PERSONAL.
Private Wm. Sheriff, a brother of Mrs J. Shaw, Bcaconsfield Road, Stratford, .has been awarded the D.C.M. A Tress Association message from Christcliurch states that Mr W. H. Skintier, Commit c ioik.r of Crown Lands for Canterbury, has sent in his resignation, to take effect from the beginning of April. He has had an unbroken service in the Lands Department since 1872. Mr XV Morrison of Maxwelltown, was asked in llawera on Thursday if ho intended t'o a;jain contest the Patea seat at the jo-jem! elect'on. Mr Maxwell replied , >.••, he had definitely decided to be a esi-ididate against all coiners (says the -■ ir). Mr. George Coghill, late of New Plymouth, has been appointed to succeed Mr. K- H. Lawford as manager of the Dann/'virke branch of the Union Bank of Australia, oving to the latter's transfer to t.isbome to take over tile managership there, l!r Coghill was relieving manager at Dannevirke some time ago during six months Vr lawford wasrelieving at Timaru.
Mr ('. L. Kasper. B&hotu, has received ft'iviee that hi« son, Sergt. y. L. Kasoer, has been awarded the Military Medal for gallantry on the field. Sergt 'Caspar, who left with the 28th re-in-I'oiee ucnts, was wound, d slightly, afterwards returning to the front. His only brother, Private A Kasper, also left with the 18th reinforcements, and, after swing servire. \va« invalided home Ho later wont info eamn, but pri-r !/ .sailing for the front again was invalided.
Tli# late Sergeant Fred. Cormack, oL" Waverley, writiiijf to his parents from London on Oet.'.>'u-v nth last, stated that iie was enjoying a fourteen days' leave ami intended goin;,' to Edinburgh for a f>'w dnys ((••ays! on e.-celun-jel. He had visited St. i'a-il'x, Westminster Abbey, iiie Tower 01 l.omlon, and other places, of irterest tliat he had heard of. Tni Symes, he said, wr.s then working at the Reccrds Ofiice. and hoped to see hiia. He had. also met his nephew, Kifleman Bert Oormack. who had returned to I'runce the next iky, and hud been killed i'l ::cl ; ou shortly after Regarding the incident in whijh he -.von the D-C.M.. Si'rgi-aiit. Cot-mack said it was in an attack made by ili:» Xew Zcalanders, lb' dcscril)e« the affair as follows: —"Last:. Tuesday," he says. "we started o.T at; balf-p:;-"! four in ;],morning and by nine o'elo. i; had TOO prisoners, and kiibd rihoe! '.vs Onr attack was very successful, although out casualties I were heavy. but not many killed. I only got a smack on the finger, and was able to carry 011. Most of our casual--lies were from our 0..-n barrage; tin■ boys r,en 100 ecjr.T. and went forward a bit too quickly and aot uuton?'t 0 1 own shells. 1 had Ihe luck to if-: tbroti'ili all right, and as a result of inwork i;i ;hat. ..timt T was made ft sergeant, ami my OC. recommended »-• for the ti.C.M. So -■•. 1; can understand how proud I v,n of myself." The sa<? ' part, of it nil is that Serjeant Cormi'' 1 - was killed in action on XovemV- 'l'l'. almost, inratediaMv on h>" ttt'i'ii t ' the, firing line in France »
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