PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 September 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Constable J. N. Morris, of Taihape, !s bemg transferred to New Plymouth, vice Constable Naughtpn, who is now at Hawera. The Egmorit A. and P. Association has appointed Mr. A. Perkins, accountant with Mr. Harris, Hawera, secretary or the association, A London cablegram reports that Harold Kempthorne, Lieutenant in the field artillery, son of. Archdeacon Kemptliorne, Brightwater, New Zealand, has been killed in action. Mr. T. Watkin, who has been for many years first assistant at the Cardiff Dairy Factory, has been appointed manager for the recently-formed Tuna Dairy Company, which is about to start operations. Messrs Morton (chairman of the. National Dairy Association) and Geo. H. Bnekeridge were passengers by tho mail train for Wellington yesterday, They ore joining other delegates to-day to interview the Prime Minister on Jwtter matters. The following names of Taran&kl men appear in the latest hospital progress report: Severe cases—Ji A. Jones (Mokau), G. T. Laurence (Stratford)/ Not severe cases-J. Frei (Eltham), W. D. Graham (Taranaki), W. Gray (Taranaki), A. Larsen (Taranaki), R. H, Read (Taranaki), D. W. Ritchie (Hawera), T E. Wilkie (Taranaki). : Among the New Zealanders who, have recently won honors at the front is Sergeant F. T3. Masters, of Stratford, who has received special mention in Meso. potamian dispatches. Sergeant Musters, *who left with the'main body, was also mentioned in dispatches in the Gallipoli campaign. He is at present in France. It is expected that he will return to New Zealand before long, as his father, Mr. J. Masters, has received cahfe advice that he is to have 10 months' furlough! Sir James Allen was aeked In the House on Wednesday if it were true that , he was going to London as High Commissioner. , He pave the report an immediate and firm 5 denial. The voice of rumor has connected every .prominent member of the Ministry with the High Commissionership during the last twelve months. There is no indication that Sir Thomas Mackenzie will not continue to fill the office for the present,VnoV it Swill not be surprising if he remains in London until the end of the war.—Our Oorre* spondent. ... Representatives of the legal profession throughout Taranaki met in the law library of the New Plymouth Courthouse yesterday afternoon, for, theourpose of bidding farewell to Mr John Terry (deputy registrar of (the Supreme Court, and clerk of the Magistrate's Court), who has been transferred, on promotion to Auckland, and leaves for thjii,!eity by the first steamer next week, -Those present expressed high apprciation of the courtesy and attentiveness that have always characterised the discharge of Mr Terry's official duties, and wished him every future success. It was explained that the profession intended to aek Mr. Terry's, acceptance of a gift which would • serve to remind. his many Taranaki friends, and of the high esteem in which he is held" by all the members of the legal fraternity, but found'that they could not do so until after the official permission of the iPublic Service Commissioner has been obtained. Mr. Terry thanked those present for their kindness and good intentions, and said he would always have the most pleasant memories of his official and social associations with tho people of Taranaki.