PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 March 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

[ Dr. Trilby King lias cabled announcing his safe arrival at Liverpool. Mr. W. N. Swing, of New Plymouth, has received advice that his son, Strath, who was wounded at Mcssines, has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant. Mr. 1. Nelson,, late manager of Hannah and Co.'s boot shop. New Plymouth, left on Thursday morning prior to going into camp. Mr. 0. ft-. Buckley lias been appointed to the position vacated by Mr. Nelson

The Government iias appointed Mr. Neville Tavman .is commissioner to visit New Men land and report on the methods of combatting infant mortality and secure tin- general welfare of mothers anft children. —London cable.

Mr. G. S. Strack, M.A., late of Wellington, lias been appointed to a position on the start' of the Palmerston North High School. Mr. Strack. who is a son of Mr. Strack, rector of the Hawera High School, receutiy returned from the front, where he saw considerable service. There was a large attendance of residents of the district at a social gathering held in the Tataraimaka School on Wednesday evening, to bid farewell to M'ss Gibson, who lias been assistant teacher at the school for (he past 31 years, but is leaving to take up a similar position at Hillsborough, in order to be nearer her home at Kaimiro. The chairman of the school commit!ee (Mr. R. McAllum), in a brief speech, in which he expressed the regret of parents at Miss Gibson's departure, presented her, oil behalf of the children, with a fountain pen, and, on behalf of the parents, with a dressing case, Miss Giddy succeeds Miss Gibson. A progressive eijchre tournament was held during the evening, the prizes being wop. as follows:—Ladies: Mrs. Irving 1, Miss Clarice Honcyflcld 2, Mrs. George booby. Gentlemen: Mr. Eric Iloneyfield 1, Mr. F. Jury 2. The Rev. Clement Houchen, M.C., who was among those mentioned in dispatches at the en.! of December by Sir Douglas Haig, will return to New Zealand shortly, having been declared unfit for general duty within a year. He was severely wounded in the head on October 4, and, though improving generally, has lost the sight, of his left eye. Mr! Houelien left New Zealand as chaplain to the Ist and 2nd Battalions of the Rifle Brigade, in October, 1015. He was with that brigade until the beginning of 1917, when he was appointed senior Church of England chaplain to the New Zealand Division in France, which appointment he held until wounded. Mr. Hoi.chen was vicar at; Te Kuiti. prior to leaving for the front, ar.d before that was in charge of the Taranaki backblocks mission. His brother, Sub-Lieutenant Harold Houelien, of the Royal Naval Reserve, was lately granted his commission, and is now on duty in the North Sea.