PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mataura Ensign, 24 October 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hon. Jamo-. Alien (Act'ng Prime Min , i.'ti’r and Minister tor Defence) passed Ctough Gore hy last night's express train to Invercargill. The" MLiivster rc'iniird North l>y ilris afternoon's express. air A. If. HahHcstohe, cf 101 endale, tc eivetl cable advice yesterday to the •'licet (hat his mn Arnold, wo was reported wounded act.ion in Franre. and woo had portion of the right leg ampula-ted a.s a result, has siuMimbed to Jiis injuries. Lan -C u poral J. R.. .Meade, report - ed killed in action was a native of Victoria. He was well known in the (fore district., where lie followed the o ecu pa non of a general laborer and worked a.i various t.iues for Messrs .1, G. Cnnokshank. .1. .Muir. M’. Gilmour aiul .Jackson Minim. He . enlisted at the first open-air meeting held at. Gore. District Nurse To Au (tornuudy of Gore), who hja s been relieving Sister 1-owis among the natives of Otaki ami tlsstiiet for the past, two and a-half yeait J . has left- i-ho the Otaki district, on route lor her home at invereamill (states tile ‘Dominion’). She is visiting Rotorua. A nek land, and elsewhere jin the meantime. Nurse To Au will be much missed from Otaki. particularly jin muisical circles, as she assisted at j many local concerts. I