PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 December 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A Perth cablegram reports, the death 1 of Mr. Frank Wilson, an ex-Premier, s Cr. W. R. Wright was yesterday rei elected chairman of the Egmont County > Council. J Air. I'. D. Walsh, of the Hawera post office, is relieving postmaster at Opu- ' iiake during the indisposition of Mr. WiuJ Stanley, the local jxJstmastcr. ' Private 11. Lobb, of the 13th Keinforcemehts, son of Mrs. £. A. Lobb, of ; H'estown, is. expected to arrive in Wel- ! lington on Decemiber 20. Private Lobb was badly knocked about by a shell , about 12 months ago, and, on, recover* | in£, returned to the front, but W£3 Soon ; after invalided to England. ; , Dr. Avcrill, Anglican Bishop of Auck- . land, arrived in TTew Plymouth yester- ■ day morning, on his annual visitation to tiu.< jmM of his diocese. The Bishop ar- , rived here for that purpose early last month, but returned to Auckland almost '' immediately on account of the influenza ' epidem;#. A{ yesterday's meeting of the Taranaki County CouncilCr. J. S. Connett, was unanimously re-elected chairman. Tlift motion was moved by Cr. McAllum and seconded by Cr J. Andrews and cordially supported by all other councillor.-. present. Cr. Connett suitably acknowledged the vote and the confidence expressed in him. . The Taranaki County Council, at its rneetign yesterday, passed a resolution of deep sympathy with Mr J. Brown date chairman of the Council) and He family, m their recent great (bereavement caused by the death of' Mrs Brown, and also expressing a hope that Mr Brown and bis son, who have been seriously ill with influenza, will soon be restored to their usual health. A bright young career has been cut off by the death at Hawera on Monday evening of Mr. Eric A. Wills, formerly in the accountancy' department of The Star, and lately practising on his Own account as a public accountant. He suffered a relapse from an attack of influenza. He was a splendid type of young man, who; had he been spared, would have gone far in his profession. He leaves a widow and {wo young children. The death took place" mouth Hospital early yesterday morning of Nurse Phoebe' Waite; She was one of the nurses who volunteered to go from New Plymouth to Auckland to assist in the influenza epidemic there. On returning from Auckland, < Nurse- Wait? went back to duty, being- apparently well. A day or - two - later" she developed influenza,, but no complications ensued until Monday, when virulent symptoms of a character not hitherto observed in cases in this district developed, and death subsequently occurred. Nurse Waite had been engaged,-at the jflospital for a little over two years; and had made herself generally popular,with those with whom she came, in contactHer parents were Mr. and Mrs.;,Waite, of Tarata. Much sympathy will be.extended to them and other in their loss Mrs, William' Henning (Auckland), who has for -some considerable time been in charge of the New Zealand. Lady Drivers Motor Transport Section at Homehurch, has decided to continue her work until the termination of the war savs a correspondent). Her husband, Second-Lieutenant William Henning, M.C., NZ.R.B., died at the 30th Cus- , ualty Clearing Station in France on September 13th. He was badly wound - - ed on the previous day while leading an attack against the enemy. Lieutenant Henning left New Zealand as a sergeant with the lt2h Reinforcement, and came ,to England for his commission after coming through the fTsrhting at Passchendaele in Octolber, WIT- He. returned to France in the following April, and in July .received the Military Cross for conspicuous, gallantry in- the field. He was wounded in August, but would not leave his -battalion- Before, coming to England Mrs 'Henning spent over a. year working at hospitals in Suez and Cairo. Tt is now sixteen months since, she took charge of the Motor Transport Depot at Horn church, and she finds the work extremely interesting. , . The old band of West Coasters has been further depleted by-the death-ef Mr John Hurley, J.P., of Whenuakura, Patea, at Wanganui, last week, at the age of 7-8 years. The deceased left Ireland in 1R53 for Victoria, and from there was attracted by the goE rush to the West, Coast where he remained until 1873, and then went to Patea to the land sale of the confiscated Whenuakura block, where he purchased a section and which he held ever since. In his early days on the Coast lie was an enthusiastic and successful athlete. _ Ho- was a man of a most retiring disposition, never mixing- much in politics except in rpad board, school committee and dairy factory matters. The family Is well Known in Taranaki, where three of "his brothers followed him and founded the township of Hurlevville, and whore six families'of the name how reside- One brother predeceased him, one is in Victoria, one at Hurlevville, one at Nevr Plymouth, and one who now resides in Wellington lived for a number of years at Manakau. A sister .'is Mrs M. .T. I>nch. Pftraparaumu. . Hp, was », most upright man, and-will be missed by a large circle of friends and relations. He I»(ives ■ a widow, six sons, ami two daughters. The youngest son made the supreme sacrifice about two months ago and this had a most depressing elTeei on him in his old age, " '