PERSONAL.

Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 86, 13 April 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL.

*t~ 'Captain W. Carrol Havley, who has - , returned to Nei-on from active service on sick leave, is to leave again in about a month's time.

Last night the Blenheim Borough. Council passed a resolution oieon- ■•- dolence to be conveyed to the relatives of the late Private F. Thomas,. who was recently killed in action.

Sergeant P. O'Hara, .of Wellington, is relieving Sergeant Hanson in the charge of the local police district, the latter being being, away from .Blenheim on leave for a few days.

Captain Cr. M. Spenee, who -sis at". present engaged in organising work in connection with the military hospital at Featherston. has been spending a few days in Blenheim. Hewill return to* camp to-morrow.

Messrs W. Lock (an ex-Mayor) and' "W. W. Snodgrass (an ex-Councillor) are candidates for the Mayoralty of Nelson. Mr Snodgrass contested the seat on a previous occasion, b2at was unstiecessful. ■■"""■

Lieutenant H. C. Cock, of the 11Ba.ttery, left .Nelson on Tuesday to join the Thirty-first Artillery Reinforcements at Featherston Gamp. Limit. P. C. Hurst left yesterday tojoin the same draft. Messrs Walter George Foster (chairman), William Drummond Stewart, and Dr Charles John Reakes, all. of Wellington, have beeii appointed a= Requisitions Committee iir-eonnection with the acquisition by the Government of the New Zealand wool clip.

Mr C. G. Sidford, agent for the* A.M.P. Society in Nelson, has enlisted, and leaves at the end1 of .themonth to join the Twenty-nintir Reinforcements. Mr feidford, theColonist states, served in theSouth Afrcan War as a sergeant m the Sixth Contingent, and holds the^ Queen's Medal with five clasps."" Heacted as secretary to the Nelson K«cruiting Association in the campaigKwhich resulted in 566 voluntary enlistments being received, and hns always*" taken a keen interest,in war work.