PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14407, 18 May 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL.

News has been,received that Lieutenant K. Saxon, .who was on.,the teaching staff of Nelson College, has been promoted to be captain. He has been in England since he was wounded on the Somrae.

Miss Elsie. Booth, of Nelson, on arrival in England in December, went to the 2nd New Zealand General Hospital, Walton-on-Thames, and afterwards to the Priority Branch of the Ministry of Munitions.

Mrs Thomason, of Wai-iti, has received cable advice that her con, Private A. E. Thomason, has been admitted to the New Zealand General Hospital Codford, suffering from an old gunshot \round.

Tlie death has occurred at New Plj'mouth of Mr Daniel Berry, an old resident, well known in the hardware trade and through his connection with the late Sir Alfred Cadman in ironsand enterprises .—Press Association.

At the Nelson Provincial Conference of the Farmers' Union yesterday, a motion \v as passed expressing deep regret at the death of Uie late Mr Thomas Bell, and placing on record the branch's appreciation of the services he had rendered to the union. The motion was carried in silence, members standing.

"The friends of the Bei\ C. H. Harvey, vicar of Wadestown, Wellington, now chaplain to the Twenty-fifth Reinforcements, will be grieved to hear that his brothei', Captain C. L.. Harvey, Lincoln, England, died of wounds on Thursday, May" 10th.