PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 March 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Inspector Hendry, of Wanganui, waa present at the Opuualuj rates yesterday. Mrs Sarah Beck, the first police matron appointed in Sew Zealand, died on Sunday. The Hon. J. A- Hsuian, Minister of! Education, has notified that lie will ba' finable tu attend the formal opening oC the Boys' High School. ' Tlh name of P. F. Atkinson, of Lep-I'l-rton, was erroneously omitted from the list of boys from the New Plymouth ;liiyh School who matriculated at the recant, university examinations,. '.; Mr G. Bertram!, of Urenui, has had advice that of his three sons who were at the war one arrived in Wellington o.i Saturday, another is on the water, and the third one, Lieut- Bertrand, is regimental education officer at Sling Camp. At time of writing all the boys wme sound and well.

Rifleman 1,. V. Hamtrlor.. of Paten, had In- right leg amputated above the knee as the result of woui.ds received iu the British offensive on ihe Western front last year. Rifleman llamerton's name has at "length been removed from the dangerously ill list, and he is making good progress towards recovery.

Mr. F A. Mac Donald, nf Inglewnnd, has just received word tli.it his son, Private A. B. McDonald, lias had to undergo an operation at the Xew Zealand General Hospital pt Walton-nn-Thames. His many friends in New Plymouth and surrounding district*, whore his services as secretary, etc, to the Mail Choir and as a singer were always so freely given, will be giad to hear that from last news received he was progressing favorably. An extraordinary fine fighting record is possessed by Brigadier-General IT, V.. Elliott, C.M.G., D.5.0., C.8.. of Ballarut. He left Australia with the first contingent in 1914, and has been on service practically continuously ever since. He was wounded at the landing at Gallipoli, and when the armistice was signed lie was just recovering from another wound. The war and his own distinguished service hftve brought him numerous decorations, inclnding two foreign orders, tho last being the French Croix de Guerre, with the golden star. Brigadier-General Elliott is a son of the late Mr. Thomas Klliott, of Ballarat, and as a boy attended the tytllarat College. Referring with regret to the death of Mr. T. Higgie at Hawera on Thursday, the Wanganui Chronicle says that by his death the Wanganui district loses another of its valued pioneers. He was born in 1841, on board the Bhip Olympus, on her voyage to New Zealand. Dr. Featherston being the ship's doctor. The Higgie family, after landing in Wellington, remained in the district until 1849, and then moved to Wanganui, where they have resided ever since. During the second Maori war, Mr. Thomas Higgie saw a good deal of active service, being guide and interpreter to Captain Logan'. For his services in this direction he was appointed lieutenant of the Alexandra Cavalry, of which corps he was previously an active member. Mr. Higgie, who followed farming pursuits, was the founder of the Fordell Progressive Association, which in its day did excellent work, and was also one of the original founders of the Wanganui Fanners' Union/ He took a keen interest in local affairs and was an active member of various local bodies.