PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. S. G. Smith, M.P., will arrive in New Plymouth by the mail train this evening for the week-end.

There died at Greymouth this week one of the band of pioneers who landed on the West Coast in the early days, namely, Mr. William Cunliffe, brotherin.law of the late Right Hon. R. J. Saddon. Deceased was for over 40 years employed in the Greymouth Despatch. Foundry Company. He leaves a widow uiid nine song and daughters. . Mr. 11. S. M. Quigley, at present headmaster ot Tapapakuku school and secretary of the Dannevirke branch of the Huwke's Hay War Relief Association, was yesterday appointed joint secretary of the Danuevirke A. and P. Association pud the Dannevirke Provincial Farmers' Union, at a salary of' £4OO per annum. There were 73 applications.—Press Assoc. Mr. Selwyn Wilson, District Government Land Valuer at Xew Plymouth, has tendered his resignation and'intendttk entering into the land agency buJinesw* at \\ hftkatnne. During the last six . months (juite a number of Government ofik'i.ils have resigned for the purpose of entering into business on their own account.

Captain ,T. W. Andrew, Y.C., was given n civic welcome at Wanganui yesturdav. Thefe was a large gathering of the public anil complimentary speeches were made by the Mayor, Colonel Cunningham (commander of the battalion vn which Captain Andrew was attached when he won the Vand Major Ait• ken. Suitable, replies were made by Captain Andrew and his father.

One of the earliest settlers of Hawera. Mr. Josiah Fake, who first saw the «it.i of Hawera over forty years ago and has lived here continuously for over thirty, has sold out and retired to live in Auck. land, and probably in Sydney later on (says the Star). It will' be of interest to learn that when Mr. Fake came first to ' Wellington bricklayers were getting only lis per day. He eaine to Taranaki to prospect, but, finding that conditions were not good, lie returned to Wellington, and from there went to try his luck in Sydney. He worked at his trade for some time, and then returned to Wellington, later on coming to Taranaki and settling in Hawera. He has seen Hawera grow from a very small and primitive township to the fine town of the present day.