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Taranaki Daily News, 23 January 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL.

During the absence on Holiday leave of Mr. A. H. Kendall, health inspector, Mr. Schauer will act in this capacity in the Taranaki hospital district Mr. A. Morton, chairman of the National Dairy Association, was a passenger for Wellington by yesterday morning's express train, as was Mr. J. B. Murdoch, chairman of the Hawera County Council. A Hawera motor garage is employing a female mechanic, and a Star reporter was informed that she was giving entire satisfaction to her employers.

Diphtheria appears to have again broken out in the district (says the Hawera Star), there being six patients ill the Hawera Public Hospital. Nono of the cases are regarded as serious. Mr. Hickman Russell, valuer, of New Plymouth, recently valued the borough of Patea, and is at present engaged valuing the Waimate West County While pig-hunting at Omona on Saturday last, Mr. B. Hart, of Eltham, tripped on a stick, with the result that the gun he was carrying went off, the bullet passing throigh his shoulder and splintering the bone. An Auckland press message announces the death, at the age of 88, of the Hon. Thomas Thompson, who was first elected to tho House of Representatives in July. 1384, for Auckland City North. He was Minister of Justice and Defence in the Seddon Administration for four years. In 1903 he was called to the Legislative Council Mr. Charles Ahier died about two o'clock yesterday morning of heart failure. A native of Jersey, he came to New Zealand when still a boy, in the ship "Green Jacket" He served through the Waikato wars, and afterwards tried his luck at tho Thames goldfields, where he met with considerable success. In 1893 he came to Taranaki end joined Mr. Henry Brown in his sawmilling business at Inglewood and Stratford, and later on when the firm established a sash and door factory in Ne\» Plymouth Mr. Ahier assumed its management and continued in that position until a year or so ago, when he retired from the firm and into private life. Latterly hie health had been failing, and ior a few weeks he was compelled to lie up on account of a weak heart Mi - Ahier, who was 70 years of age, took considerable interest in public matters, both general and local, and was a staunch supporter of friendly societies as well as of tie Prohibition cause.