PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 October 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Nurses flill, Lepinc and Austin, of the New Plymouth Hospital, are at present on holiday leave. The Rev. P. A. Crawshaw, who is taking up duties again at New Plymouth for a time, arrives from Onehunga tomorrow. Quartermaster-Sergeant Hoy Okey'has been promoted to the rank of Reffimental Sergeant-Major. He left wtih the Main Body of the Expeditionary Force. At the meeting of of the Taraanki Hospital Board yesterday a resolution of sympathy was passed to Mr. H. Okey, M.P., and Mrs. Okey, in the death of their son, Lionel, recently killed in action in France.

The Wellington telegraph .staff last evening presented Mr. A. J. Talbot, superintendent, with an address expressing appreciation of his efforts on behalf of the staff, especially in the direction of arranging the rotatory Saturday half-holiday. The presentation is the more unusual in that Mr. Talbot has only been in Wellington for seven months.—Press Association.

Mr. .T. W. Russell, of Opunake, received most distressing news on Saturday. In a letter from a sister ir the Old Country he learns that in the recent great offensive he has lost three brothers, three nephews, and three cousins. Besides this, another brother was wounded in the Jutland battle, and is still in hospital. Mr. Russell will have the warmest sympathy of his many friends in his great bereavement, —Star.

"If the German soldiers were pr.dcred to murder every man, woman and child in a town they would do it. because they had to do it. Discipline is so strong and. so terrible." Th?se words were uttered in the course of a Jecturs delivered at Wellington by Professor J. Dickie, M.A., of Dunedin. the professor went on to say that ! n a certain village in Germany a boy—the. son of a baron—inflicted punishment on his playmates so that he might heir the ehrleks of pain. Fritz, senior, psttod his «on on the back and encouraged him in his conduct, so that the humble •'•llajera <vou!d iearn to respect the ruling classes The story was cited as an ili"st;ation of the true German character.