PERSONAL ITEMS

Nelson Evening Mail, 14 November 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr Ohas - . Bicketts, tPort Nelson, was advised to-day by thVHigh Commissioner that -Corporal'Hoy Bicketts and Acting,' Bombardier Charles Bicketts, both of whom had been in hospital in France, , suffering from wounds, had: rejoined , their batteries.

Farrier-Smith Roy W. Bridger, who returned from' Egypt by an Australian troopship, and came .on to Now Zealand in the 1 Riverina, arrived in Nelson, this moritirig, when he was .mat by his,relatives and Mr W. W. Snodgrass.. He was shot thrbugh 'both knee's in,, the desert fight of 4th,. August, .but has progressed satisfactorily since. .... ;,:

Mr G. S. Haycock. * of Bright water, has received a letter . from his son,: Roy (in his own handwriting), who was wounded in France on 21st September, stating that he had been; removed .to Base. "A cable received the other da-y; « stated that he was v in England. ..;.'

Mr \V. Hi Atack, general manager of the United Prjss Association, who-has. been on a short" visit to Nelson, left this morning en route to the West Coast; where he intends visiting the Franz Josef Glacier.

The Rev. F. YV. Ts\t, the well-known Methodist Minister, formerly secretary of the New Zealand Alliance, d>icd on Saturda.v ifrocro luart failure, says a ■. Press-Association telegram fropi TJunedin. The- late .Mr -Tvitfr was -born- at Bedford on October 3, 1846,, andi was educated «* Bedfoixl' Grammar School and Richmond College. Ho engaged in' business .piuWits in Birmingham), Alan-' Chester and' London frcm 1860 to 1868, and u.mvcd' in Auckland in> 1870. He was in> the active ministry of the Wesle-' van Church fro-™ 1870 t0'1879, and after "eight years rei'red on account of ill-, health. * After resting for a while ho returnpd to the activo work, and was in Nelson for a period of three years, 1890 to 1893. A few vears later ho again s retired from the Church and became, a strenuous worker *in . the NoLicense cause ami was a vicepresident of the New Zealand Alliance. He was appointed .general sec'rotary of the Alliance in 3909, but had) ■to retire en account of Ul-bealth, . ~ „•