PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 1 June 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

n4r ondon cable «!*•*•• that Captain C. Nelson, of the 15th Hussare, former ly of the New Zealand Forces, has been wounded in France.,

A London cable states that Mr Gillies, the well-known New Zealand golfer, has been appointed chief 6urgeon of a Belgian field hospital.

, Archbishop Redwood, who has been on an extended visit to Europe, is expected to return' to New Zealand towards the end of thejwesent month. He is returning from England via America.

An old pioneer, Mr George Byford, died at the advanced age of 85 at Meanee on Tuesday last. The late Mr Byford came to Australia in 1853 and was a member of the mounted police at »the time of the Ballarat rising. Later he came to New Zealand in 1861 and served in the 40th Foot in the Maori War. He was kell-known in the Otago district, as also in Hawke's Bay.

Corporal Gerald Richard Clarkson, reported missing in the Dardanelles since May 7th (writes our Normanby correspondent) is the oldest son of the late Mr R. P. Clarkson, for many years headmaster of the Normanby school. He will, be remembered by many residents as a particularly bright boy, and all will hope that he may be still alive and well, and turn up again after the war.

Mr Sidney Burgess, manager of Messrs Burgess, Fraser and Co.'s Hawera branch, who is shortly leaving for the^Trentham camp to .go: into training for the front, was presented at New Plymouth -■on Saturday, by the. principals and combined staffs of New Plymouth and Haweraj with a safety razor, a case of pipes, and a tobacco pouch.

Mr G. W. Russell, M.P. for Avon, was a passenger for New Plymouth by last evening's express train. Mr H. W. Warpup left Hawera this morning for Wellington' to attend the annual meeting of the New Zealand Beekeepers' Association.

Mrs Edward Higg3, who rendered valuable assistance in the training of the children for the dancing at the recent hard-up rag social in aid of the Belgan Relief Fund, was tendered a complimentary social on Monday evening, when she was presented with a silver cake stand, a gift from the children.

Bugler G. F. McG. Bissett, whose death on April 27 has been reported, was the younger son of Mr A. Bissett of. Feiiding. When the call came, he was amongst the first to offer, and now having done all and given all he could do, or give, he is, with others like him, worthy to have his name on the roll of honor. As a Boy Scout, he qualified for many T>adges, and as an otfieer in the Feilding Senior Cadets he set an example well worth following. He- was also a cornet player in the Feilding Band. He was as upright in character and conduct as he was in form and physique. As in all these cases of service and sacrifice, the sincerest sympathy'is extended to the parents and relatives.

Sergt.-Major Robert Leslie Garden,, son of Mr Robert Garden, of Normanby, has been gazetted lieutenant in tiie 11th Territorial! Regiment. After leaviag- Normanby *some months agp r he w;\* stationed at New Plymouth as-inst-uctor, then at Eltham, and then, at Taumarunui, whence he was prorcotfj.i to Trentham as Permanent Staif; Instructor, and his ability and: devotion to duty have been rewarded by his promotion to a lieutenancy.. By thoso who know him, Lieut- Garden is looked upon as a born soldier, and no doubt, like other young officers and reciuits, his chief desire is to be at the front, but exceptionally qualified instructors who train others to become efficient soldiers serve their country aswell as though they were personally in the fighting line.

We understand (says a Wanganut paper) that Master Haydn Beck, who proceeded to London to continue his ■studies after the sacking of Belgium by the Germans, is returning to New Zealand. The trustees of the Haydn Beck' fund deemed it desirable, in consequonce of the war, to recall the young; musician to Wanganui, with the intention of sending him back to Belgium to h!> old master in Brussels after the war Haydn is believed to have left England by the Remuera on May 1

A veteran cf the Maori war, in the person of Sergeant Patrick Hoy, died! at the Veterans' Home, Auckland, on Wednesday last. The deceased, who had reached the age of 8S years, came to the colony as lorig ago as 1846. He was an old member of the 65th Regiment, and served in numerous enga^Lments during the Maori war He fubseouently took up his residence in the VVhitianga district, and finally retired to end his days in the Veterans'1 Home. He was buried with military honors at Waikaralia cemetery

Sapper Garland Oswald Morgan, who Waai£S le« m action at the UardaWlea on 11th May, was born m Ilawera, and was the son of Veteran Thomas Morgan and Mrs Morgan, of Heafherlea House, Wilson street. Ke was educated at Hawera District High School, passed the Civil feervice examination and entered the local post office, where he becameone of the smartest operators. He was transferred to Wellington, and them acquitted himself well, both in departmental work and in sport. He was a prominent member of the Lyall Bay Surf Bathing Club, and on one occasion was successful in saving life at injury to his own, for he was invalided for two months after the rescue. At the outbreak of war he was among the first to enlist, and he and another local lad "i Keydon Bates, were engaged as signal- j lers on the troopship going to Egypt. I On arrival there these two schoolmate* stood their training well, but iust before leaving for the Dardanelles Sfenaller Bates was sent to the hospital, invalided for pneumonia. Signaller Morgan was a young man of sterling character, a good student, a capable offacer nd a most loyal and dutiful son— a soldier and a man, and richly entitled to the garland of honor.

Under recent legislation all education reserves are now administered by Land Boards instead of by Commissioners. Recently it has been decided to open certain reserves in Hawera for competition on the pernetual right of kase system, and for this tjumose Mr T. G. Sole. New Plymouth, has just .completed the survey and cutting up of eight acres into quarters" fust at 'the back of the District High* School, as building sites, and these sections will ne put into the market at an early date. The sections are bounded by the Mamawapou road and Dive's Avenue.