PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 March 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL.

. Mr S- Geo. Nathan has definitely decided to .became a candidate for the Wellington City Council at the coining election.

On enquiry last evening, Dr. Fookes (acting superintendent of the hospital) stated that Dr. Walker is making slow but sure progress, though his general condition is such as still to cause some apprehension. Mrs L. I. Asher has been advised by the Minister of Defence that her husband, Corporal L. I. Asher (youngest son of Mr Jo3epli Asher, New Plymouth), has been admitted to Ridgley Hospital, England, with a broken leg. No details are given as to how the injury was sustained.

Mr T. A. Blyth, headmaster of the Ohakune School, in whose welfare old friends in Taranaki are interested, has returned from the war, and is entitled to resume control at Ohakune, but he has decided to go to America to study educational methods there. The Education Board has granted him leave for three months or longer for that purpose.

Mr and Mrs H. Mead (Manaia) received word from their son. Private H, H. Mead, that he was at time of writing in Germany in a town named Laugenfeld, about 14 miles from Cologne, with three others running a post office. A peculiar coincidence (says the Witness! is that one of the others is a hoy from Opunake who was in the training gallery in Wellington with Private Mead some years ago.