PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 February 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mrs. Hugh Linn, of Te Popo, has received advice that her husband, Gunner Linn, arrived in Auckland by the Oxfordshire on Sunday Mr J. G. L Hewitt, S.M., has been appointed the chairman of the North and South Island Railway. Boards ot Ap» peal-

Among those returning from the front shortly i« Rifleman S. G. Cameron, of Alton, the well known Tarauaki representative footballer.

Miss Grace Luke, youngest daughter [ of Mr and Mrs C. M. Luke, was married last week to Colonel AY. Ef. Cunningham, D.-9.0, who has just returned to the Dominion in charge of the transport Rushine.

Troopers L. and I'. Landers, of Manaia, arrived home from the front on Wednesday night after nearly two and a half years' service. Both suffered from malaria.

Jlr Tv Branch, of Inglcwood, hag betn appointed roads inspeteor to tho Tarauaki County Council. He will take up tlu portion as soon au he can be relieved from his present dntios. • There was a large gathering of ihe Wellington Bar yesterday in the Supreme Court to congratulate Justice Edwards on his elevation to a knighthood. Mr. Levi, president of the Lav/ Society, spoke in very complimentary terms of the judge.—Press Asaoa. Miss Broad, matron u? the Kawera Hospital, returned to Hawera lr.3t evening after an extended absence on sick leave following a serious operation. Sister Davis has charge ®l the Hawera hospital during the matron's absence. A London cable states that Mr. Clutha Mackenzie expects to sail for New Zealand in March. He has issued the last number of the highly successful Chronicles of the Expeditionary Force. Mr Clutha Mackenzie hopes to continue the publication in New Zealand. He\ suggests that a permanent Memorial should be erected in France to commemorate the association of the Australian and New Zealand troopß on many fields. The new vicar of All Saints' Anglican Church, Ponsonbv, the Rev. Frederick W. Young, was instituted by the Bidhop Of Auckland, Dr. A- W, Averill, a few evenings ago, in the presence of a large congregation. The 'bishop was supported by a number of clergy of the diocese. Referring to the vinax-elect, the bishop said he was a tried wan, a man of vision, and the congregation should not seek to como between him and God with any little schemes of its own, There recently diod at Cambridge a man who arrived in Auckland just seven years after the colony was founded at the Bay of Islands by Governor Ilouson, seventy-nino yearo ago. Mr. i George Lloyd had attained tlie age of SI years. He landed in Auckland when a boy aged nine, with his parents, in,. j the year 1H47, from the ship Si* Rob- • ert Sale. He lived some years e.t How-, ick, and married a daughter of the lato ■Mr W, Mellon, one, of the earliest surveyors to reach that district- Mr IJoyd saw service during tho Maori War with tl>g Howiek cavalry. In 1868 Mr Lloyd drove with his wife and five children from Taj-am ki to Okakau, a journey which at that time occupied a wAqk He farmed there for nome years, and was • afterwards a resident at N»aroto for/13 years later he was appointed to the Cambridge 20 years ago, whore he resided until his death .

The Bev. L.G. Whitehead, M.A., has teen appointed'warden in ehnr?« ofSelwyn College, Dnntdin.' Mr Whitehead, after leaving the Chris tchu run Normal Training College in 1014; was appointed to thi? Ashlmrton main school, asd three years iatcr he wasappointed to thi Sydenham public Rehool. In 1910 Mr Whitehead received an appointment in charge of the preparatory department of the Christchurch Boya' 11igb School, and has ever since heon on the stiff of that school, Mr Whitehead is also asdistent priesir at St. Saviour's, Sjden> hum, and lecturer in philosophy and psychology to the Workers' Kducational ?\«sofiatton, of which hodv he was seeveterv for some o." tiderable time. H» gained his M.A with first-class honors m philosophy in 1915. and later was awarded an exhibition in Hebrew by tha *ew Zealand Board of Theolnj'val ■ tudifs, Mr Whitehead will take'up his new position ut Easter.