PERSONAL.

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13929, 10 July 1917, Page 2

PERSONAL.

U.i' : HaroldAV. Tidman, foriiieily mailagir of the local branch of Iters, Clm;i, Begg and Co,, and who latterly held the position ofaciMnintant in the Southland Fanners' Co-operative Association, Ltd., has now succeeded ilr J. A. Doull in. the management ox the Invereargill branch of the association. • ■ ■■ •'

Mr Alan Cochrane, a returned soldier, son of'Mr G, V. Cochrane, County Clerk, Waimate, was successful in drawing a run of 800 acres of beautiful sheep country in the Hawk's Bar district. There were niuefeeh applicants, and the ballot was only open to.returned soldiers.

Word lias been received' (says our own correspondent) that Private Geo. Joiner, who left Enfield for the front, .and was reported wounded at llcssiucs is further reported dangerously wounded. The residents of the district join ,s the hope that further more favourable uew3 will soon eonie to hand.

It is now learnt authoritatively that the Papal Delegate in Australia '(Archbishop Ceretti), who recently left for Home, was recalled to replace Monsignor Paeelli, who had been for some time secretary of the Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary 'Ecclesiastical Affairs, at the Vntiean, and has been appointed Papal Nuncio to Bavaria.

Mr IT. Bands, M.A., B.Sc, formerly senior science master at Waitaki High School, who left Xew Zealand in order to take up research work for the Munitions Department of the Imperial Government, is at present engaged under Professir H, B. Dixon at the Manchester •University conducting experiments in connection with the use of high explosives,

Mr A. W. Bethune, Inspector of Machinery, Surveyor of Ships, and Chief Examiner of Engineers at Chiistehureh, recently retired from the service, after spending thirty years with the Department, He joined the service on .lane 4, 188;), and served as third, second and chief engineer of the Government steamers until 189(1, when he left for Great Britain to superintend the construction of the cable steamer Tutanekai. Tie wan chief engineer of the ship until 1000, when he was appointed to the position which he lias held up to date. It is understood that Mr Bethune for a time, will reside at Eotorua.

Sergeant Frank Perkins, Otago 7 s sprint champion, has been distinguishing himself on the athletic field in France. In a letter to the president of the Dniiedin Centre of the Xtw Zealand Amateur Athletic Association, he

says:—"A championship meeting -was held in France on Anzac Day. The events were between six Australian divisions and the New Zealand division, each division being allowed only one competitor, I was selected to represent Xew Zealand, so I immediately went into training with A. E. Thompson, the V/est Coast boxer, as trainer. The day was beautifully fine, and I am pleased to say I ran up to my eld form, winning the 100 yds and 220.yds."' ' *

A cablegram has been received from London that Captain Bruce 11. Morison, the eldest son cf Mr C. B, Moiison, K.C, has been again wounded in France. He left New Zealand with the 'Main Body as a second-lieutenant in Colonel Malone 's regiment (Wellington Battalion). He earned his lieutenancy nt Gallinoli, and was wounded at Quinn's Post by a bomb and sent to England. He rejoined his regiment in France in 1916, and was wounded by a shell fragment in the Battle of the Somme, and later received his captaincy. In the fighting at Messines he has now been wounded for the third time. Captain Morison is a grandson of the late Hen. Colonel Haultain, formerly of the 39th (Dorsets), who sewed with his regiment in India and Burmali, commanded a Waikato regiment at Ornhau, and was Minister of Defence in the Stafford Ministry during the last. Maori War. Captain, Morison was a Wanganui College boy, where he was captain of the College Cadets and the football'fifteen.

The death occurred on Sunday after a prolonged illness of Mr James Strnchnii, a- very and and well respected citizen of Timaru (says Hit: Herald), w.ho was the first to develop the bathing potentialities cv Caroline Bay, and claimed to have put the first standard and wire fence on the Levels station. Jtr Strachan was bom nt Cupar, Fyfc, Scotland, on July 21, 1X42, and won't to sea before, he was fourteen. After two years hi left the ship Stratiiallnn ■at Port Chalmers, travelled to Mackenzie Country where he took what employment he could get, and gradually . worked .his way as far north as Auck-Jj land. There he joined the Colonial"''. sloop Victoria, ituring the Ta/annki war of ISfiO-Gl, but left after sixteen months and worked his way to Dtago, 'He was for a time on the goldlields at Gabriel's Gulley, Nokomai, Arrow, Shot-" . over, and Cromwell, and also visited the West Coast. Mr Strachan abandoned the goldlields, however, and Mind employment in wire-fencing at the Levels Station, in 18GS he paid a return visit to Scotland, and on his return kept a stove at Pleasant Point for eight, years. Later, he had a drapery business in Timaru. After giving up that business he took a contract for the erection of forty miles of rabbit fencing, in the Mackenzie Country. In 1592 he started the bathing machines at Caroline Bay, and he. afterwards established bathing machines at- Sumner' and New Brighton, returning to develop this enterprise at Timaru, .where the bathing, under hid control, became a rapidly increasing business, which was taken over by the council some four years ago, He was for a short time a member of the Timaru Borough Council. Mr Strachan married in 18(38 Miss McLennan, of Rossshire, Scotland, and hat! ''five daughters and four sons, one of whom is Mr W'. Strachan of Oamaru.