PERSONAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144827, 3 November 1915, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Foster, Wanganui, are staying at the Whit© Hart. A London cable states that Mr. F. E. Smith has been appointed Attorney-. General. A London cable announces the death, from pneumonia, of Lewis Waller, the well-known actor.

Having sold his property and therefore not being any longer a ratepayer in the county, Councillor J. A. Bndgeman has resigned his position as a member of the Taranaki County Council.

Nurse Jean Sinclair, who is one of those rescued from the Marquette, was formerly a teacher under the Taranaki Board, and then entered the nursing profession and received her training at the New Plymouth Hospital. About two years ago she left, the institution in order to take up private nursing, and left New Zealand with the second hatch of nurses. Nurse Bessie Young, of Hawera, was also for some yeate m the New Plymouth Hospital.

At the monthly meeting of the Taranaki County Council on Tuesday afternoon the chairman (Councillor JBrown) was voted an honorarium or £IOO in recognition of his services during the past year. ■ Several members spoke in eulogistic terms of the work of Mr. Brown during the past year, mentioning that for some months the council were without the services of an overseer, and that therefore the work falling upon .' the' chairman had been muen more heavy than usual.

The many friends of Mr. E. E. Nalder will regret to hear that, after having been in Tauheremkau Hospital sanerine from a recurrence of an old complaint, the medical board have decided that it would.be inadvisable for him to serve abroad. The hard Ufe mid exposure in the trenches would almost certainly bring about another attack, and with serious results. In cense quence Mr. Nalder has left camp, and will return,to Hawera shortly Me was very keen to go, and naturally is ex tremely not being accepted for service. —Hawera Star.