PERSONAL ITEMS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 115, 21 May 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

I The following returned soldiers arrived !by the Pateena this morning: —Sergt. !A* C. Snow, Privates E. W. McD j Snow, F. W. Eades, C. H. Seaton, and Couzens (main body man). A New York Press cable states that Miss Dorothy Brunton has left for London under contract. She returns later | to fill a leading rolo in a New "ibrk enl gagement. At the annual conference of the Nel- ( son branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union held at tho Institute to-day. a vote of sympathy was passed with the relatives of ■ those who had been 'killed and wounded at the front. Ine 1 vote was passed in silence, the delegates i standing.' I Bandsman E. Gibbs. of the National j Reserve Band who left with the Rein- ! forcements this morning, was entertain- : ed at a social last evening by the Band, ■of which he has been: a member for nine years. He was also the recipient of a set of military hair brushes. The I presentation was made by Mr J. Fitz- '[ Gerald, the president. Several members j spoke highly of the valuable r services Bandsman Gibbs had rendered to the '■• Band. Reference was also made to the fact that the Band had sent 15 mem- J bers to the front. i Mr A. Mcßri'de, of Collingwood- , street, has received cable advice that his brother,' Private John Mcßride, was admitted to hospital, France, between 7th and 12th May, wounded in | the right leg. '