PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 164, 28 November 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. J T. Quinn was yesterday reelected Chairman of the Eitliam County Council. ■ Mrs. William Derrett, late of Whenuakura, near Pa tea, died in Auckland on Monday last. Mr. W. Hathaway was yesterday reelected Chairman of the Stratford County Council. Mi. Harold Beauelianip has been appointed a director of the Bank of New Zealand, in place of Mr. J. 13. R e id, who has resigned. Although the health of Mr. J. W. Poynton, Secretary to the Treasury, has been very unsatisfactory for some time, Mr. Poynton assured a member of the limes staff that he had not handed ill his resignation to the Minister of Finance. It is just a question whether I cany °">, ' le remarked. "The doctors say I will have to ease off for a time and give up work." a fo " owil, n have been a ppointed Civil Service Commissioners under the Act passed last session:—Messrs. Donald Robertson, 1.5.0., secretary to the Post Office (Chief Commissioner); Robert Triggs, for many years in the New Zealand Railways Department and now chief accountant in the Postmaster-Ceneva! Department of the Australian Commonwealth and A. D. Thomson, ML. at Palmeraton North.

The death is announced by cable from Melbourne of Sir Matthew Henry Davies an ex-Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. The deceased was born at Geelong sixty-two years ago. He was educated for the law'and admitted a solicitor in 187. 1 ). He was Mayor of Prahan in the '80'«?. He entered' Parliament in 1883, was Minister without portfolio from ISSfi to ISB7. and Speaker from 1887 to 1892, when he retired. Sir Matthew pre scnted £IO,OOO to public institutions in commemoration of Queen Victoria's jubii-o reign (1887).