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Taranaki Daily News, 21 May 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The Frankley Road School Committee lias selected Mr. A. B.- Sim, of Ngaere, to be its teacher. A Wellington wire reports that Major Percy De B- (Brandon has been appointed Hansard supervisor. A Perth cablegram states that Mr. Clutha Mackenzie, son of the High Commissioner for New Zealand, is w>rd Jellicoe's guest on bt>ard the New Zealand. Sergeant M. Bellerby, M.M., of Gisborne, was a member of the Stus, and secured his decoration at Messines. He was not wounded. Chaplain-Major Mitchell, who has been away with the Expeditionary (Faroes for a considerable time, has returned to New Zealand, and is at present spending a few days in Hawera. Private A. Walker, M.M., of QlflWrne, left with the Seconds, and won hla decoration at Bapaume. He was neither ill nor wounded during the period of service. Owing to the death from influenza of the Melbourne manager of the Ridd Milking Machine Company, it has become necessary for Mr. R. Cock, director, and Mr. Reg. George, secretary of the company, to proceed to Melbourne immediately. Arrangements have been mad* for them to travel by the Orissa to Newcastle, and thence to Melbourne. They will therefore leave New Plymouth by the vessel this morning. Mrs. Susan Adlington, who died at Auckland on Monday, at the age of eighty-nine, had resided in New Zealand for fifty-two years. She arrived in Auckland by the ship Maori, with her husband, the late Mr. Robert Adlington, 'and a family of four, on January 24, 1867. Mr. and Mrs. Adlington were engaged in farming in the Whangarel district for many years up to the time of Mr. Adlington's death in 1893. The Sydney Sun publishes an article from London on the work of tha Light Horse, in which complimentary reference is made to Brigadier-General Sir Edward Chaytor, of New Zealand. It says: "Perhaps he has been the finest Divisional Commander of the war. A clean, honest soldier, a great leader of men. The Light Horse was proud to serve under Chaytor." < Lieutenant David Hunter Blair, a grandson of the late Mr. R. H. Rhodes, of Elmwood, Christchurch, was amongst the British prisoners recently repatriated from Germany. Lieutenant Blair was captured early in the war, and during liis long imprisonment he studied German and Russian with such good effect that he was able to pass examinations in both languages on his return to England. He has now been appointed major attached to the Intelligence Department. Mr. A. P. Lowe, clerk to the House of Representatives, has been appointed to succeed Mr. Leonard Stows, C.M.G., on- the latter's retirement. He ■will, however, remain as Clerk of the House until after the n°xt session, and in the meantime the other position will be filled by Mr. A. T Bothamley (clerk Assistant of the Council). Mr. Lowe entered the service of the House as an extra clerk in 1885, and has hbcii through all the grades of the service. In 11)15 he was appointed Clerk of the House on the retirement of Mf. Henry Otterson, C.M.G. He has gone through forty sessions during the time he Has been on the Parliamentary staff. Captain Adam Ilouldsby, of Liverpodl, New South Wales, aged 103 years and; 3 months, died .recently. He was born at South Shields, Ncwcastle-on-Tyne, on January 23, 181(5, nud> served his apprenticeship in the shipwrights' trade, and was afterwards oh a number of sailing vessel's on the North Sea. He arrived in Sydney in 1855. He had been a resident of Liverpool for 40 years, and up to tKe'.nge ef 98. lie was engaged building cottages solely by his own labor.