PERSONAL PARS

Grey River Argus, 5 September 1917, Page 2

PERSONAL PARS

I Mr 3. Bulmnn, of Reefton has received word from the Defence Office that her stm Jack has been invalided to a hospital in France. Mr. Dickson, Public Works' Department Enginoer, is visiting the. Buller district. He was to leave yesterday .on a brief visit ti Karainea. ' The Base liecords ?Office ; has notified that Second Lieutenant Uatuku, of theNative Corps, died-, at To Waikato Sanatorium Cambridge, on Friday from tubercle of the lungs.— Press Association. ' •' . . ' -..•'. Word has been received in Reef ton (says our special correspondent) that Private Eric Castle has been killed in action. This young soldier, it will be remembered, was for some time on the clerical staff of the Consolidated Office, Blackivatcr. He was" a sdii- of Mr. Henry Castlo/ReefW.: Mr. James Woodcock, an inmate of the Old People's Home, Westport, died — there on Friday night, aged 87 years. His career at se^t included service .on a Chilian naval ship. For many years, deceased was night-watchman for the Westport Harbour Board. ' The Rev. T. G. Brooke, general secretary of Home Missions, r is at present visiting Ross and Hokitika. ' To-day he returns to Greymouth and addresses a meeting in fc>t. Paul's Church in the evening. The funeral of the; late Mrs Bffd, wife of Mr Oscar Bird, will take place this afternoon. The meinhecs of the Druids: y Lo^ge , arc, jby. ..advertisenieut^ asked to "attend the" funeYaTT The brel;hren will meet at the Lodge Room at this afternoon. At Monday's special meeting of the Greymouth Borough Council it was decided unanimously on f the • motion of Councillor Parfitt t seconded by.Councillor Cottlc, that a letter be sent to Mr. and Mrs. .D. Tenuent expressing the council's sympathy ; with them- in the loss of their son,' Sccond-Lieutcn-anb Teunent. -a Mrs. R. Muifdy, of Greymouth, has received, a message from the Base Records Department stating that news is to hand that her son, J. A. Mundy, was. transferred to the convalescent depot at Hornchurch on August 23. Private Mundy was previously reported as having been admitted Jp hospital suffering f rom appendicitis. ■ ' • At the meeting- ", of the Greymouth Harbour Board ■ last -• evening- the [ Chairman before the commencement lot business feelingly referred to the v loss sustained by one of the members of the "Board (Mr. Tennent). by the death/ of his son Second-Lieut.,-Ten-nent who was killed in action. Afr Stee said he regretted that Mr. and Mrs Tennent had lost a worthy son. He moved that the board express its sincere sympathy with Mr. and Mrs Tennent. The motion was "• carried in silence, imetnbers standing. ; •■■•■■■•■

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