PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 January 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. W. K. Haselden, of the firm ot O'Dea, Haselden and Bayley, solicitors) Hawera, has returned to Hawera after a, two months' holiday. : Mr. F. C. Millward, secretary of the Wanganui Harbor Board intimated] to his board on Friday last that he taf tended resigning on account of the Stat* of his health. '

Mr. Gilbert Simpson, formerly manager of the Bruce Woollen Mills, left for England by the Arawa on Saturday, lie will purchase the necessary machinery for the new Masterton Mills, of which he was recently appointed manager.

Prior to the business of the Education Board yesterday, congratulations ware offered by the members to Mr. R. Mas< ters (chairman of the Board) on his election to Parliament. A similar compliment was paid Mr. S. G. Smith upon his success at the recent general election. Both members suitably responded. Mr. 11. H. Allison, M.A., has been api pointed Rector of the Greymouth District High School, subject to the confirmation of the Education Board. Mr. Allison was for some years headmaster of the Kaikoura District High School, afterwards becoming headmaster at West. Lyttelton,

Lieut-Commander Rowland Bourke,. V.C., D.5.0., Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, will arrive in New Plymouth this evening and stay the week. end. An effort is being made by the local branch of the Navy League to arrange for the distinguished visitor to give a lecture o4 the "Glories of Zeebrugge" on Mondajj evening. / One of the most expert wireless oper> ators in the world, Arthur Sawyer, ofi New Zealand, goes to the Antarctic, wittf the Cope Expedition. In earlier day* he was with the New Zealand TelegrapH Department. Then he went with Suf Douglas Mawson's wireless plant to Macquarrio Island. When war came, he was unable to pass the recruiting officers at Home, so he went to India, where they know a thing or two about an army's requirements, and did strenuous work with the wireless in Mesopotamia.

The Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald, who has been visiting Rotorua for rest and} treatment, recently experienced a very! serious turn. Mrs Mac Donald wai telegraphed for, travelling from the Bay of Plenty to Rotorua as quickly as pos» sible. There has been much improvement in Mr. Mac Donald's condition. The state of Mr. Mac Donald's health has Been occasioning the members of lub family considerable anxiety for some time past. He has never been quite himself since he broke his arm, and the exactions o? the recent election campaign told a great deal upon him in the unsatisfactory state of his health.

Mrs Susan Kirkwood, wife of Mr. John Kirkwood, senr., of Oaonui, whrf passed away on Sunday last, was 75 years of age, a native of Treban, in the North of Ireland, and came to New Zealand well over 40 years ago in the ship Glenhora. Landing at Wellington, tho deceased and her family went on to the South Island, where some years were spent. About 1878 <me moved to Oaonui. She was the mother of eight children, of whom seven survive, namely, Messrs J. and H. Young and J. Kirkwood (Oaonui), Mrs J. Morrison (Patea). Mm N. Simpson (Oaonui), Mrs B P Malcolm (Opunake), and Mrs A Langton (Opunake). The deceased leaves in nil forty-two grandchildren, and sevengreat grandchildren.—Times.