PERSONAL ITEMS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, 21 October 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

A London cable states that the Corporation of the City of London has decided to confer tie freedom of the City of London upon Mr Massey.

Professor H. D. Bedford has left Dunedin, en route to the Western front, in the interests of the V.M.C.A., despite the refusal of the Otago University authorities to gfant him extra leave. .

Our Kapuni correspondent states chat Mr and Mrs E. Harrison nave received word by cable that their son, .Rifleman E. G. Harrison, of the 13th .Reinforcements, who was wounded on September 16, is now progressing favorably.

Quartermaster-Sergeant Douglas Collis (son of Mr and Mrs W. A. Collis, New Plymouth, was killed, in action in France on September 15. Mr Dennis O'RDrke.. son of tne late Sir Maurice o'B.orke, is in England in the Remount' Department of the War Office. Mr O'Rorke married Miss A Rhodes, of Christchureh, sister of the Hon. R. Heaton Rhodes, late Post-master-General of the Dominion. Their eldest son, Lieutenant O'Rorke, is now m France with his regiment, the 12th Lancers. Their second son. recently mentioned in dispatches/ wEo nasa commission with the 60th K.R.R., has been twice wounded and gassed, but. is now back at the front.