PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 November 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

| Mr. L Keith, manager of the Tar*« naki oilfields, who has been indisposed for some time, left for Auckland last night on a holiday trip. Sergt-Major Howard Seldon, who returned to New Zealand on the Willoehra, is expected at New Plymouth during the next day or two. Sergt.-Major Seldon is rapidly improving in health. Second-Lieutenant R. H, Quilliam, oi New Plymouth, has been posted to 0 Company of the Ninth Reinforcements, and has been transferred from Tren* tham to Tauherenikau. \ ' His Majesty the King has been pleased ito approve of the retention of the title "Honourable" for life by Mr. Robert Heaton Rhodes, who has served for , more than three years as a member of the Executive Council of New Zealand. In a letter to a Christchurch friend, Mr. Noel Ross, a son of the New Zealand war correspondent, states that ha is now a lieutenant in tho Royal Artillery, and at the time, of writing was about to join the staff of the No. 3 Artillery Training School at Kettering, Hants. i Mr. James Webster, a very old settler of the Cust district, North Canterbury, is dead. Included in his family are Miss Bessie Webster, who for years has been engaged in missionary work in China, aud Mr. A. Webster, who was recently appointed inspector for tho Bank of Australasia for the Commonwealth. Mr. H. J, Lowe, who has been chieidraughtsman in the local Survey Office for the last four y£ars, has received notice of his promotion to a similar position in the Auckland office, and will leave New Plymouth shortly to take up his new duties. Mr. Lowe will be succeeded by Mr. F. Carrington, who has been acting chief draughtsman for some months at the Napier office. A visit will be paid .to New Zealanu neat February by Archbishop Bonaventure Ccretti, Apostolic delegate in Australasia. He will be accompanied by his private seeratary, Dr. Ormond. They will travel from Melbourne to Wellington, and will make a tour of the South and North Wands, sailing from Auckland for Sydney at the conclusion of the tour. Mr. H. R. Day, of the Hawera Post and Telegraph Office, left for the camp at Tauherenikau yesterday morning. On Thursday eveninf'the Postmaster, on behalf of the local staff, presented him with a wristlet watch, and in doing so expressed regret at his departure. Mr. Day, in an appropriate speech, thanked i his eo-workers for their kind and thoughtful appreciation. Maida Hooker, 4aughter of Mr, L, 0. Hooker, of Hawera, who has been studying at the Sacred Heart Convent, Timaru, for the past two years, has just secured the L.A.B. degree in connection with the Royal Academy, London, She gained 103 marks out of a maximum of 200. She has been a pupil of Mrs. Mangos, who is the leading teacher of music at the Convent. Lieut. F E. Beamish, of the Post ana Telegraph Corps, was successful in passing in every subject in the recent military examination for promotion. Lieut. Beamish served n the Boer war as a member of the Sixth Contingent, joinin® as private and afterwards working his way up the ladder until he gained a commission. Lieut. Beamish, who is a son of Mr. J G. Beamish, of Pa tea. will says the Press, probably proceed to the front shortly. Lieut.-Colonel F. T Bellringer, of New Plymouth, has been appointed commandant at the Rangiotu military camp, near t Palmerston North, from next February till May. At a meeting of the executive committee of the Borough Council yesterday Lieut,-Colonel Bellrhiger intimated that he had received this appointment, and lie aslced to be temporarily relieved of the position nt tow® clerk. Leave was granted, and Lieut.Colonel Bellringer was instructed to submit a report relative to filling the position of town clerk, Leint.-Colonel Bellringer has been prominently associated with military matters in New Plymouth for many years, ami he was recently gazetted to command the lltli (Tuvanaki) Regiment in succession to the late Lieut.-Colonel Malone, killed in action. Mr. J. 11. Hammond, manager of the Cambridge branch of the Bank of New Zealand, has been appointed l to succeed Mr. E. F Blundell, who retires from (he managership of the New Plymouth branch at the end of the yeai. Mr. Hammond will arrive in New Plymouth about tlie middle of next month. Referring to Mr. Hammond's appointment the Waikato Independent says: "While congratulating Mr. Hammond on his well-deserved .and important advancement, we are expressing the feelings of the whole of the Central Waikato commercial community, and a very wide circle of friends, when we say thai his loss will be Taranaki's gain. Since his arrival here about ten years ago Mr. Hammond has been in the forefront of all movements for the advancement of the town and has loyally assisted with brains and money in helping the needy. His removal from Cambridge will be a distinct lomm, and we only hope that his successor will prove as useful. Mrs. Hnmmond, also, has been an energetie worker in every worthy cause, and her many friends will much regret her departure-''