ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 17866, 17 January 1918, Page 5

ABOUT PEOPLE

A London rail Ip records (hr death of Dr Tierin’ Butler, Mae ter of Trinity College, Cambridge, aged 84. The death is announced of Mr .loehua •Inner, well known for many years in connection with claims against the Government concerning Moknn lands, aged 73 years. Dr T. S. Fleming, of Gore, has received information from the Defence authorities requesting him to report st headquarters for medical service next week. Private advice has been received in Gore that Private .1. D. Forbes, the crack Eastern District cash .sprinter, who is being invalided homo is aboard a transport which is due in Port Chalmers early next month. Messrs T. \V. Foster and .1. Fisher, Auuth Island delegates on behalf of the dairy factories, again left for Wellington on Tuesday morning in connection with the Government purchase of this season’s dominion cheese output. Mr W. Wadworth, of Warwick Downs, who went Home in April, 191 ti, and enlisted with King Edwards Horse, afterwards obtained a commission in. the West. Lancashire*. Lieutenant Wadworth was officially rc|X>rlcd missing from Nov. 30th, but further advice states that lie is wounded and a prisoner of war in Germany. A cable message received last, week contained, inter alia. the information that Mirses V. Bell, A. M. Herbert, A. J. Pearce, E. Stuckey, .1. C. Watson, Mesdames A. V. Gnodchild, and E. W. Stewart, of the New Zealand Voluntary Aid Detachments, had been gazetted as members of the Order of the British Empire. Mrs Stewart and her sister, Miss Herbert, are the daughters of the late Mr J. F. Herbert, of Ardmore Station, Kelso. Mrs Stewart is the wife of the late Lieutenant-colonel G. H. Stewart, who died at Lemnos from enteric fever, and who also had a station at Kelso, Colonel Stewart and his brother-in-law, Captain A. S. Herbert, left in charge of the Fifth Reinforcements, and Mrs Stewart and Miss Herbert shortly after went to Cairo. There, although they hail no previous knowledge of nursing, they quickly qualified in that capacity. The valuable work (hey did in Cairo is spoken of in terms of unstinted admiration by the many soldiers who came under their care. After the evacuation of Gallipoli both ladies went to France, and after a time travelled to England, where they have been employed L-ver since in the Brockenliurst Hospital. In many other ways they have assisted in :;hc activities for the welfare and comfort if the soldiers. Their work has been a iab>ur of love; its chief reward is the unboundid gratitude of the soldiers who have come tnder their tender care. From the Welington papers it appears that two of the ■eciqients of the distinction are Miss Violet Beil, youngest daughter of Sir Francis and jady Bell, q,nd Miss Aggies Pearce, younger laughter of Mr and Mrs Arthur Pearce, of Wellington, both of whom have been doing var work in England for some time past.