PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 262, 15 April 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. Geo. Grey returned last nirirfl from a pleasant holiday of six weeks spent in Sydney. " Dr. G. N. MacDiarmid, of Christ* church Hospital, is visiting Us peopk at New Plymouth. ' Mr. Kattanacb, second member of the Australian Water. Supply Commiw sion has been appointed to succeed Mr, Elwood Mead. „ Mr. Stanley W. Cherry, representing the Phmmer-Hall Patriotic Tour, was ii town yesterday making arrangements lor the company's local appearance next week. £J f « F f U ' g° ner al manager ol tfc« A.W.H. Milking Machine Co., armed by last night's express, having spent the last two or three months ffl Australia. Mr. Prank Ashbolt, one of the fines* slow howlers in representative cricket in New Zealand, and a year or two ago one of tiie best of hockey players is ; leaving New Zealand with' the' Fourth Reinforcements. Adjutant and Mrs. Home will leave hr. the express this morning for Wellington' to take part in the Salvation Army Con* Kress meetings, when all the officers from all over New Zealand will be present. ' Mr. (i. V. Pcaice, M.P. for Patea, pail a visit to the Ashhurton County last week and was the guest of Mr, W Noaworthy, M.P., .and Mrs. Nosworthv. He visited the back country and also the Jypngbeach Kstate. and* at the latter place was entertained bv M. and Mr*. John Gngg. A Sydney cablegram reports the death of James Johnson the sole survivor of the wreck of the Dunbar. The flipper Dunbar was wrecked on the rocks near Sydney on August 20, 1857. One hundred and twenty-one lives were 1 lost, and Johnson was saved, after be* nig on the rocks for thirty hours. At the Central School' during the March quarter 254 pupils made a full attendance, the percentage in each class of those who were never absent being», as follows:—Standard 0, 01 per cent.; Standard 5, 41 per cent.; Standard 4, 54 per cent.; Standard 3, 02 per cent; 1 Standard 2. 50 per cent.; Standard L 48 per cent.; Infants, 30 per cent. Dr. J. S. Dockrill, con of Mr. and Mrs. K. Dockrill, of New Plymouth, who some time ago volunteered for active service, lias been attached to the Will Regiment, which forms part of the Hh Division of Lord Kitchener's New Army. This it is understood will be ane of the first divisions to cross t8 I'Vance when the new army is moved. Mr, George Lamb, a very old resident of the Ashhurton district, "died last Friday. He was horn in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, in 1843, and camo to New Zealand in ISfifl, and was engaged in farming in the Ashhurton district for over forty years. Tie retired about six j'cars ago, and bad been in ill-health for wine considerable time prior to hi* :leath. He left a family of nine song tnd three daughters.