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Taranaki Daily News, 8 December 1919, Page V

PERSONAL.

t!i^ r ' r, • Eelcner > chairman of the iutham County Council, spent the week end in New Plymouth. Mr. A. H. Johnstone arrived in New Plymouth from Auckland on Saturday night. J Mr. Perrin, dispenser at the New Plymouth Hospital, is spending his annual » ol % s in Auckland and Rotorua, Mr a. ORmlly relieving him. Sir Robert Stout (Chief Justice) armed from Wellington on Saturday night, to preside, over the Supreme Court sessions which open in New Plymouth this morning. At the annual meeting of the Hawera County Council, held on Saturday, Mr. J. Hawken was unanimously elected chairman for the ensuing year. The chairman's honorarium was fixed at £IOO for his past year's service. The death occurred at Vogeltown yesterday of Mr. James Spenco, an old settler, at the age of 78. For manv years he was a member of the staff of "Messrs Okey and Rollo, engineers, retiring from active work some years ago. Ho was a prominent Freemason, being a Pastmaster of Mount Egmont Lodge. He leaves a widow and a grown up family. Lieut.-Colonel G. Home, 0.8. E., of New Plymouth, accompanied bv Mrs. Home and Miss Jessie Home, are on the Rimu-taK-a, which is due at Wellington on Dev, • r „ 2r - Col °nel Home left with the Mam Body, and after seeing service on fcrallipoli he went .to England, where he spent jnost of the time on the staff of the New Zealand Hospital at Walton Mis* Jessie Home drove a motor ambulance attached to the Walton Hospital