PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 January 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL.

_ Mr. A. Alexander returned from Wellington by last night's mail train. The Rev. J. Napier Milne returned from Wellington by the, mail train last night.

Mr. W. Hardham, V.C., has been appointed manager of the Wellington Returned Soldiers' Club, vice Mr. W. J. Callender, who is about to go on the land.

Mr. Clinkard, a member of the Board of Trade, will arrive in New Plymouth on Monday. While here Mr. Clinkard will go into several commercial questions, r

The Wellington Education Board has decided to award the Heckler Scholarship to Robert L. C. Grant, eon of the late Rev. Wm. Grant, Chaplain to the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces at one time, who was killed at Gallipoli.

Mr. B. J. Esam, who has been connected with the Government Valuation Office in Auckland for 20% years, and for many years has held the position of Senior District Valuer in Auckland, has been superannuated. His retirement was marked by presentations from bath the valuing and clerical staffs.

G. B. Shepherd, secretary of the Native Land Purchase Board, and' formerly a member of the Magistrate's Court staff at New Plymouth, left for Wellington by the mail train yesterday morning, after a few days spent in New Plymouth renewing old acquaintances.

The Rev. Father Arkwright, who has been in charge of the parish of St. Joseph's, Eltham, for tie past two vears, and is about to be. transferred to the Kaikoura parish, is to be entertained at a farewell social. He is to be succeeded in Eltham by the Bev. Father Moore, who is coming from Ohura.—Argus. Adjutant and Mrs Bayliss, the newlv appointed Salvation Army officers to New. Plymouth, arrived last night. The members of the local corps, with the band, turned out to the railway station to greet their officers and escorted them to the Army Hall, where a very cordial welcome was extended to them. Miss Mary Rundle, matron of the Dilwortb. Ulster Institute, died suddenly at Christchurch last Friday. The deceased lady, who was in her fiftieth year, came to New Zealand from England at the age of seven. After living for many years with her parents at Ashburton, 'Miss Rundle joined the staff of the Wellington Receiving Home, of which she was matron for seven years. This position she relinquished in June, 1914, when she was appointed to the control of the Dilworth Institute.

Dr. Rex Brewster, who,has just returned from the war, is to resume practice in New Plymouth, having purchased the Devon Street property belonging to Dr. Wylie. Dr. Brewster, who is a New Plymouth boy, qualified as M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. in 1309, and .later gained the F.'R.C.S. at Edinburgh. He subsequently held several hospital positions, and in IBM returned to New Zealand, where he practised for 18 months. He enlisted in 1915, and saw a good deal of service in TCgypt and Palestine, where he gained the Military Cross for gallantry shown in the Eeersheba operations. After the armistice he joined the troops sent to GalHpoli as medical officer, lie afterwards did post graduate hospital work in England, and came out as chief medical officer on the troopship Kigoma.