PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 February 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. W. G. Gardener, town clerk at Petone, has received the appointment of secretary to the Wanganui Harbor Board.

Dr. Walker, who has been spending a holiday in the South Island, returned to S"cw Plymouth last night. He was accompanied by Mrs. Walker. Inspector Hendry, of Wanganni, arrived in New Plymouth' by the mail train last night. Messrs E. Whittle and T. Ciormley have been appointed to represent Taranaki on the general executive committee of the New Zealand Licensed Victuallers' Association.

A message from Vancouver states that Lord Bending lias been offered the Ambassadorship to the United States, hut has definitely declined (he post, winch was oil'ered to Sir Auckland <!eddes, who did not accept it.

A cable from London announces the death of Mr. Spencer Leigh Hughes, the. well-known journalist, and M.P. for Stockport fiinco 3010. He was a distinguished Parliamentary journalist and his column in the London Daily News under the non de plume of "Sub Rosa," had a wide circle of readers.

Mr. II- W- Kelly, at present manager of the Wanganui branch of the New Zealand Insurance Company, succeeds Mr. H. M. Didsbury as manager in Dunedin. The vacancy at Wanganui is to be filled by Mr. Noel Nelson, who recently returned from Singapore, where he acted as relieving manager for some time.

The trustees of the Cawthron Institute have, appointed Miss Kathleen Curtis, .of Auckland, as mycologist (says a telegram from Nelson). Had she not been engaged she wouli have returned to England on the invitation of the Board of Agriculture to make researches into potato disease. The Revs. .T. Napier Milne and H. L. Richards, and Mr. ,1. T. Griffin, delegates from New Plymouth to the Methodist Church Conference at Auckland, leave for the north by to-night's boat. Mr. VY. Ambury, who is also a delegate, expects to leave by train to-morrow morning.