PERSONAL.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3340, 8 September 1917, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr J. W. Poynton. S.M., Chairman of the Third Military Board, was a visitor to Feilding yesterday. The Egmont A. and P. Association has appointed Mr A. Perkins, accountant at Hawera, as its secretary. Mr Ernest Aitken, editor of the Grey River Argus, and formerly of Wellingon, has been appointed to succeed tiie late Mr John Christie as editor of the Hawera Star. Mr O. C. Kettle, S.M., who has been in a private hospital for some weeks, is reported to be improving in health. Some weeks will, however, elapse before he can resume his official duties. —Auckland Star. Corporal J. G. Jarrett, Engineer for the Kiwitea County Council, on leave for military service, is at present in Kimbolton on his first holiday from camp. He is attached to a machine-gun section. A sudden death occurred at New Plymouth on Wednesday,, that of Mrs Alley, a half-caste' Hindu woman, aged 44 years, who kept a fruiterer's shop. Her husband, also a Hindu, found her dead in bed. The woman was better known some years ago as " Wild Rose," one of a company of rough-riders and shorp-shooters who toiirned the Dominion. New Zealand's latest recipient of the Victoria Cross. Corporal Leslie Wilton Andrew (whose fine deed is recorded on page 4) is 22 years of age, and the son"of Mr W. J. Andrew (headmaster of the Wanganui East School and for years headmaster of the Ashhurst School). He is an old boy of the Wanganui Collegiate School, and was employed in the lawoffice of Mr C. E. Maokay at the time of his enlistment in September 1914. Corpl. Andrew was a very keen cadet and territorial. Further changes in the staffing or the local Magistrate's Court has taken place. Mr W. J. Reeve, who came here from Stratford in March last, lias been transferred to Rotorua as Clerk of Court, and left for his new sphere of duties by the express yesterday. Mr Tom Nicholas again resumes charge of Feilding. probably for the duration of the war. Mr Nicholas has been associated with the public service of the Dominion at intervals for nearly 40 years, he having joined the Post and Telegraph Department at Feilding as far back as the latter part of 1877 when tho post office was situated on the site now occupied by the Technical School Mr I. J. Salmon has been appointed deputy bailiff.