PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 December 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr. W. J. Guerin, of the Evening Post, Wellington, a journalist well-known in Taraiiaki, is at present spending a holiday in Opunake. Mr. Newton King Ims received a letter from his son Eliot, who is ill the Flying Corps at Home, saying that he "lias gained his pilot's certificate and was expecting to leave for the front almost immediately. Mr. Geo. Loveridge, the well-known Tukapa player, who has represented Taranaki fpr several seasons, and also represented New Zealand in Australia, and California, has been selected as ft field telegraphist, and will be attached to the 12th Reinforcements. Mr. A. Sandilands, chief engineer at the electric power house at New Plymouth, has resigned his position, as he has been appointed engineer at the Tokoma.ru Bay freezing works. Mr. H. Malt, the assistant engineer, will act as chief engineer temporarily. Major Fletcher, who left New Plymouth with the Fifth Reinforcement#, has arrived in England, having been invalided there owing to an attack of fever. Mr. R. Day, of Dunedin, has been appointed sanitary inspector and building superintendent for the borough of New Plymouth. There were 46 applications for the position. Mr. Day has been inspector of nuisanoes and theatres at Dunedin for the past three years, and ho has been sanitary inspector for the northern half of that town. Sir Edward Gibbes, Secretary for Education, will retire at the end of March and will have three months' leave ol absence before going on superannuation. Sir Edward was born in 1830, is the son of the late Sir Samuel Osborne-Gibbefc, and is the third baronet since the creation of the title in 1774. He joined the Government service in Wellington m 1871.