PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 267, 21 April 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. P. Rollett, agricultural editor of tlie Auckland Weekly News, is on a visit to Taranaki, and is staying in New Plymouth for a day or two. Mr. M. Franklin, one of the oldest of Manaia'g residents has decided to take up his permanent residence In Auckland.

Mr. L. W. Alexander, formerly chairman of directors of the Inglewood Oil and Prospecting Company, and prominent in Taranaki oil circles a few years ago, is on a visit to New Plymouth. At the New (Plymouth Fire Brigade annual re-union last night, Custodian' Doughty was presented by Superintendent Bellringer with a two years'" service bar, marking seven years' service in the brigade.

Word has been received in Eltham that Mr. A. O'Neil, a reservist, who left for the front during the early stages of the war, has been seriously wounded, and lies in a French hospital His wife Tesides in Eltham.

Mr. and Mrs. James Gavey, of Ball street, Wanganui, celebrated their golden wedding on Tuesday of last week. They came to New Zealand from Guernsey, settling in Wanganui in 1874, and with the exception of seven years have resided there ever since.

Miss Ethel Mary Lewis (Otaki), ft New Zealand-trained nurse, is proceeding to Servia with a party on an English transport (says a .Home writer). Miss Lewis was Home on six months* leave, and she hag now obtained six months' extension.

Dr. J. A. Cowic and Dr.' Helen Cowic, of Masterton, arc leaving in the course of a few days on a visit to England. They will be absent until the end ot the year. They will probably offer their services to the Imperial authorities on their arrival in England. A London cablegram reports that Baron Herbert de Beuter, managing director of Reuter'a Telegram Company, owing to grief at his wife's sudden death, committed suicide with a revolver while her body wag awaiting interment. . Cabled advice has been received to the effect that Captain White-Parsons, .master of the R.M.S. Turakina, who was put ashore at Capetown suffering from appendicitis, is now convalescent. .Captain Curtis, chief officer of the Turakina, is navigating tho vessel to New Zealand.

Mr. D. Wyllie, the eminent New Plymouth surgeon, has been asked to form one of the staff of the stationary hospital which is being sent to the front by the New Zealand Government. He has acceded to the request, and expects to leave for the Beat of war in three or four weeks' time. His professional services will be greatly missed in this district.

At a meeting of delegates which was hold at Inglewood yesterday in connection with the establishment of co-operat-ive freezing works feeling reference was made to the bereavement that Mr. Marfell, one of the prime movers in the scheme, had sustained in the loss of his son, and a vote of sympathy wag Recorded him, the delegates standing in silenco.

The Napier High Sohool Board ot Governors has appointed Mr. C. S. Marshall, M.A., and Mr. C. V. Freyberg to the position of assistant masters on the staff. Mr. Marshall ig a Bowen and Hayden prizeman of the University of New Zealand, and has specialised in modern languages. Mr. Freyberg is, among other qualifications, excellent at school sports.

Mr. J. Heslop, while in Egypt, saw a number of Taranaki boys, and had long conversations with them. Among the number were: Messrs. 11. J. Barnard (Eltham), L. B. Grimstone (Eltharn), T. Avery (New Plymouth), Terry and Teddy Malone (Stratford), W. Gardiner (Riverlea), H. L. Spratt (TTavreru) and L. Theobald (Eltham). The above-mentioned send their kindest regards to their many friends in Taranaki.—Argus. There passed away at Wellington on Monday week one of the very early pioneers of Akaroa, in the person of Mrs. Wascoc (nee liaylock), at the old age of A3 years. With her first husband, Chiirles Lagden Haylock, she arrived in Akaroa in the barque Monarch in the year 1880, ten months prior to the first four emigrant ships reaching Port Lyttelton. Her husband at that time set to work, and under conditions which few would now realise, ereoted the first flour mill in Canterbury. This was situated in Grehan Valley, Akaroa, which took its name from the mill.