PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 September 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL.

, Sir George Buchanan, formerly Ambassador to Petrograd, has been- appointed Ambassador to Italy.—Press Assoc. Police Constable W. S. Phillips has arrived in New Plymouth for duty, on transfer from Wellington. Mr. J. H. Smith was yesterday- reelected chairman of directors of the Waitara Dairy Company; Captain Eliot King, of the.Royal Air Force, arrived in Now Plymouth by the mail train on Tuesday night.

Mrs. Still, of Vogeltown, has received word that her spn, Private L. J. Still, is returning to New Zealand by th% Adolph Woermann, due iu Wellington on the 2Sth inst,

Mrs. R, Giddy, Corbctt Road, has received word that her son, Corporal E. F. Giddy, is returning by H M.T. Adolph Woermann, due in Wellington on or about September 28. The Rev. A. D. Stratford has resigned his cure of the tipper Hutt Parish, and has been succeeded by the Rev. N. S. Bar'nett, vicar of Patea. Mr. Stratford is now on his way to England. A veteran of the Maori war, Mr. Alfred Black, died at Buckland a day or two ago, at the age of 76 years. He arrived at Lyttelton in 1803 on the Zealandia. On the outbreak of the Maori war in Taranaki he joined the volunteer military settlers, and took part in most of the engagements in the early sixties, obtaining a war medal for h's services.

At an informal meeting of the officials of the New Plymouth Methodist Circuit, it was decided to invite the Rev. J. F. Martin, at present of Pukekoho, to succeed the Rev. H I* Richards as second minister in the circuit. Mr. Martin has signified his willingness to accept, and subject to ratification by the Church Courts, the appointment will take effect in April next. Mr. L. G. Hill, a returned officer, has been appointed secretary and organiser to the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Welfare League Mr. Hill, who before the war was a well-known Taranaki representative footballer, left with the Main Force as a private in the Auckland Battalion, and served in Egypt, Gallipoli, and France, and on the Rhine. He received his commission in the field in 1917, and returned to New Zealand by the transport Prinzcssin last month.

The death is announced by private cable message of Mr. W. J. Luckie, fourth son of the late Mr. <H, M. Luckie, for many years Commissioner of the Government Life' Insurance, and brother of Mr. M. F. Luckie, solicitor and city councillor, of Wellington. For 6ome years deceased was engaged in mining pursuits in Kalgoorlie and C'oolgardie, and eventually went with the West Australian contingent to Gallipoli, whence he was invalided back to Australia. He died at Westonia, West Australia, where he had been engaged in farming. He was 47 years of age and unmarried. The news of the sudden death of Mr. J. K. Law at his farm on the Arawhata Road, Oaonui, on Tuesday will be received with regret by a large circle of friends and old pupils. For many yeaisj he was in charge of the Manaia school, where he did splendid work. He had a lofty conception of the duties of a schoolmaster, and he labored to enrry his ideals into effect and had much to do with the formation of the character, as well as the training of the minds, of the youth of the Plains. He was a man of generous instincts, and did much good in an unassuming way. Some nine years ago he accepted the headmastership of the Aramoho school, and was about to retire on superannuation. He leaves a widow and a married daughter. He was only 60 years of age. Of late his health was indifferent, and heart failure was the immediate cause of death.