PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A I.onflon cable state; that the PrlTm. | Minister (Mr. Lloyd Ceorge) is improving. X London cable states that Her Ma-je-ty the Queen gave an audience to Lady Ward. Mr. ('. ]'. Ihiton. librarian of the Wangamii I'ti'mi, Library, is spending a month's riv.iperatiiig rest in Xc,v :l'lyiuiuitli. Air. Ilyllon last visited .New Piyiuouth :hi year- a so. The I'mural of the late Mr. Daniel ;ii:V' J wh" '! i"l ii: New Plvmniith 1 Vm>--iairok idaei- in Maniia on." .Thursday, and was one of the larpest th» <!i»friit fi>r many years. blowing i:: what high e-tceni the litre Mr. liagiics v.a, held by a ii. The Key. Father Sauuder-on officiated iit the t'h'.ircli and ijravc-ide. and was assistec by the lb v. Fat ho; (Viiill (Kaponpa and lb-v. Father Kellv (New Plv - ' 1 mouth). Mr. Art liny I'ai'.'h, a driver, ! n the employ of the Sew' Zealand Kxpress Company, who had his left log broken in an accident at the railway yards on l)e-ember ti, is making -ati-fafto: <■ progress at the New I'lymimtb 110-j'tal. Anion;; the New Zealand families who leue done their be-t for the Kmpire during the war is that of Mrs. t'anl, of New Plymouth, Scrr.eant-M.ijor (.er aid I'aul was wounded while lighting with the Canadian- in France, and lie was afterwards di-charjieil as nifdically unlit, lie has now joined Lord Stvnthcamt's llnrse. and is in tump at Winnipeg. Serjeant Stan 1 ' i,' ; ,ui! hits returned to New Zeal: . after service on the ho=pitai ship M.:;.ima. and lie goe.s into camp again in dnr.aarv. Lieutenant Sydney l'uui went the G.iili;ioii i-titiiiiaiL;'n almost without a scratch While tig hti ng in France, he suffered from shell-shock, and he is at present on sick leave in Kuglaiid. A fourth son lias cnli-ted, ami goes into camp shortly.

A p.'easant social function wa< held ir. the Citizen*' Hand room on Snturdny evening, ivlumi Mcssr*. J. Weal, ('. Allen, aiul 11. Salt, rail way employee*, who leave New l'iymouth with the next reinforcement draft, were entertained by their friends. The gathering, which consisted of over thirty railway employees and visitors, was presided over by Mr. S. <>. Smith. The Mayor (Mr |C. H. Burgess) and Mr. 11. .1. H. Okey, M.l\, were also .present. After supper St short toast list, which was intersoersed with vocal items, was honored. Acting on behnlf of the guests' fellow-workmen, the Mayor presented Mr. Allen with a pipe and a tobacco-pouch. Mr. Okey made .Messrs. Weal and .Salt the recipients of wristlet watches. The health of the three recruits was drunk, and they were wished every success and a safe return. The Moa lloail Board on Saturday niifsed a resolution expressing its appreciation of the services rendered by the late Mr. M. Ilopson to the district and extending the sincere sympathy of the n.itubers to the relatives in their beleaveinent. In moving the rVsolution, me chairman said that the late Mr. Hoption liad been a member of the Board for main' years, not continuously but at intervals. ' He had taken a prominent part in the public life of the district, being lirst mnnager of the Moa Farmeis' Union, and auditor for most of the Ueal dairv companies. In his wurk for the public, though the speaker had not always agreed with him, ho was always genuine in the opinions he held, and never, did anything for the sake of pOguUi) itv. His death was a losp in niany v ays to the district.