PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 January 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Sir Francis Newdegate, Governor of Tasmania, succeeds Sir Ellison Macartney as Governor of Western Australia.

A cable from Sydney reports the death, of Richard Tres9ider, ex-champion sculler.

Mr. L. C. Sladden has been re-appoint-ed chairman of the Board of Governor* of the New Plymouth High Schools. Mr. and ,Mrs. J. R. Cruiokshank, whq have been on a visit to England, returned to New Plymouth by the Rarawa yesterday.

Mr Robert Masters, M.P., left by the mail train yesterday morning for Wellington, where, it is understood, he will attend a meeting of the Liberal Party. The Rev. 0. J. Kimberley, secretary to the New Zealand Church Missionary Society, has accepted the position of general secretary to the New Zealand Board of Missions.

Mrs. Margaret Robertson, who died at Auckland last week, at the age of 77, was one of the early settlers of Auckland, having arrived about 60 years ago in the ship Norma Hall. She was married in Auckland, and lived the greater part of her life in the city. Senior-Sergeant Stagpoole, of the N.Z. Police, who is well-known in N*ew Plymouth, and who for some years has been in charge of the Oamaru'district, is retiring from the force at the end of the present month, and intends settling down in New Plymouth.

Miss Maida Hooker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. O. Hooker, of HaWera, is' to go to the Conservatorium, Sydney, ty study piano and singing. She will be, under the tuition of Mr. Frank Hutchens, for the p"iano. It will be remembered that she won an exhibition in 1»I4 awarded to a candidate gaining highest marks in the cxamini'tion held by th»\ Associated Board of R.A.M. * and R.C.M., London. Owing to the war she was unable to go to London to take ad] vantage of the scholarship. She will leave for Sydney on February 18, She) has done so well since as a child she} started studying, and later at the Timi aru Convent, that she is certain tq make good at the Conservatorium-A Star. 1 Mr. J. G. McGregor, of New Plymouth who has recently been transferred to th 3 position of postmaster at Awakino, wai a very earnest worker in St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church wjiile here, ami prior to leaving for his new appoint* ment he and Mrs. McGregor were ten* dered a farewell, social by the congrega* tion of St. Andrew's. Mr. and Mrs. Mci Gregor had been associated with the church for the past ten years, and served in many different capacities. Mr Mc< Gregor frequently filled the breach when, there was no organist, and he also ed as a manager, and later as an elden Mr. McGregor also came to the assist* ance of St. Andrew's Sunday School at a critical period, giving up a private and undenominational school held in his own house at Vogeltown to lake up tha work for St. Andrew's. These and other matters were the subject of special tei ference by the Rev. 0. Blundell in mak< ing a presentation to Mr. and Mrs Mc* Gregor of an electroplated cake basket and a butter-dish. .Other officials of tha church also eulogised the work of Mr. McGregor, and expressed the sense o* loss felt by the congregation at his removal to Awakino.' During the evening a number of musical items were given, the instrumental trios by Mrs. Frcdcrio (piano), Messrs. R. H. Rockel (violin) and Rob. Rockel ('cello) being highly «P< precjated, •-