PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 June 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A Press Association message from Paeroa reports the sudden death of Dr. Hope Lewis yesterday.

A Sydney cablegram states that Mr. W. H. LRmbert liaß been elected president of the Political Labor League. Private J. G. List, of Awapuni Ambulance Camp, is in New Plymouth on his final leave.

Lieutenant Bob Woods, of Stratford, was wounded in the battle of Messines, and' he is now in Brockenhurst Hospital, England.

Mr. F. H. Bakewell, M.A., of Wellington, has been appointed senior inspector of schools in the Wellington district in succession to Mr. T. R. Fleming, transferred to Otago.

The death occurred at 10 o'clock last night of a very old settler of Okato, in the person of Mr. Thomas Doyle, in his 85th year. He leaves a widow, but no family. On the eve of their .leaving Manaia, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Candy were the recipients of a presentation from the members of the Presbyterian church and the townspeople, generally.

Mr. J. McMurray, who has been a director of the Eltham Dairy Company for the past twenty-five years* was presented by hia fellow-directors on Monday with an illuminated address.

Mr, E. Dunn, of Auroa, president of the Taranaki Farmers' Union, is on a. visit to New Plymouth, and will act as judge in the field roots and districts' court section of the Winter Show.

, A cable message from Ottawa announces the resignation of the Hon. E. L, Patenaude, Minister for Inland Hevenue and Marine. , ; Sergeant John Hiorns Mander (B Company, 27th Reinforcements), of New Plymouth, has been appointed SecondLieutenant on probation and posted to the 31st Reinforcements. Corporal R. G. B. Sinclair (son of Mr. J. Sinclair, formerly of 'Vogeltown) has also been appointed to a commission in the same draft. ' The death occurred of Mr. J. J. Griffiths, an old and respected veteran, at Inglewood on Monday at the age of 84. He arrived from England in the early days in the al\ip Ben Nfvia, He served three years as a mounted in the. late Maori war unijer the late Colonel Wiiitmoro and Major Von Teavpiiky, Major 1-lunter and Captain Newland. Later he took up farming in the Inglewood-,,.dis-trict. Two years ago, otffag to 411health, he sold put amd lived in Inglewoiid. He leave's a widow and family ofi« nine children and 17 the' .sons and daughters being as foltowa: Mrs. S. Madgewick, N<tfm«}iby, Mrs. «. T. Hall, Waitara, Mr:' W. H. Griffiths, Taumaranui, Mrs. R. Handley, Ingtawood, Mr. A. J.'Griffiths, Toko, Mrs. G. Hcnwood, Ingle-wood,, Mjp.'S. Roberts, Lepperton, Mrs. G. Lindsay, Inglewood, Mrs. E. Q. Harding, Inglewood.