received the D.C.M. It wa» in the August lighting that he was "knocked out" After taking his discharge in Engkud in 1917, he entered Christ's College, Cambridge, where he was awarded the Charles Darwin prize for an essay on "An Aspect of Maori Art." Hp took a course in anthropology. and submitted for tbe diploma, the awarding of which has not yet been announced a dissertation "n "The Material Culture of the Mnriori." Mr. Skinner kept terms for a Research B.A-, for g which he has to submit another disser- _ tation. He returned to New Zealand recently.

Tho Countess Markiewicz, who has been elected a member of the, British Parliament, is & remarkable woman, and took a p/ominant part in the Dublin rebellion in Easter, 191 G. Sho ed the insurgents in the Royal College of Surgeons. She was sentenced to death by court-martial, the sentenco afterwards was commuted to penal gcrviX tude for life, but in June. 1917, she was released from Aylesbury Prison, and a few days later, when she arrived in Dublin, she was met by a largo crowd, which accompanied her as sho drove through the principal streets- She is a daughter of the late Sir Henry Gore-Booth, Bart., a large landowner of Sligo- After being presented at Court to Queen Victoria in the Jubilee yeax she became an art student iii Paris, and achieved a certain amount of success. Sixteen yean ago sho married Count Casimir Markiewicz, a Polish artist, who at Easter, 1916, was fighting with the Russian Army. In addition to her activities as a Sinn Feiner sho took a leading part in suffragist demonstrations. Sho established the National Boy Scouts in 1910,. and this body gave many young lads to the ranks of the rebels. Sho was prominently associated with James Larkia in his activities, which paralysed the trad# of Dublin in 1913 and led to grave rioti 1 in the city.