PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 January 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A cable from London says General Sir William Birdwood has been gazetted Lord Birdwood of Anzac and Totres. Mr. Frank Amoore, Mayor of Whakatane, is at present on a short holiday visit to New Plymouth. A cable from Sydney says that Cabinet has appointed Alderman Richards Lord Mayor. i Mr. W. J. Guerin, sub-editor of tho Wellington Evening Post, is at present on a visit to Opunake. and is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. A. O'Brien.

Dr. W. R. Wade leaves for Wellington by the mail train this morning, to meet Dr. Home, who will arrive back in New Zealand by the Rimutaka, due on Sunday. Mr. Murdoch, of Hawera, and Mr. Dempster, of the Government Dairy Department, who have been to Europe in connection with the dairying business, are returning by the Tofua, and are due to reach Wellington on 2nd January,

The Opunake Times records the death of Mrs. Robert Affleck, an old resident of the district. Besides her husband, a family of four sons and three daughters are left to mourn the los 3 of a devoted wife and mother.

Mr. E. Sargent, son of Mr. R. W. Sargent, Hawera, who has been in England for some years, is returning by the Bremen, due shortly. Mr. Sargent, during his residence in England, passed all the examinations which qualified him as an optician, aud he also served during the war.

Mi\ Eric Arnold Rowe, M.Sc., formerly of the New Plymouth High School staff, who was awarded the 1851 Exhibition Scholarship, has left for Australia to catch the Orient liner Ormonde for London, where he will spend the next two years in scientific research, at the University of London. Mr. H. D. Forsyth, chairman of tha Eltham Dairy Company, who Las been visiting Europe and America in connection with the dairying industry and the dried milk proposals, is returning on the Kigoma, due to reach Wellington on 6tli January. He is accompanied by Mr. R. Boyle, manager of the Eltham factory. The death is announced of Mr. F. A, Macdonald, stock inspector and noxious weeds inspector for the Pahiatua district. Mr Macdonald, who went to that district a little over six months ago from Inglewood, had been in ill-health for about a month as the result of a long-standing heart affection, and the end was not unexpected.

To have been a Sunday school teacher for thirty-eight years is a claim which can be made by few people. Such, however, is the proud record of Mr. William Bruce, of Wanganui, who has been associated with St. .Paul's Presbyterian Sunday school for that long period. What makes his record the more commendable is the fact that for over a quarter of a century he was superintendent of this important Sunday school. Rumor in the south points to Sir James Allen as the probable successor to Sir Thomas Mackenzie as High Commissioner. Mr. James Begg is mentioned as the Government candidate for Bruce in the event of Sir James Allen receiving the appointment. On the matter being mentioned to the Prime Minister, he was unable to make any definite statement on the subject, further than that the matter had not yet been dealt with by Cabinet. He pointed out, however, that Sir Thomas Mackenzie was entitled to four months' notice when his services were no longer required in London, and no such notice had yet been given.