PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 March 1917, Page 5

PERSONAL.

■, /M r : of the Agricultural' 1 Division, was in town yesterday. M A Wellington telegram states thfct Hon W. C. F. Camcross has been re< ' appointed to the Legislative Council. f Mr. F. W. G. McLcod, bandmaster of ■ the Citizens' Band, and Mr. A. Brooker,, returned yesterday morning from a holii day spent In the north. , ' : Air. C. V. Houghton, Auckland manager •*" of the New Zealand company, paid a brief visit to New Plymouth and Wdi, tara yesterday, returning north by thft boat last night. • ■ ■ ; Captain Chudley, marine superinten-i ' dent of the Shaw, Savill Shipping Com-" pany, arrived in New Plymouth by the mail train last night. ; Captain Bone, superintendent of the / New Zealand' Shipping Company, is ex- ■ ■ pected to arrive here from Auckland to*. ■' night. T Mr. George Cock, Leach Street, New Plymouth, has received advice that hU son, Private G. Cock, was admitted to Walton-on-Thames Hospital on March 18, suffering from slight bronchial catarrh. The members of the Hawera Park 1 Croquet Club on Monday farewellod Mrs McNecly, who is leaving for Auckland, ~ and presented her with a handsome tilvcr jewel casket as a token of their ftp* preciation of hot" service? as secretarv to the club, and of the esteem in which* lha > is held. Mr. W. A.' Hewitt, mnnageV of the i Stratford branch of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd, on behalf of the Stratford staff of t,ht company, yesterday presented Mr. ft! 0. Burrell, auctioneer and stock agent, and 1 Mr. A. H. Perrv, stock agent at Whangs inomona, with a wristlet watch eaOh, prior to their departure to join the Ks« peditionary Forces: Both these officer* have-.-proved themselves very popular with the public, and their services will < bo very much missed by the company.- ■ At the Hawera S.M. Court ses|erday> Senior Sergeant McNecly, who is leaving for Auckland, was .farewelled by thft ' Bench and Bar. Messrs. Welsh , and o'l)ea paid tributes of praise to the ■- sergeant's universal fairness and knowledge of the criminal law, and wished him success in liig new sphere of action. Haselden, S.M., described the set' geant as an officer of thy highest intclli- , gence, and deeply regrotted his depar- ! ture, while wishing him a long and successful career. Sergeant McN'eely j thanked the Magistrate and the Bar tor their tourtesy and good wishes. Many will regret to hear of the death * of Mr. Albert Sowiy, who passed away at the New Plymouth Hospital on Tuesday after six months' illness,* He was---born at Cluristcluirch in 1805. and wa» ' the third son of the late Mr. Joseph <' Sowry, the first Mayor of WoocUilla He took great interest in the volunteers, of which he held the rank of sergeant. He wis a well-known rifleman, and won many prizes. He spent his younger days i in Woodville, and at the age of 20 ii# ■ took up lnnd at Eketahuna, He married Miss Wills, of Nelson, sister of the l".ta ' Rev. T. J. Wills: Nearly twenty years ago he went up the Main Trtink line, near Taihape, and farmed there for cigut years, after which ho cauie to Tannakt and went farming in t>» Moki an I " Urcnui digtricte. ' "?■■■ r*v