PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 February 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Miss Violet Foot has been appointed by the Eltham Borough Council as assistant in the gas show room. At the election to fill the vacancy in the Waverley Riding of the Patea County Council, Mr. James Walker was elected. Colonel D. S. Wylie, C.M.G., C.B.E, who was recently appointed Inspector of Hospitals, will pay an official visit to New Plymouth to-morrow. At a recent meeting of the Hawera Town Planning Association it was decided to recommend the Borough Council to name two streets after the Hawera V.C.'s., Lieutenants Grant and Laurent. The deaths occurred at Hastings last week, both of appendicitis, of Mr. A. G. Campbell, accountant of the Bank of New Zealand, and Mr. H. T. Reee, manager of the National Bank. At a meeting of the four Taranaki A. and P. Societies held at Stratford, on Tuesday. February 3, "Mr. W. R. Grant, president of the Taranaki A. and P. Society, was recommended for appointment by His Excellency the Go--ernor-General to the Board of Agriculture, in the place of Air. 0. Hawkin. The Rev. J. W. Simmonds, Principal of Wesley College, Auckland, and the Rev. H. L. Blamires, chairman of the Taranaki - Wanganui district for the Methodist Church, were passengers for the south by the express on Saturday. Mr. Simmonds is travelling in connection with a scheme for raising funds for a new Maori College at Auckland, and Mr Blamires has been making an official visit to New Plymouth and other North Taranaki centres.