PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 June 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. J. G. Isichol, manager of the Farmers' Co-operative Organisation Society ut Hawera, leaves early next month on a Ji olid ay trip to Australia. ill'. J. B, Hine, formerly member for tli e Stratford electorate, states that llieri: is 110 truth in the report that he is likely to become a member of the Legislative Council.

Mr. James Jordan, clerk of the Magistrate's Court in New Plymouth, is at present indisposed, and is not expected to be able to return to his office for some time.

Mr. Val Duff has been appointed secretary of the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce in succession to Mr. E. Lash,' who has resigned. Mr. Duff will commence his duties on July 1.

Tile death took place at the Hawera Hospital on Friday evening, from pneumonia, of Mr. J. Lane, a well-known settler of Kapuni. He leaves a wife find family.

Mr. J. F. Andrews, Secretary to Cabinet and Clerk of the Executive Council, celebrated seventy-second birthday on Satin 1 . '.ml the end of fifty years' publicum .c, of which thirty-two years were on the stalls of Cabinet Ministers. Mr. Andrews has been secretary to six Prime Ministers.

Mr. A. G. Bennett, of Manaia, received. word on Friday from Switzerland that Messrs John King, Odermatt, and Elsener, who were farming in tiie Mnnaia district for a number of years uiut who left for a trip to Switzerland lafit February, had all (lied from pneumonia on arrival in Switzerland, after a few days' illness. The three settlers Ivere well respected throughout the district.—Star.

Mr. \V. C. Maegregor, K.C'., Crown Solicitor in Dunedin,-who has accepted the Solicitor-Generalship, has been for fears the legal adviser of the Dunedin City Corporation, and has had an extensive practice in the Supreme Court. He has taken a keen interest in British Imperialism, aiul has lectured and written on this and kindred subjects. Mr. Maegregor spent his youth in Edinburgh, and won scholarships at the George Watson Institution there, but it was in Dunedin that lie pursued his law studies and qualified himself for the Bar. Mr, Maegregor is tiie son of the late Rev. James Maegregor, 'D.D., of the Columba Presbyterian Church, Oamaru, who formerly was Professor of Systematic Theology in the New College, Edinburgh, nnd the .author of about linlf a score of theological and expository books. Owing to ill-health in his family, the late Dr. Maegregor had to leave Edinburgh and seek the more genial climate of Dun? pdin. It is a coincidence that Sir John Salmond is also the son of a Presbyterian theological professor, for the late Professor Salmond, of Dunedin, was for (ears Theological Pr6fessor there, and he accepted the Chair of Mental Science in the Otago University at the request of the Presbyterian Church,