PERSONAL.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15183, 31 March 1917, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Lieut. D. F. Duigan, who •y.mt ttwgff the 9th Reinforcements (Auet* laud Infantry), and was .wounded in( - the Somme battle, haa rejoined his regiment, and has been-, promoted to ni first lieutenancy.

. Lieutenant M. W.. G. Sprat*, of the Bishop/ of Wellington, has b00*,., awarded the Military Cross. Lieutenant Howard Edwards, NJB* - M.C.. and son of Mr 0. H. Edwards, of Napier, has been promoted to the. rank of captain and ordered to Samoa* Captain J. F. S. Jasdesee, l£B. t Resident Surgeon at the Nekion By prtai, has been appointed a - memtaor df a Special District Medical Board. The death is announced of "Mm can, of Wanganui East. The deoeawd, who was the widow, of the’ Ifito Mr. A»* drew Duncan,: was one of Wangwrsi’U - oldest settlers, «nd was. most eet*ea*«d by a wide circle of friends. Tlte hd* Mrs Duncan was a colonist jtA over SO years’ standing. She woe a member qf the well-known. Ayrshire ■« family of ita* Boyds. Her late husband, Mr Aadnip’ Duncan, was one of the very eartieaft settlers in Wanganui. \ For some yeeng past her health had been bat her mind remained clear and alen to the last. Mrs Duncan was the moth** of the Mayoress (Mrs C. E. Maekay), ha whom with other members of the family] much sympathy is extended.

Mr Garnet 6. Bell, solicitor, leave Christchurch shortly for tbifi North Island, haying acquired a nership > in a Waikato legal firm, aoyi/* the Evening News. Mr W. Dunn, local manager of tfi» Westport Coal Company's MiUerton Celeries, retires pn pension at the end of the present month. Mr W. MeCor mack has been promoted to fill tha position, Mr Pearson taking his phn** t. A third certificated manager is to b« appointed (says the Westport News), j can be taken for granted, wrifij* , the Hawke’s Bay Herald’s Dannevnfca correspondent, that there will be no. contest for the.Majority here this ystf as- Mr E-. A. Ransom has. decided tn ■ offered himself for the position. Ho has already done seven years’ good work in the chair aad his ability as • municipal chief cannot be gainsaid. A""'