PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8109, 14 May 1906, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr Seddon left for Sydney on Saturday night by the Warrimoo. Mr Furkert, officer in charge of the Public Works Office in Stratford, has received promotion, and leaves for Taihape at an early date. Mr Stanley Paul, who received his first training with Mr P. W. Hall, the well-known New Plymouth chemist, and is now with Messrs Sharland and Co., in Wellington, has passed his final eh. mistry examinations. He has been the recipient of many congratulatory messages from New Plvmouth friends,

If the big Taranaki and Parapara iron manufacturing company which J. H. Witheford is endeavouring to float in London should come off, an old Aucklauder stands to mako his fortune, says tho " Observer." This is Daniel Berry, who has ranked with E. U. Smith, M.H.E., for the last twenty years or so as the principal promoter and advocater of the Taranaki ironsand. Mr Berry is closely connected with the well-known Sims family of boat-builders here, and is t brother of diaries Berry, for many years postmaster at Onehunga. He spent the earlier part of his life in Auckland, and then removed to New Plymouth, wbcre he has been in business in a Urge way for almost a generation Seeing that Smith, Berry and Co, claim to have spent something like £50,000 in their efforts to establish the iron and steel industry, they arc entitled to look for a substantial return for their money.