PERSONAL ITEMS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 2 January 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Lieut-Colonel Claude Weston, of D^O beeU awarded tne

A cable from London states that the TtT' qh .g-^f^ for JNew South Wales, has been knighted. Senior Sergeant Till is at present confined to his horn© through indisposition. Sergeant Taylor, of Wanganui is temporarily in charge of theHawera station.

News lias been received that Second™«X' Ai S^ lth T «f, N«w Plymouth, formerly of th^ Inglewood district, has been wounded. Lieut. Smith was a well-known cricketer and footballer - having represented Taranaki in both branches of sport '

At the Bank of New South Wales on Saturday afternoon (says the Herald) staff to Mr and Mr s N. K. MacDiarmid on the eve of the retirement of Mr MacDiarmid from the service of the bank. Mr MacDiarmid joined the bank at its head office in Sydney 46 years ago, and has been manager of the"New - iymouth branch for over 28 years. An old settler of Waverley, Mr bamuel- Irwin, passed -away somewhat suddenly at the Patea Hospital on Friday night. On Wednesday last he was engaged m stacking,hay on one of his sectjons in the Waverley township, find bad foe misfortune to fal) tram the stack Mr Irwm was taken home and <m Jhursday night he was removed to the Patea hospital, where he died on *nday evening.

News has-been received of the death of Private W . T. Webb, 20475, son of M.r Thom as and Mrs Rosin* #ebb of Welford road, Palmerston, North, 'and Wi i° f 6t6ne ? nd Stratf6rd. Private 010 fT^-rtu^ t* p6tone2B years '¥\ V vl h the Reinforcements ne had been some time in hospital suffering from pneumonia, but in his' last letter he said he was making good pro-