PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 August 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The King has made Marshal Fooh a British Field-Marshal. Generals Sir E. H. H. Allenby and Sir H. C. 0. Plumer have been raised to the rank of Field-Marshal.—Cable message. Mr. T. S. Bowler was on Saturday re-elected chairman of directors of tho Moa Dairy Company. Mr. Edward Hickling, city valuer at Auckland, is dead. He was sixty-two years of age. The impending retirement of the Rey, W. E. Gillara, vicar of St. Matthew'i, Auckland, is announced Mr. GiUam has been in charge of the"parish for nearly twenty years. A Dunedin telegram says it is under' stod that Bishop Neville has resigned the See of Dunedin, to take effect from December 31 next. Cable advice, has been received that Major-General Chaytor has gone to England prior to his return to New Zealand. It is expected he will succeed General Sir A. Robin on his return. On Friday the staff of the Hawera branch of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company made a presentation to Mr. 0 J. Shanahan, who U leaving the company's employ to entw iuto business with Mr. R. Morrissey. A London cable states that 'the Rt, | Hon. R. MeKenna, at one time Chancellor of the Exchequer, but who was defeated at tho last election, is retiring from politics. He succeeds the late Sir Edward Holden as chairman of the Loodon City and Midland: Bank. Mr. Thoe. Drake, of Inglewpod, has received word that his son, Trooper Thos. W. Drake, is returning to New Zealand by the H.M.T. Cordoba, which is due to arrive at Wellington on or about August 30. Trooper Drake left with the Bth Reinforcements.

The death occurred at the New Plymoui.li yesterday of Mr. Jonathan Blytli, an old resident of New Plymouth, who for many years was in business as a diaper, but for some yearn past had been living.in retirement. Deceased, who had been a prominent business man in Melbourne, where he suffered considerable financial loss during the land boom, arrived in New Plymouth about 2fl years ago, and commenced business in Devon Street on the site now occupied hy Messrs. S. B. White and Son, who purchased the property on his retirement about flftocn years ago. Ho was a prominent Freemason, and a splendid entertainer. He is survived hy a son (who served on Gallipoli and in France) and two daughters. His wife predeceased him by some years.