PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 October 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. Cecil Leys, associate editor of the Auckland Star, has volunteered for active service. He lieb been accepted as a member of the Automobile Corps. Mr. H. P. Woodward, manager of the Greyraoiith branch of the Bank of New Zealand, is about to retire on superannuation. He will be succeeded by Mr. Bevan, of Thames, A London cablegram reports the death of Sir Andrew Noble, an authority on explosives, who was a partner of the firm of Armstrongs at Newcastle-on-Tyne. Sir Andrew was 83 years of age.

A Gisborne telegram states that Private Edgar .Jones, son of Judge Jones, of the Xative Land Court, who enlisted in England, lias been dangerously wounded in France.

The Rev. F. T. Bead, Methodist minister at Duimdin, has been appbint»4 chaplain of the hospital ship Margins,, representing the Methodist, Presbyterian. Baptist and Congregational . churches.

Constable Brown, who has been stationed in Xew Plymouth for some years, and has been transferred to the South Tshind, was entertained by a few personal friends on Thursday, and presented with a gold-mounted fountain pen as a mark of their esteem.

By the death of Mr. William Soltan Phillans, of Myres, huh Clutha, Otago has lost one of her pioneers in connection with the opening up of the Otago district., The late Mr. Phillans wu« a very chre friend of the lion. Thomas Mackenzie, lli;:h Commissioner, and with him (it is believed), was responsible for the opening up of a track through the Clinton Valley, which enabled a good deal of the Catlins district to.be opened up for closer settlement. In addition to this Mr. Phillans was responsible for a good deal of the work in connection with the opening of the West Coast Sounds. After the sale of his Manuka Islands station lie went Home for a trip, and on returning to Xew Zealand settled in Gisborne, where he died a few ,Ht« ago. ,