PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 January 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL.

_ Mr. H. H. Halliwcll, of Hawesa, is re. tiring from his law practise at tie end of March, and wffi permanently settle in Auckland.

Commandant Cook, of the Mastertou Corp? of the Salvation Army, has been transferred to Oamaru. Ensign W. Sawyer, Of Elth&m, Will fVvmmandaiA Cook.

Major Keswui, who recently left tfeU district for Wellington, returned to Opunake to take charge there. Captain Mercer gMs back to Wtilingtcei is * few; days.

A London cable reports the death of Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace, who editr ed the tenth edition of tho Encyclopedia Britanica, and works cn Has* sia, etc.

Mr. George Cliff is on a short slsJt to New Plymouth after &a of nearly ten years.

Mr. Philip Grey, of New Plymouth, who recently took tip a legal practice in Auckland, loft by the Bonum on J'riday aiier spending tho holidays here.

Mr- 5. S. Connett, who has Tawm to? disposed during the past two or ftMw weeks, had sufficiently recovered to be able to come into ton <xj, bosuzoa®- <2Q Saturday.

A London cable states that Mb. BttF, Boys, a New Zealander, and director of Meat Supplies, hag been a Commander of the Order of the Kri&h Empire (KJBJ2J, while Captain of the steamship Warilda, has been unfa an officer of the Older (ORB.)

Mr. Harry Skinner is visiting New Plymouth, and is engaged chsaUyiaff tin whole of the exhibite in the amwnm. Q is anticipated that tiro official iy«w ceremony will be deferred nntfl the ao> val of Mr. H. Skizmor & £sv weda hence.

Mr. A. H. Booworth, who Rcently xe< tired, from the Bank of New 7**i.r,A qq pension, is on a bosinesa visit to Not Plymouth. He joined the service of the Bank here under the late Mr. Hm.. King some 41 years ago, and for the last 36 yeare has been on the Christetattch staff of the Bank. Mr. Boswortii £s g brother of Mrs. a DockrilL

At 8t Andrew's Church on EHtnrday a wedding was soloinniscd botween Dr. «1 N. MaeDiarmid, youngest son of Mr. H. K. MaeDiarmid, New Plymouth, and Miss Mary Tolme, daughter of Mrs. Tolmo, of Fitzroy. The officiating minister was the Eov. 0. BlwidelL Mr. D. K, MacMannid, brother of the bridegroom, acted as best roan, &nd the bridesmaids were the ,Misses Balharry. Mr. and Hre. MaeDiarmid left later in the day o& a tiKAwiwr tour.

There ate not maay Now Zealand soldiers wio have been vrouwdod six times and are B till serving. This i 3, however, tho case with Major Newman Wilson, 8.5.0., MA, the youngest son of Mr. R. Ik Wilson, of Waimate. Major Wilson left with the Second Reinforcement as a lieutenant, and saw considerable service on Qallipoli, and later in Francs. 110 was awarded tho Military Cross at tho beginning of 1918, and the award of tho D.S.O. was aanounced amongst tho New Year honors, Before leaving for the front Major Wilson was on the office staff of the Canterbury Farmers' CoOperathro Association at Tiaiaru. One of his broth era waa killed on and another has returned.

Notification from Base Records has been received by Mi'. A. Taylor, of Moi* ningside, that his eldest son, Private Albert B. Taylor, has bjen awarded n scholarship of £2OO, tenable for 000 year, a t_ Merton College, Oxford, the donors being the Rhodes' MYustees. He was one of those selected by Lord Selborne, president of the Ovowcas Sailor and Soldier Scholarship Fund. Private Taylor, who U 22 years of age, was educated at the Mount Albert Primary School, After passing the junior Scholarship examination, he_jntered the Auckland Gramaur School, where, two yearn later, he gained a senior scholarship. Aftev '/idling a junior University scholarship, no attended tho Auckland University College At the time of his enlistment in tie Sevantii jlleinfovcmi'nlj he had gained the fcf* section of his Bachelor of Arts dcgr«e. Tho successful candidate haa been wounded several times, and was gttsasd at ti:u Sorcmc.