PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 37, 18 May 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

At the great age of 99 years, Mrs Tareha sen., has just died at Hawke’s Bay.

Mr Percy Bastings, of Invercargill, a returned trooper, has been appointed dispenser and house steward at the New Plymouth Hospital, out of eight applicants.

h Inspector Wilson, of the Wanganui and Taranaki police district, intends to retire shortly after forty years’ service. Inspector Wilson will probably take up his residence in Auckland. j Horace Larking, one of the victims i of the quarry fatality at Ohakune, was | an old Patea boy ? and a son of Mr J. F. G. Larking, for many years in busi- | ness in Patea. I ! Miss Muriel Berry, assistant in the i Taranaki County Office, has tendered her resignation, having been appointed county clerk for the Ohura County Council, where she begins her duties | on the 25th inst. | Another old colonist, in the person I of Mrs Elia A. Davies, passed away at the Hawera Hospital on Sunday last. The deceased lady, who was nearly 72 years, was born in Herefordshire. England. Mrs Davies settled in Normanby about twelve years ago, where she was much respected. She is survived by her husband (Mr John Davies), three sons and two daughters. Out of forty-three applications from all parts of the Dominion, Mr A. F. Graham, of Dunedin, was appointed secretary of the Taranaki Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. He is a single man, aged 31, and has his widowed mother and sister dependent on him, his brother Having been “killed in action” on the Gallipoli Peninsula. He has been for the past seven years assistant iu the office of the Otago Hospital and Charitable Aid Board.