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Taranaki Daily News, 29 September 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Me3srs S. G. Smith and W. T. Jennings, M'sP., arrived in New Plymouth by the mail train on Saturday night. Mr. E. P. Lee, M.P, for Oamaru, is a visitor to New Plymouth, arriving here by mail train on Saturday night.

It is announced at Victoria, 8.C., that the Prince of Wales will leave for Washington on October 11.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Asaoc.

Second-Lieut. T. H. Sissons, who left the position of third assistant at the Central School to go on active service in October, 1916, is returning to New Zealand (by the transport lonic, due at Wellington on October 23. Messrs A. Corkill, chairman of the Moa Road Board, and R. Buckley, clerk, who have been to Wellington on business connected with the proposed Moa County, returned to Inglewood by the mail train on Saturday.

Lieut Sutherland, son of Major Sutherland, of Manaia, has accepted an appointment in the Indian army, and leaves by the Rivcrina. Lieut. Sutherland attended the-New Plymouth High School, afterwards going .to Duntroon Military College in New South Wales. Messrs H. Trimble and P. J. H. White, members of the Taranaki Board of Education, together with Mr. P. S. Whitcombe, secretary, who have been attending the Education Boards' conference in Wellington, arrived home by the mail train on Saturday night. A Rotorua wire states that General and Lady Russell arrived on Saturday evening and were enthusiastically received by the returned soldiers, who, preceded by the band, dragged the carriage to the Grand Hotel and heartily cheered the General and his wife and sang "For they are jolly good fellows." The resident officer (Mr. Hill) officially welcomed General Russell, who expressed high appreciation of the benefit the soldiers were receiving from their treatment at Rotoma and the kindness extended by the people towards them. The friends of Trooper W. McHugh on the Waimate Plains will be glad to hear of his intention to return to that district as soon as he can settle his business affairs in Canada. Mr. A. E. Sykes met him on board the Royal George, returning from England to Halifax with the Canadian forceß. He had joined ub with a specialists company and had seen several years' service. He desired to be remembered to old friends, and expressed the opinion that there was no district which so attracted him as the PJains, and he hoped to return to Manaia at an early date. His mother had been very actively engaged in war work in Canada. Mr. A. Page, who recently resigned his position as accountant on the borough clerical staff in order to take up a position with Messrs J. Chambers and Sons, of Auckland, was on Saturday the recipient of a presentation from the clerical staffs of the town clerk's office, the electrical department, and the borough engineer's office. Mr. F. T. Bellringer, who made the presentation, which consisted of a handsome travelling rug, referred in eulogistic terras to the good work performed by the recipient during the two years he had held the position of borough accountant, and expressed best wishes for his success in his new sphere of activity. Speeches in similar strain were also made by Messrs W, H. Cook (borough engineer), R. H. Bartley (electrical engineer), and R. Day (borough inspector).