PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 291, 12 May 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. Arthur Cleave, of Auckland, is Int town.

His Worship the Mayor is making very satisfactory progress towards recovery.' Mr H. L. Friend, chairman of the Soltar Company, Auckland, was in NewPlymouth yesterday. The death has taken plflce in London of Mr William Alexander Smith, founder of the Boys' Brigade. The death i s recorded of a very old . Wanganm resident in the person of" Mrs. Ann Kelly, aged 80 years. Tl M . r ' ??% McLeod, chairman 'of the ™aki Rugby ""ion. loaves fdr WeiInngton by the mail train this morning to attend the annual meeting of thi New Zealand Rugby Union. « M ,' McVay died at Napier oil £l. £ Ma y°j;al chair, was presidents of the Napier Park Racing CluTb, end a member of the Racing Commission. At last night's meeting of the Borough Council, Cr. A. h. Sykes, who is making a business trip to Australia, was granted six weeks' leave- of absence and Cr. Maunder four weeks' leave. ' News has been received in Dunedin of the death of the Rev. C. H. Bradbury Congregational minister, formerly of Linwood (Christchurch), Wellingtom and Dunedin. He had charge of the-Milton Congregational Church at Brisbane, but died • Melbourne. ' ' , s Mr. F. S. Candy, who for 24 years has been manager of the Canterbury Meat Company's freezing works at Pareora has been appointed manager ofl th«* Hawke's Bay Fanners' Meat Company's freezing works, now in course of erection at Whakatu.

Mr. Walsh, so long and favorably known as the proprietor of the accommodation house at Awakino, has disposed of his interests to Mr! Morton, At " the Awakino Hall on Thursday night last a social to Mr. and Mrs'. Walsh was tendered by the residents, and was largely attended. . At the annual meeting of the Ncj9 Plymouth Harbor Board yesterday, Mot J. B. Connett was unanimously re-elect-ed chairman for the ensuing year. In' thanking the board for this, expression' of its continued confidence, Mr Connett congratulated the members on ithc fact that they had all been re-elected without opposition.

Mr. G. Macmorran, headmaster of th« Terrace School, Wellington, has just completed thirty years' service at that school. Replying to a v\>te of thanks passed by householders tl*e other evening, Mr. Macmorran said that during his thirty, years' experience with the school "some of the. finest boys and girls" he had known had pasaed through his hands.

The death is reported of Mr. George Hampton Rhodes, formerly of Claremont, Timaru, after a long illness. Mr. Rhodes was the fourth son of the lat» Mr. George Rhodes, of the Levels Station, and Mr. Arthur E. >G. Rhodes, of Christchurch, and Mr. R. H. Rhodes, of Bluccliffs, are brothers of the deceased gentleman, whilst the Hon. R. Ileaton Rhodt's, Post master-General, and Mr. (i. E. Rhodes are cousins.

Mr. John Bollard, M.P. for Eden, who was last week elected chairman of the Avondale School Committee for the fiftythird time, is the Grand Old Man of school committeemen of the Dominion, if ■ not of the world. The Burly Bollard - —at one time known as "Dick" Seddon's a double" —has represented Eden in J'ariia- 8 nic-nt since 18BG, defeating Judge .lackson, * Palmer. The heavyweight of the. House has been in New Zealand 54 years,' served in the Maori war, and is 75 years of age. His son sits in the House for Raglan.