PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 January 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The Dally Express (London) states that Mr. Walter Long will probably succeed Sir Edward Carson as a member of the War Council, Bombardier J. C. Sumner, who lias been invalided to the Dominion, is expected to reach on February 2. He is classified as unfit for service for six months. Mr. A. Carter, of Greymouth, lm9 been appointed manager for the Union Steamship Company at Fiji, in succession to Mr. 3<jva. Mr. P. .N. Jeffreys, branch manager at New Plymouth, has been appointed to Greymouth. Mr. D. Morrison, sub-manager at Raratonga, goes to New Plymouth.—Press Association. Mr. T. liarle Giles completed nine years' service as conciliation commissioner in Auckland on Monday. A veteran of the 40th Regiment was interred at Otabuhu Roman Catholic cemetery, namely, Mr. John Cady, who had attained the good age of 8l" years. The -10 th Regiment saw a lot of active service during the war with the- Maoris. At the close of hostilities numbers of the men from the various regiments \v,ho took part in the war were allowed to remain behind in 'New Zealand. Naturally after the half a century the number of veterans of the Maori war is r&pidlv diminishing. The principal of the New Plymouth Boys' High School, Mr. W. H. 'Moves, received a telegram 011 Tuesday advising that H. H. Goss, one of the pupils at the school, has gained a staff cadet's scholarship at tM Royal Military College, Duntroon, Australia. Ten scholarships are offered annually for New Zealand, and last year about one hundred candidates entered for the examination. The course at Duntroon extends over four years, and on completion of training at the college, at the age of 20 or 22 years, the cadets join the New Zealand Staff Corps, with the rank of lieutenant. Goss's elder brother, Lieutenant L. G. Gosa, who is now serving with the Expeditionary Forces, has been through Duntroon College, he also entering from the New Plymouth High School. A well-known citizen, in the person of Mr. John Black, passed away at Miramar on Saturday afternoon, after a protracted illness. For many years deceased was Controller of Stores in the Post and Telegraph Department. He was a native of Fifeshire, Scotland, and went to sea when a boy. In 1804 he joined the Oi-neral Government Telegraph Construction Party at Dunedin, and for many years was in charge of constructing parties in the South Island, being subsequently transferred to the North Island, where, anjong other works, he completed the line from Wanganui to Hawera, Patea, and Opunake. For several years after that he was paymaster and telegraphist at Hawera, afterwards constructing the line from Hawera to New Plymouth. In 1878 he was appointed Controller of Stores at Wellington, which position he held until liis retire ment on superannuation in June, IGO9.