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Mr. F. Earl, K.C.. who has been appointed chairman of one of the new Auckland Military Service Boards, was present at yesterday's sitting of the third Wellington Military Service Board. Mr. C, P. Bowles, secretary of tho Wellington College Board of Governors, who has been seriously ill for somo time past, attended yesterday's meeting. The chairman (Hon. J. G. W. Ait-ken), on beualf of the board, congratulated ■Mr. Powles on his recovery. The death occurred at Hawera on Saturday last of Mr. 0. A. Budge, a well-known resident in South Taranaki, who-had at various times held import: ant positions in the community. He was senior member of the firm of Budge and Smith, which was later known by the title of Budge and Tristram. He was for s'ears secretary of the A. and" P< Association, clerk of the Hawera County Council, agent for the Publio Trustee prior to the establishment of tho local branch, and had lately held the position of Deputy Assignee in bankruptcy. His wife and one daugh- . ter survive him, and Mr. A. W. Budge, of Stratford, is his brother. The deceased was fifty-six years of age. . Bishop Sadlier, of Nelson, is at present in AVellington. The Very Rev. Dr. Kennedy, S.M., D.D., Hector of St. Patrick's College, returned from a visit to the south yesterday. -The Bey. E. I. Sola, who has resigned the position of Vicar of St. Alban's, Eastbourne, in order to return to England, will, with Mrs. Sola, be entertained at ona Bay this afternoon by tho local parishoners. Mr. R. K. Lyon, secretary of the Wellington Savage Club, goes into camp in "uarch. I\lr. R. R. Martin, secretary of the Returned Soldiers' Association, who was wounded at Galiipoli, goes into camp again on February 5. The following changes }|jve been announced amongst the Marist Brothers stationed in Wellington:—The Rev. ■Brother .Bmilian, from Newtown to Christchurch; the Rev. Brothers Augustine and Francis, from Ncwtown to Auckland; the Rev. Brother Luke, Thorndon, to Timaru. The Rev. Brother Fidelis, from Christchurch, and the Rev. Brother Sigisforo , , from Napier, will fill the vacancies at Newtown. Mr. Diprose has resigned from the teaching staff of the Wellington Boys' College in order to go into camp. At yesterday's meeting of the Board of Governors, Mr. W. H. Stevens, of Wellington, was appointed to fill the vacancy. Mr. W. L. Dunn, of the 1 Education Department, has been appointed secretary of the Teachers' Superannuation Board. Tho death, in Mesopotamia, of the Rev. R. H. Fulford, reported last week, is a severe blow to the Church of England's Men's Society in Ncw_ Zealand (states a contemporary). _ Mr. Fulford,s consciousness of his duty as chaplain to Empire and soldiers was pronounced, otherwise ho miglit now be alive and well, performing useful and needed work in tho dominion. In the last quarterly issue of the "Men's Magazine," written before Mr. Fulford's end, appears the passago:— "Once again New Zealand has been disappointed about getting its organising secretary, but for a most honourable reason. Tho .Rev. R. H. Fulford, who had been selected, has been acting as chaplain.to the forces, first at homo, then ill Galiipoli, and then in Egypt. At the end of his term He felt he ought not to resign, but to finish his .task, and, with the sanction of the New Zealand Council, he is still serving, we believe, at the present moment in -Mesopotamia." , Blight Sub-Lieutenant Leslie Mackay (son of Mr.' P.' M. Mackay, of Auckland); who was injured in an aeroplane accident in France, is now reported to bo out of danger. One of the coincides of Mr. Massey's visit to, Belfast in November was tho fact that in his call: at the Royal Victoria Hospital in the city ho found among its inmates one of his own constituents, Sergeant William Batty, sbn ■of Mr. J. Batty, of Karaka, Ruiiciinan, a porsonal friend of the Prime Minister. Sergeant Batty had been wounded in the advance on the Somnio a few weeks earlier. A Belfast paper states that besides chatting with Sergeant Batty, Mr. Massey addressed encouraging words to a young private named Fross, whose home-is in Tasmania, and that the patients enthusiastically cheerthe the smiling Prime Minister before he left.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2988, 27 January 1917, Page 9
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