Personal Pars

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 391, 24 March 1937, Page 4

Personal Pars

Mr W. P, Mill: r, Railway Traffic Manager, and Mr A. Grant, Business Manager, of Wellington, have been visiting Stratford., staying at the County Hotel. Mr Percy -Thornton, Stratford, wll represent the Egmont National Park Board at a conference called -by the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. W- E. Puiry,. to discuss, forest preservation. Mr S. E. Neilson, who has resign'd from the position of secretary of he laranaki Rugby Union, was pre.ent.'d with, a cocktail shaker at a dinner .at Stratfoi-d last evening, blended by m.mbers of the mafiagen nt cnuimiltee.

Mr Richard Entail, the popular conductor of the Woolston Band, recently met with an accident, and as the result of jthe fall received injuries to his hedfl and ribs that will- incapacitate him for about a month. The deaths of Messrs. J. S. Me Kay (Waimate),. R. Grteubanks : (HaIweru), and A. Cook (Stratford United Old Boys), who had been promin■ntly .associa^t^d,. v,'.th Rugby in Taranaki, were referred to at the annual n etiag of the Taranaki Rugby Union last night, memibers standing in silence a. a mirk of rtspect. Mr R. H. Burmester who for the past 15 years has b;.n accountant at the Stratford branch of Newton King Ltd., was on Saturday appointed by | (.-he directors of the company to the I position of manager of the Stratford . branch in succession to the late Mr I A. Thorne.