PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 15 January 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL

Messrs Govett a,id Quilliam, solicitors, have admitted Mr Ronald Quilliam, LL.B., into partnership in the finu. Tho employees of the main Ktmpokouui dairy fretory » few days ago made a presentation of a silver set of fish cutlery to the sub-manager, Mr. Jainea Hornby. It is probe,bio that Colonel C. W. Giblyjn, C.MXr., Chief of tho General Stall', when he returns to England will he placed, lit his own request, on the retired list, and will engage ill farming his property in Ireland. Mr. Wallace Good, a resident of Auckland for the past fifty-eight years, died suddenly on Monday at his residence Boston Road, Mount Eden, aged 78. He came to New Zealand with his father and five hrtohers in the ship Coducace in October, 1860.

A painfully sudden death occurred at Eltham on Monday morning, when Mm. T Hodgen died from heart failure. The decca ;cd lady had been in indifferent health for swne time.

In the latest list published J. ITarmcll (1?. Harmcdl, New Plymouth, father) is reported among the prisoners of war now repatriated. Dev. Father Kelly, of New Plymouth, is at present in Opunake relieving Father Doolaglity, who is at present indisposed. Father Doolaglity did splendid work during the. recent epidemic. Mr. R. Masters, chairman of the Taraliaki Education Board, leaves to-day for Wellington, ori business relating to local educational matters.

The Bgmont County Council yeeteri day passed a resolution of sympathy with Rev. Palmer in tlie loss of his wife, a prominent worker, who died during the epidemic. A vote of sympathy was also expressed with residents in the ■county who had suffered bereavement by the loss of relatives. A private eahle received on Monday stated that Major Charles Cornwall is at the Walton-on-Thamos Hospital. Some anxiety was felt about him by his friends, who bad no news of him for some months. Ho was known to have I been a prisoner in Germany, and in rather a bad way, and the long silence caused anxiety. The cable states that ho is well, but this probably moan# "comparatively well" and improving. Appreciative reference was made at the meeting of the Egmont County Council yesterday to the valuable work rendered by Major Keenan in the county [during the recent epidemic, a tribute being paid to his organising ability. It was resolved, on the motion of the chairman, thai ho be accorded a t vote of thanks for his valuable services, and that a copy of the resolution be forwarded to the Health Department. Cr. Green dissented from tbfe resolution, stating that while he fully recognised that the vote was deserved, he considered that the proper body to have passed it was the Public Health Committee, which comprised members of the County Council, the Town Board, and the Pariliaka Road Board.