PERSONAL.

Northern Advocate, 20 July 1915, Page 2

PERSONAL.

New comers to Ohaeawai include Mr and Mrs Downs and family, Mr and Mrs Dobson and Mr and Miss Dix. Among the returned wounded taken to the district hospital, Auckland, is Private C. L. Nisbitt, of Kaeo, suffering from nervous debility.' Mr W. Stewart, M.P., has resided his position as chairman of the Bay of Islands Hospital Board owing to his Parliamentary duties. Farther reports show that Privates Baillie, of Dargaville, and Moore, of Waimatenui, Northern Wairoa, .last returned from the front, are able to proceed to their homes. Mr Campbell, morse operator at Kawakawa, has been transferred, to Mangonui. Mr Leslie Bindon, from Wellington, is to take his place. Mr Bindon is well-known in the district as he was formerly stationed at Ohaeawai, Mr J. W. Benwell returned from Wellington by the Manaia this morning, after a week's absence from Whangarei. Mr Benwell reports things to be in a flourishing condition in the capital city, but says the climate is not at all to be compared to the general 'climate of Whangarei. The Kawakawa Hospital staff is !iow practically a new one. Dr. Efeeles. Matron Hawken and Nurse Bayly having left to serve their country. The List two named will.serve on the hospital ship. Last Wednesday afi.einoon Messrs J. T. Peat and R. Passell, two Dargaville chemists, ieft there to join the ambulance at Trentham:

The Kawakawa Hospital Board has secured the services of Dr. Hagen, of Westport, as its medical superintendent. Before leaving, th e citizens of Westport tendered a social evening to the doctor. The Mayor, said Dr. and Mrs Hagen had been prominent in assisting all movements for the advancement of the town and district. Dr. Hagen was presented with a handsome clock and Mrs Hagen with a choice entree dish and servers.

Private Xgawaka Pirihi, New Zealand Field Ambulance, who has been officially reported as wounded, is now said, in private advices received by his relatives, to have been fatally shot through the head. Ho was one of the first Maoris to volunteer for active service. Born in 1894, he was a son of Mr William Pirihi, of Onerahi, Auckland. In 1909, when at the Native school at Takahiwai, Whangarei, he won a scholarship at St. Stephen's College, Auckland. Two years later he passed the Junior Civil Service examination, and was appointed to " the Auckland branch of the RegistrarGeneral's Department. While at St. Stephen's he had had considerable special training in attending the sick, and so he entered the field ambulance when he became a Territorial. He went away with the field ambulance in the Main Expeditionary Force, and was one of 12 men selected for special training in the Abbasia Hospital, Cairo.