PERSONAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17063, 16 August 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr H. Reynolds, well known in trotting circles in the capacity of starter for the past twenty years, leaves Christd'hurch for Trentham within the next fortnight. A few months ago Mr Reynolds offered his services to the Defence Department as a musketry instructor.

Mr. William Joseph Smith, one of the most prominent members of the Wellington Working Men's Club, died at Wellington on Monday after an illness extending over many months. He was 55 years of age, and, came to New Zealand over forty years ago. He first of all settled in Marton, where he established a profitable business. He was associated with the Marton Band for some years, most of the time as its conductor.

The remains of the late Mr. "Walter Taylor, of Wanganui East, were laid to rest yesterday in the Aramoho Cemetery, in the presence of t a large gathering of relatives. The officiating minister was the Rev. G. W. Blair, of Eastown. The late Mr. Taylor was born in Bombay, India, in the year 1845. His father was Mr. Walter Taylor, who was accountant at the Bank of Bombay, but emigrated to New Zealand, "and settled in Wanganui in the year 1865, when he started a newspaper known as the "Wanganui Times" (now the "Wanganui Chronicle"), of which he was both proprietor and editor up to 1870, when failing health compelled him to abandon the enterprise. The deceased married Miss Perry in 1874, and leaves a widow and thirteen children. He had resided in Wanganui East for ten years, was a memb&r'of the Eastown Presbyterian Church, and was much respected by all who knew him.

Dr. G. J. Adams. F.R.C.S. (Edin.), late of Patea and Foxton, avlio was on a visit to Scotland when the war broke out, immediately offered his services to the War Office, and was appointed regimental doctor to the Royal Scots, and as such,saw much hot fighting in the trenches in Flanders, in the early months of the titanic struggle. Early., last year he was recalled to England as. surgeon-specialist to the Ripon Military Hospital, but has now returned to France as a specialist in the 26th General Hospital, one of the largest and most important bases < in the northern section of the British line.