PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 30 September 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mrs G. W. Tayler has Csays our EI--5w received advice that her brother, Private J. A Lash who was wounded at the Dardanelles' fnS. m^ c *Ne7 Z^ lSind Hospital; «frt n K m ute Lash went with on^ of the Canterbury battalions.

Rev J. Craig, of Fairlie, well known as a dentist at Mans,a, is leaving New Zealand next montn vrith the Seventh Keinforcements in a professional ca-

Mr D. A. Poole, of Auroa, has just received a telegram from the Minister °TW?° + c (^ n J> Allen) as fcHoror Regret to inform you that cable relS/Sn M S ? ay W* 8 that W™ son. \ ! 1 M,ost^ n Poole ' was missing on August 28. Sincerely trust that satLfactory news will be shortly received

Major C R. Mackersy, who was formerly on the local staff of the Farmed Co-operative Society of New ZeaiamL and who has been seriously wounded at the front in the shoulder and left arm, is ieturning to New Zealand where it is expected he will arrive^ about the end of October. His father, Colonel Mackersy, has sent a cablfefo^ssage to this effact. .Three of Colonel Mackersy's sons entered foractive service in the Expeditionary c<V r One wa"s kille<J in action, an* now Major Mackersy has been wounded in the way describedCaptain Frederick Denhame Gibson °* ?t Aib anSj dietl on- Saturday, at"; Chnstehurch, aged 85 years. Decei'serl was born m Yorkshire, .and first visite* JNew Zealand in 18-13 in his father's ship Be)hampore. Afterwards he \va* an officer in the Pacific Company. Hemade several voyages on the Great Western, one of the first steamboatsto cross the Atlantic. His. first command was the s.s. Claude Hamilton,'to -New Zealand, for the IntercolonialRoyal Mail Company, in 1563. hi ISG-i Captain Gibson was appointed port officer for Canterbury and TFestland by the then Provincial Government. Heopened the ports at Timaru, Kaiapoi, and Hokitiki, and was for many years; harbormaster at Lvttelton.