PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 April 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. Amadio, who was here with the Cappelli Concert Company, was reported to be seriously ill with influenza in Sydney when the last mail left Mrs. Francis, Fitzroy, has received advice that her son, Private Lincoln Francis, is returning to New Zealand by the Tainui, arriving about April 2&

Mrs. A. M. Purdie, Waitara, has received advice that her son, Sergeant S. M. Purdie, is returning by .the Kemuera, due on April 29. Sergeant Purdie, who is well known at Mahoenui, is a Main Body man. Mr. L. A. Stringer, town clerk of Lyttelton, has been appointed registrar of Canterbury College, In succession to Mr. G. H. Mason, who has resigned. There were 03 applicants.—Press Association. Mr. E. H. Eeeve, at present of the Matangi Dried Milk Factory, has been appointed manager of the Mangatoki Dairy Company in succession to Mr. Cooper, who has been appointed manager of the New Zealand Kennet Company. Mrs. A. Boon, of Gill Street, New Plymouth, has received word that her brother, Q.M.S. A. H. Street, of the 11th Reinforcements, is returning on the 29th inst with Draft 240 on H.M.T. Remuera. AVord has been received that Dr Simmons, late of Patea, will be leaving for the Dominion in about three days' time. When the last mail left he was with the N.Z. Army of Occupation at Cologne, fit and well.

Mr. F. V. Sturtevant, district lands registrar at New Plymouth, has been promoted to the charge of the Dunedtai office, vice Mr; C. E. Nalder, who has been transferred to Christchurch. Mr. Sturtevant, who has proved hinwelf a very efficient and obliging registrar, is to be congratulated upon this recognition of his ability.

News has been received of the death of Lieutenant Donald Yorke, who, after all his narrow escapes whilst fighting in the air service in France, lost his life as he was flying over the city of Durham through colliding with another machine in a fog. Lieutenant Yorko was a son of the Rev. H. Lefroy Yorke, M.A.8.D., of Liverpool, and nephew of Mr. J. C. Yorke, of the Labor Department, New Plymouth. At the monthly meeting of the Harbor Board yesterday the chairman (Mr. Newton King) moved: "That the sympathy of the board be extended to Mrs. | Connctt and family in the great loss sustained by them in the death of the board's late chairman, Mr. J. B. Connett." Mr. King referred to the sterling service rendered to the board and to other local bodies and business institutions by the late Mr. Connett, and the motion was carried in silence, the members standing. Staff-Sergeant-Major Alexander W. Chapman, late of the 19th Hussars, British Army, has now taken charge of the Stratford military area. Sergeant-Major Chapman was in the retreat from Mons, the 1914 Battle of the Marne, Neuve Chapelle, the Aisne and Hill 60. He was in the field for two years, and received four wounds. For the past fifteen months he has been in charge of the mounteds at Featherston.

At last night's meeting of the ratepayers Mr. J. D. Sole asked Mr. F. B. Wilson to consent to nomination for the Mayoralty. Mr. Wilson, in promising to consider the matter, stated that he had already been approached by members of the Vogeltown and Westown Associations. While not keen on contesting the position, he recognised that it was the duty of someone to stand, and if they could not obtain anyone else by Thursday evening he would consent to nomination.

Sergeant Leonard Leary, M.M-, youngest son of Mrs M. Leary, of Leach street, New Plymouth, who before enlisting was an operator in the local telegraph office, is returning by the Remuera, due about the 29th instant. Leaving New Zealand as an infantryman in the 4th Reinforcements he was slightly wounded at the Suvla Bay landing in August, 1910. In France he was transferred to the Wireless Signalling Division, and won the medal at the Paschendaele Ridge affair in October, 1917.