PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 64, 4 August 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

■ -T" At yesterday's meeting of the TM naki County Council 1 , Cr. Billing wi re-elected to represent the council fl the Technical College advisory boar for tlite ensuing year. An Ottawa cablegram etateß that D C. G. Eredman, principal of the Q tario Agricultural' College, is en ron to New Zealand and Australia, his 0 ject being to discover why New Zealai is gaining such headway in the butt* and cheese trade. Dr. W. R. Parkinson, son of Mr. V A. Parkinson, of Hawera, who has 'bee for some time in Nigeria. {West Africa has just been appointed Resident Med cal Officer at the Lagos Hospital,-co sidered to be the beat surgical appoin ment on the West Coast. At the ho pital there are nineteen beds for Eiih pcans and eighty for natives, and the are generally all occupied. The b<M pital is excellently equipped with a fit operating theatre, clinical laborator good X-ray apparatus, and most of ft latest improvements which electricit can in nice useful. On most days thei are several operations. There are fot Huropean iiiiniiiii; sisters, and a larj stall' of native in'rses, and also one m tive (lector. Writing of the town, D Parkinson says: "We have many of tl comforts of (utilisation. tlhe greatest < them. I think, being the electric ligh Lagos is only fifteen days' steam fro) London, whereas my last station wt up the Cross river, takiifg nearly month. Lagos is at present tlio hei( quarters for Nigeria and we have tl Governor and all th« heads of the di partments living here."—Star.