PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 190, 20 January 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

-Mr Jan. tL William*, well known in

slii-ppin:'; circle . ami 1 <jiincrly owner o' ilv iJa.i'V ilay •••ilntc, dieu yesterday iu Wellington.

Air T. liaric (iilcs, Conciliation Coiii-lllis-ioilr'.', i- in Xcvt .Plymouth. Ho will he engaged today in 'hearing 1 the paintera' ami tlmn-itoW dispute.

. (!;it oi nine applicants, Dr Ifoole, oi Tlmmer., \vu.. last night appointed niedieal Mlperiiitemleiit of tile Wesipeit trict iius!i.;al. I'ress Association,

!.)r T. 11. A. \ a'intine, Chief -Health (juicer, due to reach Auckland in '"""II ■' i<« • !'.!(rht';i time 011 his return irij) f"oiu KnsSaad.

Aiaii.ir \\ • '■< Austin, inspector oi :.-i-hoois at ' 'i'eymouth, has received leave 01 absence. and will go -into camp at Trentharn to Kim the reinforcements for iho front.

'I'll" death is reported of Mr Kobert Gibson, hsr many years foreman carpenter the I'etone Hailway Workshops. >!c v.-jis sixty-live years o'.fl, and is sui-i- .eil 1). a widow, a son, and live

<ai.'.; : !i ;! Iline, M.P. f< r Stratford. H.i :t ..:emuer of the Reserve -on.- >• received ort'jte to re-p.-rt »t v\ tu.ffiiiu: for military duty and crneyi.l to 'v. aagariui by Monday ..lorning .-■ r.-.ai: train.

-Mr i - ■: V,''igtey, the ex-captain of the K>.»! -iii r'ootball Club, and Wairarapa 1 ~ : !••- ,v Zealand representative football'r. .-. iio has been playing tlu: League -n England during the past six years, aas joined the English expeditionary force.

A Pre u tel. gram from Tauranga reports the. death of Air John Harvis MeCaw, aged eight,)'. He had been a resident, of Tauranga for fifty years. He was a Maori war veteran and town 'clerk since tile establishment of the Bor--1 oug-li in 1882 till four years ago.

-Jr Hunter Booth, of Wellington, lias been appointed teller -at,, the Bank of New South Wales, Waverley, in place ol Mr Manners. Mr Booth is a son of the manager of the Bank of Australasia .in I'ausi. Mr Manners has joined the expeditionary force.

Mr. J. A. Hansen, secretary of the Taranaki Centre of the New Zealand Athletic Union, and a member of the 'New Zealand executive, leaves for Christclmrch this morning, to attend the annual conference of the New Zealand lAthletio Union.

Among the candidates • who have passed the 1"::" tie Service entrance examination appears the name of Lewis Godfrey Eyre, uf ■ Air. 'clan.l, but now of the Sinv Plymouth Hiph School. The lad. will) i ; ; tin' s:!ii of Mr Eyre. (Vikcior of Customs for New Ph-montl'. passed iw. l'th on the li- for New /inland, .1 very creditable nerformanee.'

Mr T. Mallett, v.'ho lias 'sir some time ' past conducted the Uruti and Kotari' Sioiv-s, has disposed of his business .to Mr MeAlluin, of New Plymouth. Mi" Ma lie it will probably go to tlift front from Mi'lbourne, where he joined the Second Victorian Contingent at the time ol tiie Boer \\ ar, and ivhile in Cape ('ohm \ a lot of active service, tra- '■'< i ie .' i i nitre from Cape. Town io 1)» I.l!_ , 1,1

_ Ci"i:;■■ m,;u -, ,1 ni:ue. who .distinguished hnn.-eit :t.i : Il:ini eonduet in earing for the voitnded during (lie defence of ■■ " "mi "i Mr •!. I''. Jardhie, of Lim-no: Coad. -,apier\ 11111! was eilueat"d ai ine .\iipier Boys' High School, and later at the Winiganni College. Ke v,as -'.-. it In hiighind to study medicine, and ai !,undon University, subsetieeiillv becoming house surgeon at the Noi l.nei n Hospital, Liverpool, a'post he held tor six montlis, leaving a month !>ei")',-> the war broke out to offer bis services to the Army.

'»>* 'arrived Itv cablegram ilnit....\ir K. (•'. id. Blow (son of Sir If. .1. Ik Wow. Under-Secretary for Public Works) Pes parsed his examination fur. t'»' <l.-. if Licentiate of the Eoval Aeadrm Ariis.it;, London. -Mr BJow, -who com; ' a three-years' course at the lloyai .demy of >[ns'ic in .Ueeem>'ei' lasi. ' s had a very successful at that institution. in •10!:) j, c «'»n the Academy bronze medal, and hi-n .'"ear capped this stress bv -a iiiiiintv the silver medal, the distinction awarded by the Academy. Mr Blow lei'fc London by the Medina on January l)'br Sydney, en ronio for jSTcw Zealand. )J ( . is due to arrive here liefore Ui ■ end of :r,- and m.-.r possibh dee;.!,.' to follow up his j>n,;'--s..;<in i>: fh : s couvitn . ill' I. t\ . \Va.iie. district trai'Jie nut;:aeer. Dnucdin, who has been appoint:': commercial aaer.t to 1 lie Railway he , parfment. is a native of York, England. He entered _the service of the NorthLastern Railway Company, and Was there for cijrht years, 'and passed through' various branches to the office the General Passenger fnineriiiteedent of tile line. Hp arrived at Lvt'cv l"'t i" 1879, and some two years later ente'v,| the railway department as clerk 'raffle department. For some years In: was chief clerk to tile Railway I 'oiiimissifiners. and on the Government ri-MMi'ns control, mi -Tamiarr Ist. ISM. J 1 :i- appointed ehief clerk to the Zealand Tiailway-;. | n |'M>l was mi. pointed traffic manayer at Auckland, and afterwards to a similar portion st Diinediii.