PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 February 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL.

An Auckland message states that-Second-Lieutenant AY. E. Moore, of Auckland, has been awarded the Military Cross.

Mr. J. D. Campbell, of Taihape, was yesterday appointed by the Harbor Board to the position of second engineer of the dredge Paritutu. Advice has been received by Mrs. E. A. Lobb, Wostown, that her son. Private H. Lobb, has been wounded and admitted to hospital.

A London cable states that Mr. MasBey opened a temperance club at Poplar, which was financed by an anonymous benefactor as a memorial to the East Enders who are defending the Empire.

The members of the first Welling Military Service Board—Messrs I). 6. A. Cooper, S.M., W. Perry, 'and D. McLaren —will arrivo in New Plymouth this evening. The Board will sit at the Courthouse on Monday.

Lieutenant-Colonels Guthrie and Fulton, examiners of the third Wellington Medical Board, Captain Bond, dental officer, Lieutenant Ansel!, attesting officer, and Mnjor Cox, group officer, arrived in New Plymouth last evening. An examination of recruits will be held today at the Drill Hall. Examinations will be held at Stratford on Monday, and at Hawera on Tucsdav.

Staff-Sergeant-Major. Eyre, son of Mr Eyre, customs collector at New Plymouth, who has been on the stall of the Defence Department for the past eighteen months, has gone into camp at Trenthain, where he will be attached to one of the reinforcements leaving New Zealand shortly. Sergeant-Major Eyre enlisted with the Main Body, but three days prior to sailing he met with an accident, and ho had to remain in New Zealand.

Mrs. Harriet S. Whitney, of Winderholm, Waiwera, died recently at Auckland; aged 83 years. She was a daughter of the Rev. W. Chaworth-Mnsters, and great-granddaughter of Mary Cliaworth, Annesley Parle, Nottingham, who was made famous to the world through the medium of Lord Byron's poems. Slui married Major Whitney in ISGO, and came to Auckland. 32 years ago. Mrs. Whitney leaves two 6ons and two daughters. 1 Mr. Gerard, late United States Ambassador to Germany, is above all else typically American. He is a trained lawyer, and an experienced judge, but lie is also, as a man, vigorous, bold and businesslike to a most exceptional degree. He possesses physical and mental qualifications of no ordinary kind, and he has often proved their value during his varied and adventurous career. An expert swimmer, a clever boxer, a crack shot, an enthusiastic volunteer soldier, he has always been a popular and attractive figure in American social life, and his cool intrepidity as well as his long training in New York politics was an invaluable asset for his many British friends during the great crisis at the outbreak of the war. Looking back upon those eventful days, one of his admirers observes: "Jimmy Gerard never knew the meaning of the word fear, and the unfailing courage and pugnacity with which he has tool up to the Kaiser's Government have been in full keeping iwitli his virile temperament." Straightforward, manly and decisive, Mr, Gerard has been an ideal representative for the United States in its dealings with the evasive, dishonest and bullying methods in vogue at Berlin. All this he prved nearly three years ago, and during the past months he must have had countless opportunities for confirming the high refutation thftfc he I then won,