PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 February 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. W. A. Co His has been reappointed Uie Borough Council's representative on the Egmont National Park Board. Rev. A. B. Chappell left yesterday morning fer Auckland to attend the annual Methodist Conference, which commences there on Thursday morning;. A Pertli message announces the death of Sir J. W. Hackett, M.L.C., anil-pro. prietor and editor of the West Australian and Western Mail. Misß Grace Warner, of Stratford, ha» been appointed ,to the teaching staff at Gisborne East School, under the llawke'a Bay Education Board. A notable figure in the Maori community, Hori Te Pmii, died on Monday week at Petone. Mr. Te Puni, who Iml been in ill-health for some time. vi\\* "i years of age, and was the son of llemi ■ and Rangiwhia Te Puni, He belonged ithe Ngatiawa tribe, and was born if. Tai'annki, afterwards migrating, on fooi, with his parents, to Petone. His grand, father, Honlana Te Puni, was a former chief v of Pito-one, who welcomed \\\t Europeans to the Wellington district, A very old Taranaki settler in the person of Mrs. F. A. Leatham '(wnjow of the late Mr. Henry Leatham and mother of Dr. Leatham) died at New Plymouth yesterday. The deceased lady arrived in New Zealand with her j father (the late Mr. John Newlandl and his family, from in the ship Amelia Thompson in IS>. With,-Hie exception of a short term spent in Xelwu, a* a refugee from the Natives in Tara-. naki, deceased had lived practically the whole of her life in New Plymouth, To within a few hours of her death noi>*a«i..| retained her full faculties, despite her 88 years. Like all the old settler* of Taranaki she bore all the hardship< nn.l privations of the early pioneering day*. Mr. John Mackay, the Government Printer, who is about to retire after twenty years association with the (Juvernment Printing Office, is familiar t» most people in connection with pilh!'<documents. He came to New Zealand in 1860, and served his apprenticeship to the printing trade in the office of the Bruce Herald. He \va s employed on the staff of the Dunodin Star when he was selected to take control of the Government Printing Office in 1890. The office was situated in a small building facing Bunny street. The present building was at the time in course of construction, and it was occupied a little later. The details of Mr. Maokay's offi. cial career since that date aro in substance the details of the cf the Printing Office. At the time he tpo!: over the office there were 21" employees under him, and to-day there trc Cii. The annual gross expenditure at that (late was £40,391: and at March 31 of last year it was £123,000 for tUo tv/elvo months.