PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 February 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr Arthur Morton returned from Wellington by tlie mail train lost night. Mrs T. H. Pellew has received advice I hut her >on. Private W. L. Pellew arrives by the Hororata on March 13. Corporal Cyril J. White, of Auckland, is at present visiting relatives in New Plymouth. Lieutenant S. Frickleton, V.C., New Zen laud Hide Brigade, has been appointed Assistant Provost Marshal, Wellington Military District. In the latest hospital list published Lance-corporal A. Mather (Tariki) is reported still dangerously ill, but improving. Mr C. O TTawke, New Plymouth, has received advice that his son, Private F. lv Hawke, is arriving in Auckland on March sth by the transport Port Melbourne. Mr P. S. Whitcomlbe received word yesterday that his son Percy, who for s.nne months has been in England, undergoing special training and so missed the later stages of the - fighting in France, is returning home and will reach the Dominion about March 13. Mr F. Walsh. St. Anbyn Street, has received advice from Ease Records that Ins son. .Tack, is returnins; to New Zealand with Draft No. *2*2 l. due to arrive at Wellington on March 13, after four years on active service. Mr W. E. Evans, who has occupied the position of postman in Ashburton for the past sixteen years, will retire on superannuation from the sen-ice of the Postal Department on Saturday next. During his forty years' service as mail-, carrier—he was stationed in Christchurch before going to Ashburton he claims to have walked a distance of over 1/50,000 miles in the performance of his official duties. Word has been received by Mrs Gordon Glassford, of Ihakara, that her brother, Captain Norman Marshall Halcombe, of the Royal Air Force, has died at Cairo of influenza. The late Captain Halcombe was a son of Mr A. Follett Haleombe, one of the founders of the Manchester settlement, the district of which Feilding is now the centre. Captain Haleombe was married only a few days before his death. Mr P. Versehaffelt, who has been secretary to the Public Service Commission for the past five years, has been appointed controller of the wills division of the Public Trust Office. Consequent upon the war and the recent epidemic, this branch of the Public Trust Office has had to cope with a heavy flood of work, which has pressed hard upon the staff. So far there has beef no announcement made as to who will succeed to the position of secretary to the Public Service Commissioner.

T\V} appointments lifivo just boon made to the icaehina: staff at the Xmv Plymouth Boys' High School. Mr A. Diprose R.A.. who was a master of the school before the war and recently returned to Now Zealand after lieini; wounded in Franca, Will resume duty. Mr J. W. Tliiitnri, MSe.. of Ot.atro, is the other appointee Tie took hisM.Sc. (l»'?ree with first-class honors in physical science, and won the Beverly scholarship in advanced phvsica. hut r«s».'iind the fatter to take the senior university scholarship for New Zealand In electricity and magnetism. He was also nominated for the Rhodes scholarship. Mr TTinton was for two years demonstrator in practical physics at Otnco University and resigned that, position "on to rnmn. t-Te returned from the front not long ago.