PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 April 1917, Page 5

PERSONAL.

A Wellington -wire states that Mr, 'J. P. Luke has been re-elected Mayor unopposed. There are 29 candidates for 15 vacancies on the City Council. Mr. W. G. Toswill, at present engineer to tho Eltham Box Company, at Utiku, and formerly connected with the Public Works Department in Taranaki, has been appointed engineer to the Eltham County Council, in succession to Mr. F. Basham, who resigned the position in order to take up an appointment at Patangata. Mrs Margaret Jackson, of 32 Franklin road, Ponsonby, Auckland, celebrated her 101st birthday last week, when she was visited by a number of friends. Tho old lady, who still enjoys comparatively good health, is a native of Ireland, and came to New Zealand in 1872 with her second husband, Corporal John Jackson,' a Mutiny veteran, who has been dead, some thirty years. Apart from deafness, the old lady shows few signs of her great age. At the Oddfellows'.Hall, Eltham, on Friday evening, a large attendance of the public farewelled Private J. W. Barr, now on final leave. Mr. E. Parrott, in presenting him with a pocket wallet, referred to the good qualities of the departing soldier, who had spent nearly all his years in the town. He was sure lie would do his best to uphold the honor of those who had left by previous reinforcements. Private Barr had a brother at tho front, and showed tne true spirit of a soldier by volunteering as soon as lie reached the qualifying Ige. Private Barr thanked the public for their interest in him, and promised to do his best for King and country. Dance music was supplied by the Foster Brothers.