PERSONAL.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2857, 31 January 1916, Page 3

PERSONAL.

Mr G. L. Petersen, touring manager for Wirth'.s Circus, was in Feilding; on Saturday making arrangements for the appoiiniiiicH of the circus hero oa February 21. On tho last list of those previously reported missing, now believed to be killed, is the name of Private Wilfred Gray, son of Mr J. H. Gray, schoolmaster, Bulls.

It is understood that during lusslay in Wliaiigarei for the Native Land Court, Judge Wilson received from the Government the offer of the posi■iihm of Resident Commissioner at Rarotongu, He has not yet made up his mind.

Miss Mitifjot-io IL Wilson, daughter of Mrs .las. Wilson, of New Plymouth, late of Otaki, distinguished herself at the recent maitrieulntion examinations by securing passes for tnatricu lotion, solicitors' general knowledge, medical prclinuiniiry. and engineering proficiency.

The Hon. Dr. R. MeNab will _ go upon another recruiting campaign shortly in the South Island. He will not be making any recruiting addresses in the North Isla.iid till th<> new recruitinng scheme Is iv being.

Sergt. Sydney M. Okey, believed to l>o dead, was a. son of Mr H. J. Okey, M.P., 25 years of age. He went with tho main body, and oil 1 tlie t'uieful Bth of August, at Suvla, was in charge of No. 9 platoon of the Wellington Regiment. He aw! his men, so fiir as the evidence goes to show, got to the first, trench—the one where "Colonel Ma-lane fell. About miid-day he remarked to a comrade, "Hullo", Sonierville, .still alive? Tlicro are only seventeen of us left." That was the last time he was seen alivo, and Sergt. Okey was probably killed shortly afterwards.