PERSONAL ITEMS,

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 8 September 1923, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS,

The Rev. Alfred Drake, vicar of Te> Kuiti, is ill. The Rev. F. Latter has* consented to do Mr Drake's work forthe present.

The New Zealand friends of Dr., Harold Wilson (Wavedey) will be interested to learn that lie has taken hi«*. M.D. degree at Edinburgh, and that, he has, been awarded a gold medal forhis thesis (writes a London correspon—

A London cable announces the death: ?v Sir, William Treloar, nrincipal oF the well-known firm of Treloar aiufc bons, Ludgate Hill, He was Lord Mayor of in 1906 and 1907~ when he founded the T.reloar Hospital! and college for cripples. Sir William* was 80 years of age.

Mr Frank Schroeder, who died atb lnglewood last week, at the age of 72*. years, was 40 years ago a road, contractor on the Oeo, Skeet and Opunake? iroads. " ■ Miss C. E. Roberts, B.Sc. (London), who has been appointed to the, staff of" the local District Hiq;h School, arrived' in Patea by the mail train on Wednesday. The Hon. the Minister of Education, accompanied by Mr J. R. Carrigan ' MP. will pay a visit to the Patea. School on . Wednesday next at 11 30^ a.m. The death took place at Tamworth, Australia, recently, of Mr Arthur F. Maitland, brother of Mrs T. Moss, of" Jiemont Street. Patea. The deceased; saw service during the Great \Yair, leaving Australia with the 4th Brigade, 13th Battalion, known as the "Fight— ing 13th." After a time he was de--tached, and went to HeadquartersStaff, later rejoining his. regiment in • France, where he was badly gassed. He is survived by a widow and infanfcchild. for whom the deepest sympathy will be felt. " , At a meeting of the directors of the-« New Plymouth Investment and Edan Society on Thursday the following re solution, proposed by Mr T..Furlong,, was carried: "That this Board of, Directors place on record* its sense of the ; loss sustained by the societr in the— death of M.r W. F. Brooking' who fori* 32 years had rendered valuable service*:.. first as director and subsequently as. chairman. In both positions he served - the best interests of shareholders. Thfcboard tender to his widow their sym--pathy in her sad bereavement."

The. death was announced from New York recently of Rear-Admiral Charles .. Dwight Sigsbee. Admiral Sigsbee will ' perhaps be chiefly remembered as hay- -' ing commanded the U.S.B. Maine from April 10, 1897, until she'was blown up * and destroyed in Havana,harbour in February, 1898. He was an" able offi- V cer, who introduced' numerous inventions and hew methods in deep-sea, exploration, on which he wrote a book. After the Spanish-American T?ar W* was nominated by the! President for "extraordinary heroism." : Later W~ commanded successively the South Atlantic Sauadron and the Second Divi--i won of the North Atlantic Fleet, and. retired in 1907. He married a daugh- - ter of General H. H. Loekwood.