PERSONAL ITEMS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 23 May 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

A cablegram from Halifax, Nova, Scotia, states that Mr Massey and Sir Joseph AVard have arrived there on. their way home. Mrs Grant, of Princes street, has received advice that her son, Gunner W_ Grant, who left with the Main Body,, and was recently reported ill, has beeiL removed to a convalescent hospital iiu England. Mr R. H. Boyd, an old Hawera boy,, who has for a number of years been on the staff of the Wanganui Post. Office, has received notice of transfer on promotion as chief clerk in the Hamilton Post Office. Mr F. M. Byrne, of Manaia, has^ received cable information from London that two of his sons at the front,.. Private A. E. Byrne and Gunner J. R. Byrne, are at present in England: training for commissions... An Auckland pres^. message reportsthe death of Wm. Hazard, one of last survivors of the 57th Regiment, aged 77. He landed in New Zealand with his regiment in 1862, and had eight, years' service in the colony, going;: through the whole of the 'Parana ki war. After an interval in Australia. Hazard took up land in the Manganui district, afterwards entering into business as a gum and general merchant.. Steen, also a member of the 57th Regiment, died early this month, and theloss of his friend- is considered largely responsible for Hazard's 3eath. The Minister of Defence has received advice that Brigadier-General E. W. C. Chaytor, officer commanding: the New Zealand Mounted Rifle Brigade, has succeeded to the command' of a division, which usually carries the rank of major-general. Colonel \Y. A'oidrum, the officer commanding the Wellington Mounted Rifles, succeeds Brigadier-General Chaytor as Brigadier. Colonel Meldrum, prior to the war, had a legal practice at Hunterville, and commanded the 6th Manawatu Mounted Rifles. He left with the Main Body as officer commanding the Wellington Mounted Rifles.—Press Association.