PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 February 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr D. 6. Cooper, who waa chairman of the Military Board which eat at ,Hawera pretty frequently, has now been reappointed a member of the Pensions Board.

Mr S. Campbell, of Piharaa, (he new-ly-eleeted Egmont County representative to the Taranaki Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, took his seat yt»terday, and was cordially welcomed by the chairman.

A London cable states that Lord JeHicoe will probably arrive in New Zealand ort 18I.U August, and leave about Ist October—Aus -N.Z Cable Assoc.

The members of the New Plymouth Women's Patriotic Committee at a muting this week paid a tribute of respecc to the memory of the late Mrs Farglo, and decided to send a letter of sympathy to Mr Fargie in his bereavement.

The death is announced of Captain Tucker, formerly member of the Legislative Council. He arrived at Gisborne in 1866, and participated in the Maori war. Besides being twice Mayor of Guborne and chairman of various local bodies, he was an extensive land holder.

Mr James Joseph Mulvey, of Wellingon, and late of New Plymouth, hag been elected a member of the Post and Tele-. graph Promotion Board under the Post and Telegraph Department Act, 1918. He obtained 3501 votes against 950 cast for Mr James Aitken, of Wanganui. Mr A. H. Halcombe, of Urenui, has been advised by cable from London, that his brother, Major Norman M. Halcombe, of the Royal Air Force, waa dangerously ill with influenza at Cairo. Major Halcombe is well known in North Taranaki. He was in America at the outbreak of the war, working as an electrical engineer, and enlisted for service, being drafted to the Royal Engineers.

Mr J. H. Menssies, of Menzies* Bay, Hanks Peninsula, is dead. The late Mr Menzies was bom in Cheshire, England, eighty years ago, and received hU education partly in London and partly it the Edinburgh University. Fifty-elght years ago he came out to Now Zealand and followed farming pursuits in Souto' land. Later he farmed in various part* of Southland and Canterbury, but dur"iff the last five years he had lived in retirement at Cashmere.

A London correspondent of the Hawke s Bay Tribune describes how S«--cond-Lmi.tenant Leslie Cecil Lloyd of Auckland, won the Military Cross. When all the other officers of fo wm . Pany became casualties, early in the attack, Lieutenant Avorill took command and led the men forward, to the objective, where, in spite of heavy fire from the enemy, he consolidated with great skill His personal gallantry and cheerfulness greatly encouraged his men, and his capable handling cobtriouted to our success. Miss Itita Strack, li.Ss., at present on ii. staif of li. W .r« strict HShSj lias been appointed instructress in Do-' mes icScienee under the Auckland JSd„. cat*. Hoard in Hamilton. Miss Straek after matr eulating at Uawera Set Hig,i fechool, went to Melbourne for two years, and gained her diploma in home Mieiice under the Victorian Education Lepartment. For three year. Mta. Miack was then instructor under th„ Uaiigaiuii Education Board, after which she attended the University at Dunedin for three years and gained her degree as

A London cable states that members of the New Zealand party suffered from lie prevailing i n «»cn» epidemic m London. Sir Joseph Ward was indisposed for several days Lad.v Ward, who is still m London, was also indisposed. Mr Thompson, his secretary, had a .harp attack for a week. Mr iviley the Press correspondent, who had a relapse, had been medicallv attended for ten days. Both are now' almost recovered. Other members of the party are all well. Mrs and Miss Massey are now m Paris. '

Mr Sydney Mair, in a presidential address to the Society of Civil Engineers favorably reviewed Mr Hurst Seagar's proposal for a great memorial road from Auckland to Bluff H e said th<lt ° ni crete road 18ft. wide would involve a capital of £0,000,000. The supgeition provided a national and economic memorml and was quite within our means. He trusted that it would receive the support not only of individuals, but 0 f representatives of societies.—Pre M Assoc. Lieutenant-Colonel Ivan X. Standlah C.M-G., D&O., Royal New Zealand Artillery, arrived iu New Plymouth on Mo», day night, being on a short furlough after returning from England by thiinton a week or two ago. Colonel Stana»h is an old boy ot the Boy"' HHi School., the pupils of which were present at tiie railway stahon in strong force on Monday night. Colonel Standiah, who is only about 35 yearn of age, is the tot native of the district to receive the conferment of Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George He tot served in South Africa, when quite a lad' and on returning to New Zealad joined the permanent artillery. As a lieutenant he was Bent to England for training at M Aldershot, and when war broke out in w K>l4 he was stationed with the artillery at Palmeraton North, with the rank of captain. He left New Zealand, in the artillery, with the temporary rank of Major, and served at Gallipoli (where he received the D.S.O), in Egypt and iri I'rnnce. Colonel Standish'i wife and two children returned on the Briton with him, and they go shortly to Wellington, where Colonel Standish expects to bf stationed for a time. '