PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 May 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. Percy Bastings, of Invercargill, a returned trooper, has been appointed dispenser and 'house steward at the Now Plymouth Hospital, out of eight applicants.

Inspector Wilson, of tl>e Wangamii and Taranaki police district, a well-known and popular police officer, intends to retire shortly after forty years' service. Inspector Wilson will probably take up his residence in Auckland.

• Miss Muriel Berry, assistant in the Taranaki County Office, has tendered her resignation, having been appointed county clerk for the Oh urn. County Council, where sho begins her duties on the 25th inat.

At a meeting of the Taranaki Hospital and Charitable Aid Board yesterday, a vote of condolence was passed with Mr. D. S. Wylie, lately assistant medical superintendent at the hospital, and now at the front, and his family, in their bereavement by the death of Mrs. Wylie,

The following have been added to the list Qf probationers at the New Plymouth Hospital: Trances Tate, Haweraj Ethel Old, Mahoenui; Muriel Jane Stewart, Raupo, Northern Wairoa; Bernica May Ambury, Raupo; Gertrude 01iv«| Andrews, Mount Eden, Auckland. Out of 43 applications from all parti of the Dominion, A. F. Graham, of Dun-' edin, was appointed secretary of the Taranaki Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. He is a single man, aged 31, and has his widowed mother and sister dependent on him, liis brother having been "killed in action" on the Gallipoli (Peninsula. He has been for the past seven years assistant in the office of tlie Otago Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. At the great age of 09 years Mra. Tareha, sen., has just died at Hawke's Bay. She was something of an Amazon, having taken part in a fight against the Hauhaus at Omaranui under Colonel Whitmore. She was also a participant in the fight against Te Kooti near Giaborne, where Karauria was killed. Mrs. Tareha carried Karauria back from the firing line a distance of a mile over very broken country. Horace Larking, one of the victims of the quarry fatality at Ohakune, was an old Patea boy, and a son of Mr. J. F. Q. Larking, for many years in business in IPatea. The deceased, who was an exceptionally smart boy, passed through the Patea, District High School with honors and entered the Public Service as a cadet and promised to have a very successful career. Many regrets 'will be experienced in Patea at his early demise, and much sympathy will, be expressed with his parents in their sad bereave* ment.—Press. - <

Another old colonist, in the person of Mrs. Elia A. Davies, passed away at the Hawera Hospital oi; Sunday last. The deceased lady, who was nearly 72 years of ag?, was born !r. Herefordshire, England, and, with her husband, came out to the Aominion in the ship Douglas, which arrived at Wellington in 1874, after a long and stormy passage of 116 days. After spending it short time in Wellington, she nnd her husband went to Rangiorn, whee for seme time they kept a boardin;'-bousc She arrived in Taranaki about 34 yeais ago, and entered into farming pursuits, which were followed for some year... Mrs. Davies settled in Normanby about twelve years ago, wheri she was muci: respected. She is survived by her hufbard (Mr. John Davies), three uons and two daughters.— [Star.