PERSONAL PARS

Grey River Argus, 17 May 1917, Page 2

PERSONAL PARS

— m> — Dr. Eleanor Baker, inspecting medical officer of schools, under the Canterbury Education Board, is at present visiting Greymouth, and yesterday inspected children at the District Hi ff h School. ,- --"^S" The welcome, home social, which was to have been tendered to. Private JJavid Larkin at Rotomanu on Saturday evening next, has had to be postI ponpd owing to the soldier having to leave to-day for Hanmer Springs for a few weeks. s Mr Jack Judge, who wrote "It's a " Long .Lone: Way to Tipperary," has lust lost his only son. Private John Judge, of the Royal Wete& Fusiliers Kiiied in action. The death is announced of Mr Wilham Cook who was well-known in Uinstchurch shipping circles and in the timber trade. He was the owner ot the well-known schooners Annie Hill. Lily, and Aratapu. He wa» also the owner of a large sheep farm at Governor's Bay. On the 24th of the present month*(says the "Pelortfs Guardian") Mr W E. Fortescue, of Cullenfiville, Mahaki pawa, will have attained his i o oth birthday. Mr Fortescue. who instill hale and hearty and in possession of his faculties, has been 77 years in New Zealand, having arrived at Port Nicsol son, (then called Britannia) on January 4th 1840. There are very few living, to-day in any part of the world who can say they have lived und»r six reigning sovereigns, but Mr Frotescue can lay claim to this unique record. He waft bom in 1817, and was thus a subject of George IH for three years, and remembers in succession fe. Pa^ng away of George IV.. ■Wilham IV., Victoria, and Edward * V /T^, 111 * b^ his Present romust state of health, Mr. Fortescue is good lor some years, j^et. Lieutenant Alan Wilson, of the Aust. trahan Force, youngest son of Mrs Wilson, of Crow's Nest. Sydney, has just returned home. He has been ]n the firing line for 21 months, arid is at present in a convalescent home suffering from shock. He was struck on the head with shrapnel, breakine the drum of his. ear, and , of course, "outing" him. He had a rather iemarkable experience, having- been found lying in a "dug-out" where he had been for 48 hours. ; underneath five dead, soldiers. When the relief party arrived he was. at first, placfed among the dead, but revived after a short exposure in the open air It save him a fearful shock to realise what a narrow escape he had had from Vmg buried alive. He had also been "gasf«d," but . has -partially recovered from f,he effects of the latter though he still wears a haggard look* which, considering . his experienced* js not to be wondered at.