PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 March 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A Sydney cablegram states that Hie Rev. James Green lias been elected president of the Methodist Conference. The lion. Gilbert Carson haa been elected chairman of the Press Association for the ensuing year.—Press Association. Mr. 11. A. Foyster, who has been a resident of Taramiki for the last twentytwo years, and who owns a good deal of land in the King Country, is at present in England, having received a commission in the Army Service Corps. At present he is stationed at Retford. Private advice was received in New Plymouth yesterday morning that- Mr. Harry Tonks had died suddenly on Wednesday night at Milling. The late Mr. Tonks was well known in New Plymouth, where he resided for some years. He was with Mr. Blylhu when'the latter was in business as a. draper in Devon Street. Latterly Mr. Tonks had been travelling in the Wanganui district for Messrs. Archibald Clark and Sons. Mr. and Mrs. Huse, of Midhirst, received word yesterday that their son, Gunner Arthur Edmund Huse, iiad died of wounds on February 21. He left with the Fifth Reinforcements, and took part in the lighting at Gallipoli, and also at the iSoiiime, where he was wounded. After six months in the hospital in England, he returned to France, and rejoined his battery, whence news has come of his death. In the casualty list published yesterday, the following Taranaki names appeared:—Killed in action: P. A, Rook (F. Rook, New Plymouth, mother). Wounded: W. R. Claris (W. H. Claris, Hawera, mother). The hospital and progress report contains the following names:—Severe cases: 0. L. Gay lard (New Plymouth). Not severe cases: E. IC. Barlow (Manaia), R. Elliott (New Plymouth), W. Godkin (Ngaere), C. Lander (New Plymouth). In bidding farewell to Mrs. Read, who for the past two years lias occupied the position of head teacher of the Otangiwai school, and has been transferred to the charge of Wailii (Waitara) school, the chairman of the committee handed to Mrs. Read a handsome travelling rug, as a small token of esteem and appreciation of her services. The best of relationship, he said, had always existed amongst committee, parents, children and Mrs. Read, and the settlers well knew their loss in the transfer of their teacher, whose place it would be a dillicult matter to fill so aptly. He concluded by wishing Mrs. Read, on the settlers' bohalf, the best of luck in her new sphere.