PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 May 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. Justice Hosking, who has been ill, is about again, and is progressing towards recovery.

_ Mr- Justice Chapman, who is to preside at the Supreme Court, which opens this morning, arrived in New Plymouth by the mail train last night.

Mr. A. W. Wheeler, secretary to the Union Steam Ship Company, Limited, baa been appointed general manager of the company. Mr. A. H. Johnstone arrived in New Plymouth by the mail train lust night on business connected with the Supreme Court.

Mr. J. Milne, formerly general manager of the Taranaki Farmers' Meat Company, arrived in New Plymouth by the mail train last night from Wellington.

At Saturday's meeting of the Eltham County Council, Mr. Morris E. Fitzgerald, of Feilding, was appointed county engineer in succession to Mr. R. D. Tosswill, who is going to Wanganui. There were thirteen applicants for the position.

A telegram from Dunedin says Mr. William Smart, superintending engineer of the U.S.B. Company's staff since 191)3, has retired. Mv. James Smith, late superintending engineer for the company at Sydney, has been appointed to till Mr. Smart's position. Miss E. P. Laird (Matapu) and Mr. T. Thomas (Eltham) have been appointed by the Taraanki branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute, to represent it at the conference in Wellington on the question of the Dominion scheme of grading of school teachers. They leave for Wellington to-day. Mr. .lames Buttle, late general manager of the New Zealand Insurance Company, was recently waited on and presented with a handsome suite of study furniture and a book of photographs. The former was from the managers of the company throughout the world, 'while the photographs were from the managers in New Zealand.

Colonel Bernau, who has resigned the position of commandant at King (leorge Hospital, Rotorua, left there yesterday afternoon en route to Napier, where he. enters private practice (says a telegram from Rotorua). He was presented by the staff and patients with an address and an album made in the hospital workshops, containing the signatures of all in the institution.