PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 48, 15 July 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL.

—^» Mr. Charles Zachariah, district manager and reserves agent for the Public Trustee in Taranaki, hasi received notice of his promotion to Wellington as district manager of the Wellington branch of the Public Trust .Office. Mr. E. Barnes, of Wanganui, succeeds Mr. Zachariah in Taranaki. The Rev. Cecil John Wood was consecrated as fourth Bishop of Melanesia in St. Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin, yesterday morning, by the Primate, Bishop Nevilio. Bishop Sprott (Wellington) and Bishop Crossley (Auckland) assisted the Primate. The consecration sermon was preached by Dean Fitchett, and there was a full musical service. The church was crowded.

Mr. Robert Perrett, a resident of Wellington for 37 years, died there last week. He was born in Earl Stoke, Devonshire, on July 24, 1835, and when 40 vears of age came to the colony in the ship Star of India. He engaged in brickmaking in Wellington, and supplied most of the bricks for the tunnels on the Wel-lington-Paekakariki railway line. He leaves one daughter and five sons. Mr. F. C. Hay, assistant engineer to the Public Works Department, has been appointed to take charge of the projected irrigation works in Central Otago. Climatic conditions will prevent Mr. Hay entering upon his new duties immediately, and in the meantime 'he is to do a little survey work for the Department in North Canterbury. Mr. Hay has just returned to New Zealand from a year's tour of the world. Formerly he was employed as an assistant to Mr. Holmes (Engineer-in-Chief).

The ranks of Marlborough's pioneers are being gradually depleted, and the death of Mrs. Neal, at Koromiko, last week, removes from the district an old identity (says the Express). Mrs. Neal was born in Wales in 1839, and was therefore at the time of her death 73 years of age. She came to New Zealand in the sailing ship Sir Charles Forbes in 1842, and after residing at Picton for a long time, she went to Koromiko, where she residded until the time of her death. With the demise of Mrs. Neal one link in the chain of five generations is broken, the oldest being Mrs. Neal's mother, who now .resides at Koromiko, at the advanced age of 97. Among the victims wlio perished in the recent terrible tornado at Regina, Canada, was a very promising young New Zealander, Mr. George Bailey Craven, third son of Mr. R. B. Craven, of ,Pnnkhurst, Helensville. News of the sad event has (says the Star) just been cabled over by Mr. Wilson, Dairy Commissioner for the Regina district. Deceased was born at Helensville, and for some time was associated with the Northern Wairoa. He left here some four years ago to attend the Agricultural College in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and was successful in passing several examinations. He made great strides in his calling of engineer' and at the time he met his death in the tornado was superintending the erection of some new machinery for a large butter factory. Deceased was only twenty-eight years of age. His people, who arc well known and much respected in the Kaipara district, were expecting him home during the year.