PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 November 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr, R. H. Pigott has bpjn ek-ctfj chairman of the Clifton County Council. Mr. Pigott held tlio office of chairman some years ago.

Mr. H. J. Okey, M.P., who has been to Wellington in connection with the conference over the requisitioning oil the wool, returned to Xew Plymouth by the mail train last nig^t.

At the 'Presbyterian ! Assembly, tie Rev. A. Don was unanimously reappointed Foreign Missions Secretary for another term of three years. A Paris cablegram reports the deatli of Dr. Doyen, who claimed to have dis* covered the microbe of cancer.

The Minister for Justice announces that Cabinet lias approved of the appointment of Superintendent J. O'Donovan, of Wellington, as Commissioner of Police.

The Right Rev. Dr. Averill, Rishrfp of Auckland, lias been epgaged this week at Stratford, Rahotu, Okato and 1 Tatnraimaka, and returned to New Plymouth yesterday. This evening he will hole! a Confirmation service at Holy Trinity Church, Te Ifenui, 'at S o'clock.

Lieut,-Colonel B. 0. Freyberg, D.5.0., Commander of the Hood Battalion, Royal Xaval Brigade, has been wounded in the throat, and is now (according to advice received by his mother in Wellington) in Etretat Hospital, France, This is the sixth occasion on which Lieut. - Colonel Freyberg has been wounded—at Antwerp, three times at flallipoli, and twice on the Western front.

Among the Taranaki soldiers included in tlie roll of lionor are the fol* lowing:—Died of Sergeant E. J. Harris (.Mrs. M. A. Harris, Inglenood, motlici'l, 'Private J. R. Anderson (J. Anderson, Stratford, father). Wounded: Lance-Corporal E. C. Hone, (Mrs. T. Hone, Waverley, mother); Private S. IT. Haddrell (W. H. Haddrcli, New Plymouth, father); Private .T. A. McCook" (J. McCook Opunsaske, father).