PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 18, 9 June 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

'•fr V. Carbitie-i, the musical director »f the Theatre Royal Pictures, lia\cs -lor I.lat and returns Oil Eriday. Miss Kathie Bennett will have clwrgo of the minio during his absence.

Mr Alan G'ood (writes the liithaw correspondent of Mic Wtar) has been appointed valuer on behalf of the natives in the valuations of tile West Coast leases. Mr J. T. Quin is valuer for the lessees. They will commence valuing shortly.

The Town Clerk of New Plymouth (Mr F. T. Bell ringer) will be a delegate to the Municipal Conference at Wellington, on July 14. Mr George Hooker, w'lw has for the pa>-t three years been employed as a&- .. sislant-draugbtsiuan to tihe New Plymouth Borough Council, has resigned his position to itake up that of assistantengineer of the Napier County Council. The electrical engineer 'to the New 'Plymouth Borough Council (Mr lfrjjk Black) will a.uend a conference of oipal electrical engineers and otiherii, lor be held in Chiiistehiiroh On June 17witli a view to drawing up uniform by- . laws regarding electrical supply.

The news received at Uruti last week from a niece of Mr Con O'Sullivan that . i lu'i'p was no hope of saving his eye, \*A received with genuine regret. It will be remembered that Mr Con O'Sullivan went to Dunedin a few months ago to consult Dr. Ferguson, eye specialist. . After two operations, it was found that ' the case was hopeless. Mr O'Sullivan, about sixteen years ago, when engaged, in a ronll contract near Uruti, met with an accident owing to an explosion of powder which ruined the sight of the right eye, Lately, the remaining one was. troubling him, and the result is aa stated above. Mr O'Sullivan was'a useful settler, being a member of the Clifton Countv Council for a long number of years, and in any forward movement for the advancement of the back coun- , try of Taranaki he was ever prominent.' .