PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 February 1920, Page 6

PERSONAL.

cm a?' Hudson ' Deputy-Commis-sioner and Secretary of the .Government Life Insurance. Department, lias retired irom the service on superannuation. At Manaia on Mondav the marriage was ce ebrated of Mr. E. R. Wells, son of J,,, ,' T \ ) Vells > to Miss Bessie MitcheH, daughter of Mrs. E. A. Mitchell. Rev. G. Castles, of Eltham, officiated. Mr P. Black, borough curator in Palmerston North, has been invited by the Minister of External Affairs to accompany the Parliamentary party to Samoa and to report to the Government on tropical gardening in ,the islands visited. Appointments of members of the Taranalu Land Purchase Board, fop a period ot two years, have been gazetted as follow:—James Francis Stevenson, of Manaia; William Brooks Grant, of New Plymouth; Leslie Hamilton, of Manutarn. Mr. H. Hector Bolitho, en Auckland writer who has published several books on various parts of New Zealand, passed through New Plymouth yesterday. Mr. Bolitho is under engagement by the Wangamu Borough Council to write a book on that district. Mr. L. p. Guibh, a teacher in the Nelson Boys' Central School, chairman of the Nelson Labor party, a prominent figure in the no-license movement, and ex-organiser of the Auckland Teachers' Institute, has died from influenza. He has left a widow and five children.

Captain Arthur Anthony, formerly of the Union Company's service, and late of the Melbourne pilot staff, died recently at the Victorian capital. He entered the Union Company's employ in 1886, and the Victorian pilot service in WOO. He had command of the Tekapo, Tarawera, Rotokino, Dingade?, Pukaki Mahinapua, and Kawatiri. '