PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 229, 6 March 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL

Sir. J. B. Iline, M.P., was in town yesterday. iMr. J. Austin, manager of the Sash' and Door Company, lias left for Sydney, where lie will spend a month. Mr. John Holmes, of Bell Block, for very many years a foreman of the laranaki County Council, died in the, New Plymouth Hospital yesterday. ■ A Dunedin telegram slates that the Minister of Finance announces that Mr. " •. Recce, of Christchurch, ha 3 been appointed director of the Bank of New Zealand, as successor to the late Hon. Mr. Fergus.» The death took place at Gordon Road, Toko, on February 26, of Mr. ißobert Mumby, an old and respected settler, at the age of 76 years. Tlie Rev. J, L. Dove, late headmaster of Wanganui Oollopiate School, and formei ly vicar of Huntervilhi. Mir- been appointed to the living of North Crawley, Bucks, in tho Oxford diocese. Dr. J. J. Grimes, Roman Catholic Bcshop of Christchurch, who is convalescent after a severe illness, left Wellington last week to spend a holiday in Australia. He was accompanied by the Very Rev. Father Price, t

Dr. G. Gore Gillon, F.R.C.S., Auckland, left by the 'Ma'kura for London, where he intends offering himself for active service with the British army. Dr. Gillon lia3 been a member of the Auckland 'Hospital honorary staff for nine years. Dr. McNab, who was reported as having been shot while attending to the wounded at the front, has now written to friends in London stating that be is a prisoner in Germany./>Jt was evidentlv a case of mistaken identity, of which there have been quite a number.

A young New Zealander, who has been doing splendid work for the Red Cross Motor Ambulance Volunteer Corps for tlie past three months is Dr. Hector Munro, of Palmerston North, a grandson of the late Sir James Hector. Equipped by Lady Dorothy Feilding, who is herself serving in it as a hospital nurse, this corps has several times been mentioned in praiseworthy terms. Dr. Hector Munro arrived in England from New Zealand early in October last.

At the annual meeting of the Newspaper Proprietors' Association, at Timaru, yesterday, Mr. P. Selig was unanimously re-elected president. Other officers were elected as follow:—Vicepresident, Mr. F. E. Hyman; committee, Messrs. L. BlnndeTt, George Femvick, F. Pirani, E. Abbey, Jones, H. Horton; awards committee, the president and Messrs. R. B. Bell, H. Horton, F. E. Hyman, F. Pirani, and W. C. Weston; hon. auditor, Mr. E. G. Kerr; secretary and treasurer, Mr L. J. Berry.

Mr George Brown, a well known Maori interpreter, died in the Auckland Hospital on Monday night as the result of injuries received from a fall last Friday. He had just left the Supremo Court, and was walking along Waterloo Quadrant, when he had the misfortune to fall, sustaining a concussion of the brain. Mr Brown, who was connected with-the Department of Native Affairs, was universally regarded in the court* as a most gifted interpreter, the precise accuracy of his interpretation being 110 less remarkable than the beauty of the language in which he clothed it.

Amongst the passengers by the Tofua, which arrived at Sydney from the islands last week, were the. Rev Churchward and Mrs Churchward, who have been stationed at Lufi Lufi, in the Solomons Uroup, conducting missionary work oil behalf of the Methodist Foreign Mission. Mr. Churchward, who expects to take up mission work in Victoria, has relinquished service, in the islands. Speaking of the progress of the mission, he Z prpscnt tllerc were b °W• Methodist adherents in the islands. At Lufi IjuA the mission was now firmly established, while they had about 50 native teachers in the mission traininocollege Altogether there were about 100 native teachers scattered throughout the Solomons.

J)r Hardwiek Smith, retiring medical superintendent to the Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, was on Monday the recipient erf a silver inkstand and pen-rest from the staffs of the Board. The presentation was made bv the secretary (Mr J. Coyle), who said tii.it for the past six years over 700 meetings of various committees of the board had been held, at which J)r HardMick Smith attended, and in his first year there were 136 meetings, 08 of n" wT rc lat n f ht tu "°' at whidl J)i Smith was present. At these mcet- .">*» he never lost an opportunity to ! endeavor to ameliorate the- conditions under which the staff worked. The nursing staff had been increased bv 37 nor cent., viz., from 7S to 102. The salaries pel month during six years had been increased, too, from £202 to £379 for last I o vitU, ftn increase of 87 per cent.