PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXXI, 10 January 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Sergeant Claude Harrison, late of the xtawera postal staff, has been given a commission^ as lieutenant in the Ninth Reinforcements (Signallers' Division). '

Mrs Itoyd Garlick is leaving in the* hospital ship Maheno, and will undertake massage work..

Surgeon-Major G. Home, of New Plymouth, who was recently invalided to England from the Dardanelles,, underwent an operation for appendicitis on December 15, and also had a toe amputated. He is making a satisfactory recovery.

Mr and Mrs "W. G. White and Miss White, of Hawera. who have been on a visit to England, arrived in New Zealand by the Sydney steamer today. ;

Mr J. W. Yearbury has just received a cable message from his son George to the effect that he is at present in hospital at Cairo, and that he is doing well. Private Geo. Yearbury left with the Sixth Reinforcements, and no doubt other Hawera lads who left with them are well,, or he would have stated so.

Mr Wm. Donnelly, who for the past three years has been manager of the Hawera United Friendly Societies' Dispensary, left this: morning for the Palmerston North medical camp with the members of the Twelfth Reinforcements. During his residence in Hawera Mr Donnelly has made himself very popular, and will be much missed. He has a;; brother who was wounded while, serving with one of the Australian contingents.

Before his sermon on Sunday evening at St. Mary's, the Rev. C, H. Grant Cowen mentioned that just after service on the previous Sunday Mr Henry Faulkner, who had been Verger for hfte«n years, had passed quietly away.; He said,he thought it fitting to recognise the good service done by Mr Faulkner and to express to Mrs Faulkner and the^'family 'the' heartfelt sympathy of the whole congregation Mr^Faulkaer, had done the workhe had taken,jup -faithfully and"coiiscienfeously. He .was -a good; Christian man, and his life would be an example to many belonging to the church.

.Mr-E. K. Mulgah, chief inspector of sehoois for the Auckland - Education Board, arrived in Auckland on Friday. He went to England in March last on a year's leave of: absence, and whilst m Britain represented the Education Board ajt a conf erencet of-- the" Imperial Union of Teachers in July last. ■. -■ . ■-'■. ,'■ ; ■.'•-■'

By ;the death of Mrs Jacob Tisch at Fitzroy on Saturday night, Greater New Plymouth has lost one of its most active and useful church workers and exemplary Christian women (says the News). She' was the younger daughter of the late ex-Sergjeant Bosworth, and sister to Mrs E. -DpekrilL Her death will be a severe blow to her bereaved husband, as well as to her sister, and ±vro brothers, her nephews and other relatives, and the greatest sympathy y,Yill be extended to them in their sad loss,_ which creates a gap that will long be felt. Such true women are all too rare.

The Chronicle announces the death of one of Wanganui's oldest, best known, and most highly respected settlers, in th« person of Dr. J&. C. Earle, who passed away on Saturday at the-age of 73 years. The deceased, who was a native of Totnes, in Devonshire, came to New Zealand in 1866, and took up his residence in Wanganui, where he practised his profession until three or four years •■'ago. In the early days, during the fighting oh this coast, he was appointed surgeon to the Imperial and...'Colonial forces. t Though he did not participate in * municipal life, the late Dr. Earle took a keen interest in all that tended to make for the progress of "the district. He was a keen sportsman, and was president of the "Wanganui Jockey Club till a few years ago, when he was elected patron. He was also president of the'Wanganui Club for many years. The deceased leaves a widow* and a grown-up family of three daughters (Mrs Fairburn, Mrs Gill-Carey, and Mtnj Good) and two sons (Mr E. C Earle—now a member of King Edward's Horse—and Dr Maurice Earle, of Wanganui).

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