PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 February 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Inspector W. Hendry, who was in New Plymouth on Tuesday on Police Department business, returned to Wanganni yesterday morning. At a meeting of the Federated Ass£>cir.tion of Newspaper Proprietors of New Zealand Mr. Fred Pirani was re-eleeted president, and the officers and committee were also re-elected.

Mr. Newton King, chairman of the New Plymouth Harbor Board, left by the mail train yesterday morning for Wellington on business connected with tlm Harbor Board.

Sir Joseph Ward and Lady Ward leave InveiC j-gill for Christehureh ts-dfty, and proceed to Wellington on Friday (says a telegram from Invercargill), They will probably leave for Australia within a few days to spend a month with friends in the Commonwealth.

Mr. F J. Stewart, assistant clerk to t!ie Auckland Magistrate's Court, who has been connected with the Auckland courts for nearly thirty years, lied this week. Members of the bench, bar and police, numbering over one hundred, assembled at court, when glowing tributes were paid to the deceased. He leaves a widow and young family.

The Patea Press reports the death of Rifleman T. C. Richards, another of the gallant band of young New Zealanders who obeyed their country's call in the late war. The late Rifleman Richard* was a nephew of Mrs. C. Balmforth, of Manutahi, and a brother of Rifleman Godfrey Richards, who also made the supreme sacrifice during the war.

Mr Win. Quee, of Hawera, died early yesterday morning, at his residence in Princes street (reports the Star). The deceased was engaged in business ns a sign writer.- He was about 42 years of nge, and is supposed to have been a single man. Mr. Quee was a cricketer of some merit, and at one time represented AVellington in inter-provincial cricket.

Mr. C. R. Fail-brother, who for the last eight years lias been auctioneer for Mr. Newton King at New Plymouth, is severing his connection with Mr. King as from March 17th. Mr. Joe Pickering, of the motor department of the firm, has also decided to sever his connection. It is the intention of Messrs. Tail-brother and Pickering to commence business in New Plymouth as land and commission agents.

One of Wellington's earlv settlers in the person of Mr. E. H. Hunt lias passed away in Nelson. The deceased gentleman, who was a few weeks over 90 years of age at his death, was a native of Somerset, England, and arrived in Victoria in the gold digging days of 1852. For some years he was a large merchant in Melbourne, during which time he had a long lease of the whole of King Island in Bass Straits, with an area of 2(0,000 acres, which now carries a population of 1200 people. In JSGB Mr, Hunt journeyed from England to Wellington, across Panama by rail During the 70's lie carried on the business of a boot and shoe importer in the building now standing next the Midland Hotel, Wellington In ISS4 he took up land in Taranaki, and later went into flaxmilling on the Piako swamp in the Waikato For the last thirteen years Mr. Hunt has been living in retirement in Nelson, One son, Mr. H. R. Hnuh. i©