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Taranaki Daily News, 26 February 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr C. M. Greenland, secretary of the Westport Harbour Board, is spending a abort holiday in New Plymouth. . A Sydney cable states tliat the Governor of New South WaleSj Sir Gerald Strickland, has applied /or leave of absence, and will shortly depart for England. Rev. A. IT. Colvile, who has been appointed vicar of Bt. Sepulchre's, Auckland, leaves to-morrow en route for the north. This evening the parishioners of St. Mary's and oth<Sr friends will meet to bid him farewell. Mr. Fabian Ware has JJjo unique distinction of being the first journalist to become a general. He has only been connected with the army since 191!), when he was given the temporary rank of major.' Previous to that he was for six years editor of the Morning Post, and was one of the most popular figures in Fleet street. He now holds the Directorship of the Graves Registration Commission of the "British Ann.v, with the rank of brigadier-general. General Ware has had a varied career. For ten years he was an assistant-master in secondary schools, later on an inspector to the Board of J'.ducation, for two years Director of Education in the Transvaal, and finally commander of a unit of the British P>ed Cross Society with the French Army. He is a chevalier of the Legion of Honor. A cable received in Christchurch on Tuesday stated that Mr. Philip Carrington, of Canterbury College, New Zealand, has been awarded the Hulsean Prize at Cambridge University. Mr. Philip Carrington is a son of Dean Carrington, of Christchurch. Ho is 24 years of age, and went to Cambridge two years ago to read for Holy Orders, after passing through Christ s College and Canterbury College. At Cambridge lie has <won the Chancellor's gold modal for liny isli verse, the Members (of Parliament) prize for an English essay, the Carus Prize for knowledge of the Greek Testament, the Searlo Prize for an English essay, a first in theology, and now°the Hulsean, which is one of the university's own prizes, value 00 guineas, and is given annually for the best theological essay.