PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 October 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Tiev. Gibson Smith, of Wellington, has' heen nominated by the presbytery of Hawke's Bay, as Moderator of the (leneral Assembly of th« Prcsbyterrau Church.—Press Association. At Tiolokare. on Thursday evening. Mr, Harold Thomas, who is leaving for the front, was entertained nt a social, and presented with a gold wristlet watch; arid also received front the school pupih a gold medal. 'lho Rev. 11. \V. Dent, of Eltliam, ha* received word of the death of . his brother, Mr. Austen Campbell Dent, I'i.A.M.C., on duly -20 th, from wounds re. eeived at, (lallipoli. Private Lionel (Pennington has been discharged Irom hospital in England on the 24th of last, month, and has reported himself- at headquarters. Mi. .Tesse l\ Redwqod has been gazetted registrar of births, deaths and marriage* for the district of \Ylmi)"amomona. Mr. 1,. E. Braitlnvaite ami Mr. Levy have been appointed ueputv-regisf rai's for the districts oi' Hastings and Woodville respectively. The death i.s reported of an old re id"iit of I'alinerston -Xorth in the person oi Mr. Thomas Parkins. He wont to that district; about thirty-live vears ago and settled on Milson's lije, later opening a butchery in the Square, whirh carried on successfully for i. number of years, retiring some time ago. The deceased wate seventy-two vearg of age. He leaves a widow and one daughter.