PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 May 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. .T. S. Fox, of Okato, loft by Hie mail train for Wellington yesterday morning.

A cablo from Sydney says General .Sir William Birdwood's departure for New Zealand lias beei» postponed till next Thursday.

Tiie death' is reported, at Waverlev, of Mr. Joshua Partridge, in his 77th year.

Mr. A. Stevenson, headmaster of the Woodville District High Ejchool.for over a quarter of a century, has been appointed a temporary inspector under the liawke's Bay Education Board.

The appointment is gazetted of MrPercy Muter. F.1.A., London, as deputy Government. Insurance Commissioner, as from May 10 (says a telegram from Wellington), The' Rev. f!. C. C'r liokshraik, M-A., (Oxon), of Whangarei and formerly of New Plymouth, Ims been admitted to the degree of Master of A'U, by Iho Senate of the UniveiV.iy of New Zealand. *

Dr. and Mrs. Gadsby, of Te Kuiti, arrived from Scotland by the lonic the other day. The doctor has been absent from the Dominion for about six years. Mrs. Gadsby is a daughter of the Rev. Dr. Still, of Aberdeen. The Misses Girdle and Watkins, who have been spending some" mouths in New Zealand in connection with the scheme for women immigrants to the Dominion, left by the Tainui yesterday on their return to England. The death took place yesterday at New Plymouth hospital, of Mr- J. Morrissy, a returned soldier, who lias no relatives in the Dominion. The members of the New Plymouth branch of the U.S.A. Jiave undertaken the funeral arrangements, which will be of a military character, the interment taking place on Sunday. Mr. J. 0. C'oopcr, chairman of directors of the Wellington Fanners' Meat Company, left by the Tainui yesterday on a business mission to England. He is accompanied by his wife, and anticipates that lie will be absent from New Zealand till November.

Mr. "H. R Pacey, formerly manager of the New Zealand, Dairy Association, and now a director of Messrs. Joseph Nathan and Co., has been appointed to manage the firm's business in the Manawatu district. He succeeds Mr. J. Murray, who is to manage the firm's business in the Waikato.

Amongst the veterans with whom the Prince of Wales shook hands at the parade at Christchurch on Friday last was Corporal K. N. Wickham, late Royal Field Artillery.. His Royal Highness was much interested in the record of Corporal Wickham. and of his relatives, and nsked Corporal Wickham to send him the family's complete record, which is certainly a unique one. Corporal Wickham served for six years in India, and also in South Africa, where he< gained the Queen's' medal with six clasps and the King's medal with two clasps. In the late war he served as a seaman gunner in the mercantile marine, and in the New Zealand Army Service Corps, and was awarded the 1014-15 star and two victory medals- In the last forty years two brothers, five uncles, seven cousins, and four.nephews of Corporal Wickham have served in the navy and army. Several of them were killed or died on service, and one, Thomas Perry, 24th Regiment, who was killed at Rorke's Drift, was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross.