PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 41, 17 August 1916, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

llr. Nathaniel Rowe, ii resident of the Thames for 44 years, is dead, aged 64 years. Mr. William Harrison, of Mangapai, where he had resided since 1859, is dead, at the advanced oge of 92 years. Mi. W. Fox, sanitary drainage engineer to the Petpnc Borough Council, left on a holiday trip to Auckland yesterday afternoon. Mr. A. S. Evans, of Pahiatua, has received cabled advice that his brother, Pte. Colman Evans, of the Third Australian Rifle Brigade, is reported missing. Mr. W. Wilson, manager of Messrs. Butterworth Bros.' Inyercargill branch, who has had ten years' experience in the Territorial Artillery, is joining the 20th Reinforcements. The death is announced of Mr. S. H. Macky, headmaster of the Te Papapa School, Auckland, aged 43 years. The deceased was the only son of the lateMi. S. Cochrane Macky. for many years managing the Thames Advertiser. " He has left a widow and child.

Brigadier-General Sir A. W. Robin, General Officer Commanding the New Zealand Defence Forces, wilf leave on an official visit to the Auckland district on Monday next. He will bo absent from Wellington for about a week. He will' bo accompanied by Lieutenant D. I. C. Bryan, Assistant Military Secretary. Mr. Lewis Pulsford, formerly of Wellington South, whose leg was .badly broken through a. kick from a saddlehorse on his farm near Cambridge some months ago, left the Hamilton Hospital this week, and is back again at his home. The injured limb is encased in plaster, and it will be some time yet before he can iise it again. Mr. T. Pi. Tripe, accountant in the Union Company's Wellington office, who has been appointed branch manager at Launceston, expects to leave Wellington in about a fortnight's time. Mr. H. Aplin, late of the Union Company's claims department in Christchurch, has been appointed accountant at Wellington. Mr. L. Kamiya, manager of the Osaka Kishen Kaisha, Japan, who has been on a business visit to the South, returned to Wellington by the Mararoa from Lyttelton this morning. He* was accompanied by Mr. Higashiyama. The two visitors will leave New Zealand shortly for Vancouver, en route !to Japan. Mr. E. E. Harrod. who left Masterton for England some time ago, and is now connected with the British Aviation Squadron, is now in France. In a letter to his mother (Mrs. P. Hilder), he says that at the time of writing he was located about thirty miles behind the firing line, assisting to erect a new air station. Lance-Corporal E. B. Doidge, formerly of the literary staff of the New Zealand Herald, who was wounded in France towards the end of May, is making a good recovery. A letter just received in Auckland indicates that a shrapnel shell burst almost immediately overhead, and ho received no fewer than twenty-three wounds in the back. He was for some weeks in hospital, and was then transferred to a convalescent hospital. LanceCorporal Doidge is a younger brother of Mr. Frederick Doidge, chief reporter of the Auckland Star, now in camp at Tauherenikau. ' v Lieutenant E. P. Coady, late Assistant Director of Defence Stores, .Wellington, has, according to advice received this week, been killed in action. He left New Zealand at the beginning of the war as a member of the Main Body, and subsequently returned and joined the Australian Forces, leaving for the front with an Australian draft some months ago. He was a well-known figure in local football and rowing circles. Deceased, who was a single man, was about thirty-eight years of age. His mother resides in Wellington.