PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 127, 20 November 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

It is understood that Sir Joseph Ward, who is to spend the night of November 27 at Inglewood, will be entertained at a banquet.

Mr. James Taylor Mackerras, a wellknown Dunedin merchant and ex-chair-man of the Otago Harbor Board, died on Friday morning, aged 85.

The Moa Road Board on Saturday passed a vote of sympathy with the widow and family of the late Mr. Geo. Turner, who was for 13 years a member of the Road Board, retiring some five years ago.

It is stated that Dr. Maclagan, who for some years was in practice at Kaponga and is now residing in England, has decided to relinquish his medical career and enter the Anglican ministry, and lie will study for ordination in England, and proposes to return to New Zealand to take up work in the Wellington diocese. The doctor has always been an earnest church worker, and gradually the conviction has forced itself upon him that it is his duty to make the pecuniary sacrifice of giving up his profession, l't is worthy of remark that his great uncle, the late ArchbSshop of York, took a similar course, <ft>r he had achieved a position in the army, which he abandoned to enter the Christian ministry.—Hawera Star.