PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 238, 13 February 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. J. C. Campbell, manager of the Bank of New South Wales at Wanganui, and Mrs. Campbell, left on Thursday for a nine months' tour abroad. Sergeant lladdrell ha* applied for leave to make a trip to England, and if leave is granted lie will probably leave in April, accompanied by Mrs. and Miss Haddrell. Messrs. G. V. Tate and A. J. Hoskin have been appointed judges at. the forthcoming Cambridge show. The former will judge the draught horses and Die latter Shorthorn cattle. Ilis Worship the Mayor (Mr. C. Ti.sch) has been appointed to represent the New Plymouth Borough Council on the advisory committee, to be set up in connection with the Technical School. Vienna reports the death of Mr. Alfred Charles de Rothschild, C.V.0.. Hungarian Consul-Gencral, second son of the late Baron and Baroness Lionel de Rothschild. He was for some years a director of the Bank of England.

Mr. George Bollinger, of the Xew Plymouth stuff of the Dank of New South Wales, has received notice of transfer to Cambridge. His place here will be filled by Mr. A. J. M. Finson, at present of the bank's tiisborue staff.

Mr. C. S. Nixon. Collector of Customs at Wellington, lias not been in good health for some considerable time past, and has been ordered by his medical adviser to take a complete rest from office work for three months. It is Mr. Xixon's intention to leave Wellington on February 17 for Sydney and Melbourne. The death occurred at Ashburton shortly after midnigiit on Saturday of Herbert Henry Fooks, li.A.. who for the past ten years acted in tile dual capacity of town clerk and engineer to the Ashburton Borough Council, at the age of 41 years. Deceased for over eighteen years acted as assistant-town clerk, lie was one of the first pupils at the district high .school, and the first graduate at the Canterbury College from the school. Press telegram.

One of the oldest and best known settlers on the Plains. Mr. W. T. Wells, will leave ill the course of a few days for Auckland, where he intends for the future to live. It is over thirty years since lie settled near Manaia, and. save for a trip to the Old Country, he lias rarely been away since be came to the district, lie and Mrs. Wells experienced the vicissitules of colonial fanning in those unsettled days, and now in the autumn of life are seeking a change to a more genial clime.—llawera Star.