PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 March 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The resignation of Mr, Dickie jva a member of the Pa tea Harbor Board was tendered at the meeting of the Board oil Monday. Mr. W. A, Brown, headmaster of the Ngaere'school, was among the successful candidates for class "B" at the recent teachers' examination. A wedding took, place at the Catholic Church, Manaia, on February 11th. the contracting parties being Miss Klma Kose Hickev, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hickey, of Lower Glen Road, Kaupokonui, and ex-Sergeant Edward Augustine Mulligan, M.M., third son of the late Mr. Matthew Mulligan, and Mrs. Mulligan, of Dunbovne, County Meath, Ireland. Mr. Ben Simpson, whose marriage takes place to-day, was the recipient of a presentation from his colleagues on Mr. Newton King's New Plymouth staff yesterday. Mr. Stanley Shaw expressed the staff's best wishes to Mr. Simpson, and presented him with a handsome cheque. The previous evening Mr. Simpson received a presentation from a number of personal friends. Mr. Alfred Hill, an old South Taranaki resident, died at lCaponga on Tuesday. The late Mr. Hill was born at Worcester. England, eighty years ago, and fcame to the Dominion with his young family about forty years ago. He lived at Manaia and Hawera for many years, and was well known and highly respected. Deceased leaves a family of seven sons and three daughters—Mrs. .Robert Coxhead, of Miranda, Auckland; Mrs. .!, Junes, Levin; Miss E. X. Hill, Wanganui; Messrs. I\ and L, Hill, Eltham; W. J. and H. E. Hill, Manaiii; C. M. Hill, of the Daily News, New Plymouth; C. S. Hill, Kaponga; and Les. Hill, of the Divisional Staff of the Telegraph Department, Wellington, also some forty grand-children and eight great-grnnd-children.