PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 December 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. S. A. H. Robb, general secretary of the Y.M.C.A., CJiristchurch, is visiting New Plymouth.

Mr. R. W. Hamerton, for many years town clerk of Patea, who was believedto have recovered from'an attack of influenza, suffered a relapse, and now lies seriously ill from rheumatic fever.

Mr. Chas. Stevenson, dairy instructor, Manaia, has been transferred to New Plymouth. On Wednesday the.Manaia (bowlers presented him with a set of pipes, tobacco pouch and fountain pen. < An Auckland press message last night stated that Mr. W. E. Hutchison, a wellknown building contractor, find a former member of the City Council and jfarbor Board, had died from injuries received in a motor accident on Monday. .Mr. J. Roberts, of New Plymouth, ha 3 received word that his son, Private Frank' S. Roberts, who was made a prisoner of •war in April, has been released aijd arrived at BipQii on the 17th instant. TM New Plymouth Harbor Board, at its meeting yesterday, passed a resolution of condolence with Mr.. E. Dockfill (a member of the Board) on the death of his son. A resolution was also passed expressing sympathy with Mr J. B. Connett, an , ex-chairman, in his illriess. The news of the death of Mrs. M. C. de.Nayerne will be read with regret by many students of the Wellington Girls,' High School in the late eighties of the last century. Before her marriage she was Miss Hamilton, and as principal of the school was loved and esteemed by all who cams within tho sphere of her influence. . - •

At a, meeting of directors of the New Plymouth Gas Company a vote of sympathy was passed with Mr. ]?. Dockrill (a director of the company for many years) and Mrs. Dockrill in'their recent bereavement.

The Rev. B. T, Peat, who was in charge of the Rotorua, Methodist circuit, and who returned from the front invalided, after serving as a ehaplain, has been appointed to the Balclutha circuit, Otago, 1 - ■ :

J?lain-c!othes Constable T Fjtzgfbbon, who has been absent on sick leave, returned to New Plymouth on Thursday, but cannot yet resume duty. While it KimboUon recuperating after undergoing a severe operation at New Plymouth, Constable Fitzgibbon was attacked by influenza, followed by pleurisy, 'and was confined to his bed for about anot.be" month.

The death occurred at her paint residence, South Roail, yesterday, of Miss Jessie Mclsaac, only'daughter of Mr (*nd Mrs. W. R, Mclsaac. Deceased was verv well known in Few Plymouth, having taken a prominent part in local musical circles, besides being a leading member of the New Plymouth Life-saving 01ul< She v as of a bright disposition, and was in good health until about 12 months ago, when she suffered from congestion of the lung 3. Later consumption set in, arid despite medical aid she succumbed after a lingering illness, at the early age of 22. Considerable sympathy will be extended to her parents aiud ralati ~