PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15046, 14 April 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. J. J. Corry has decided, at the request of a deputation o$ business men, to stand, again for the office of Mayor of Blenheim at the coming ekt tion.

Sister J. L. Flower, of Motueka, who is returning to New Zealand by the hospital ship Maheno, has had three years' war service as a member of the New, Zealand Army Nursing Service.

Base Records has advised Mrs J. Harle that her son, Private L. D. Frank, is arriving with draft 235 by the Raranga, on the 23rd inst. Private Frank has been three and a half years on active service.

Advice has been received that Gun- j ncr A. W. Switzer, who left witli'the Eleventh Reinforcements, is returning to New Zealand by the Corinthic due at Lyttelton on 'the 22nd insß. Gunner Switzer was on the staff of the local office of the ■Union Steam Ship Company, for several years. ; I

The death has occurred of Captain J. Warren, for ,39 years clerk to the Cook County Council. Deceased saw active service during the Maori, War in the Waikato in 1864-65. In recognition of his long and valuable services as clerk and - treasurer to the Cook County Council, a purse of sovereigns was presented to Captain Warren by the council and citizens on March 21st last.