PERSONAL

Waikato Times, Volume 93, Issue 14521, 19 November 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr J. D. Holmes, engineer to the Te Awamutu-Pularuru Railway Board, was in Hamilton to-day.

It is anticipated that the testimonial, which will be presented to Mr Hughes, th e Federal Premier, on Wednesday, will reach £20,000.

Mr G. H. Wallace was unanimously elected secretary and treasurer of the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce at the annual meeting, vice Mr \V. It. Woolley, resigned.

Mr Victor Lerkie, who was injured hist week through the bursting of an emery wheel, is making favourable progress in the Waikato Hospital.

Lieutenant A. S. Fraser, who, while a patient at King George Hospital at liotorua, acted as chairman of the soldiers' recreation committee, was presented with a token of esteem by the patients prior to his departure from llolorua.

A Press Association cablegram from London states that considerable progress has already been made in connection with the memorial to Lord Forrest of Bunburry. The London proposal consists of the erecting of a stained glass window in the House of Lords, and placing a tablet in Westminster Abbey.

Writing from London to his late chief private secretary, Mr 11. Oakley Browne, Sir Joseph Ward slates that as far as his health is concerned, "i am now Al at Lloyds, and feel better than I have done for years. We are enjoying our visit; our friends ■ arc kindness personified, and we have to decline everlasting requests to be entertained."

The friends, and they are many, of Mr J. Ryan, the popular representative of Messrs Campbell, Ehrenfried Ltd., who met witli a serious motor accident at Coromandel in July, will be pleased to learn that he is now on the road again, although still suffering .to some extent from the result of his injuries.

In response to an influential deputation representing both the east and west side of the river, Mr 11. E. Tristram has consented' to allow himself to be nominated for the vacancy on the Hamilton Borough Council. Mr Tristram was formerly chairman of the Works Committee, and is desirous of seeing some of the important works of Ihe borough finished before he finally retires from public life. Sergean-Major Capp, who acted as an instructor at Awapuni Camp in the early stages of the war, has resigned from the Defence Force. SergeantMajor Capp saw service at the front, and on his return to the Dominion acted as sergeant-major at Chalmers Military Hospital, Christchurch, instructor at the Officers' Training Corps Depot at the Otago University, prior to his transfer to Rotorua as Sergeantmajor at King George Hospital. He will be succeeded by Sergeant-Major Turner, of the Queen Mary Hospital, Hanmer.