PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 November 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL.

w '! - ' ■ -on j Mr. P. C. Webb, who is resigning hit' seat, will go into camp at the fttd of the present year. A resolution of sympathy with the \Rev, A. H. Colvile, vicar of the Church ~ of the Holy Sepulchre, Khyber ■ pase (late of St. Mary's, New Plymouth) in his continued serious illness was passed, by the Angliean Synod at Auckland.! ■< ■ Mr. George Allan Lee, AiMLI.M,E.! and v ' M.A. Soc„ C.E., has been appointed! per- • manent engineer to the Napier Board. Air, Lee was bom in this country, and for eight years held the. position of sissistant-enginder to the Otago Harbour Board, and during the •past six years held *tjhe petition ol engineer to the Bluff Harbour 'Board. The many friends of Mr. J. B. Bennie, secretary o* the Kaponga Dftiry Cobpany, will regret to learn thijt he nwr ■ lies seriously ill at his home at IS»- ' ponga, Mr. Bennie, who has Med in indifferent health for . some, time past, recently went to meet his son, a returned soldier, and contracted a.ciflllon the journey. Private Meldrum, N.Z.E.F., who has p received his commission, has been ap- ' pointed A.D.C. to his father, BrigadierGeneral Meldrum, in command of the ' New Zealand Mounted Brigade in Pales- X tine. The Brigadier-General was former-' { '' ly Lieut.-Colonel commanding the Wei-" ' ... lington Mounted Rifies. 'and 'received the senior command in place of. BrigadierGeneral Chaytor, promoted toaijie rank 1 : of Major-General. Word was received.in Pfttpft last wed:.,,, (the 'Press says) from Lieutenant Burn* , ham Horner, son of Mr. "and -Mrs. E. C. Horner, to the effect that qUite recent- : - ly he brought his engineering-experience.,; into operation and invented a device for > locating a target more quickly and more , - accurately than the device ftt present in use, with the results thpt when the gen- -; eral came along and noticed the inven- . tion, Lieutenant Horner was "mentioned , " in despatches" and alsp. received promotion. Amongst the recently returned soldidtt " is 2nd Lieutenant Leslie Hill, a son of Mr. Samuel Hill, of the Internal Affairs Department, Auckland, late of Wellington and formerly of New Plymouth.' Second Lieutenant L. Hill who was well-,, known in local cricket and football circles, having represented Taranaki at Rugby, left New Zealand as a private. 7 He received one stripe before arriving at"' 1 Gallipoli, where ho was wounded in the fight at Cape Helles. He was invalided to Egypt and raised to the rank of sergeant." When the 2nd Brigade was formed he was attached and sent to, France, where he took part in a number of battles. On Saturday last there passed away,' l at the residence of her son (Mr. Wm. js. ■'■' ParSons, Awatuna), Mrs. Maria Pewitt, ' at the age of 91 years. Mrs. Perrett. h was born in Barrow-on-Furness, England, and on the death of her husband came to New Plymouth, some 28 years,, ago, to take up her residence with her eldest son, at Lepperton. She afterWards removed to Eliot street. Netv Plymouth, and later to Awatuna. Mrs,;; Perrett remained very active to the last,, ... and took a great interest in the doings , of all those around her. The funeral ,■ took place at Opunake on Monday last,.. ~'! the Rev. Mr. Walke officiating. TMie de- ' ceased lady leaves five children to mourn their loss, namely, Mr. Edward iParson*and Miss Mary Ann Parsons (Awatuna), Messrs Henry and Thomas Parsons (of America), and Mrs. Jackson (Barrow- , on-Furness. England), besides 33 grandchildren and 45 great-grandeliildren. ___________ "iIW