PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 173, 20 January 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Miss Rosina Buckman is expected to arrive from Auckland .by the Rarawa on Monday moriing. Dr. Blackley, who has been on a holiday trip to Auckland and Rotorua, returned to New Plymouth last night.

Mr. J. D. Henry, the British 6il expert, arrived from the north by the Rarawa yesterday morning, accompanied by Mr. H. J. Brown, chairman of the British Oil Trust, Ltd. Mr. A. A. Paape, Dominion organising secretary to the Sports Protection League, who has been on a visit to New Plymouth, leaves for Wellington by this morning's mail train. Mr. D. S. Wyllie, New Plymouth, late surgeon South African Field Force, has been appointed captain of the N.Z. Medical Corps. Sergeant Harold Arnold has been promoted to the rank of second lieutenant in the 11th Regiment (Taranaki Rifles). Lieutenants W. H. Beadle and A. Marett (New Plymouth), and H. Thompson (Inglewood) have resigned their commissions.

Mr. T. Ronayne (general manager of railways), accompanied by Mr. H. Buxton (chief traffic manager), Mr. J. Bennett (chief engineer), Mr. A. Beattie (chief mechanical engineer), Mr. J. E. Armstrong (district traffic manager) and Mr. F. J. Jones (district traffic manager), arrived in New Plymouth yesterday by special train. They visited the Breakwater and the oil fields, and will go south again this morning. The death of Mr. William Collingwood, sen., of Palmerston North, occurred at his residence, Church street East, early on Thursday morning. The late Mr. Collingwood, who was eighty years of age, had been an invalid for about two years. Previous to his arrival there he resided at Wanganui for about twentyfive years, having settled there in 1880, when he and his family came out from England. The sons are Messrs. W. H. Collingwood (town clerk, Palmerston North) and J. Collingwood (Feilding). Captain G. Holford, who was yesterday appointed harbormaster for New Plymouth, is a native of this town, and son of Captain J. H. 'Holford, who was the first harbormaster here after the breakwater was built. He has been at sea for 23 years—l2 years with the New Zealand Shipping Company, and 11 years with the Union Shipping Company. He has had command of nineteen steamers, and for the past 2% years has been trading between Onehunga, New Plymouth and Wellington. He is a man of ability and thought, arid has devoted some time to patents A for rafts for lifesaving in case of a wreck. The death of Mr. Kenneth Mclvor, at "Flowerburn," Turakina, removes one of New Zealand's oldest settlers, and an old resident of Rangitikei. He arrived in the colony sixty-two years ago, and after ten years' residence in the Porirua district, came with his brothers Mr. James Mclvor, who predeceased him about twenty years ago, and Mr. Daniel Mclvor, who died five years ago—and settled on "Flowerburn," near Turakina, where he carried on sheep-fanning.. He was a native of Caithness, Scotland. Deceased had a paralytic stroke when in Marton about two years ago, and had been in a weak state ever since.