PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 August 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The Mayor (Mr. Jaa Clarke) Muffled ■to New Plymouth last evening after s business trip to Wellington. A cable from Sydney records tfce death of Mr. J. A. Hogue, ex-'Miwste* of Public Instruction. ' At yesterday's meeting of the. Taran naki County Council a telegram wm re< ceive,d from Councillor C. Andrews, apologising for his absence from the meeting on account of a severe illness. Wanganui papers record the deaths of Mr. J. R. Johns, a well known prohibition and religious worker; Mr. T. D. Cummins, aged 74 years, a Maori war veteran; and Mr. Andrew McFurirae, aged 48 years, a native of the town. Mrs. Bond, of Nelson, is In Hawera. She will shortly be joined by Mr. Percy Bond, who has sold out his interest in , the Nelson Colonist and is taking * few months' holiday. Mr. Lyell N. Wilson, cabled advice o( whose death on July 16, at Coofbaety Ashanti, West Africa,' hae been received, was for many years in business in Auckland as an analytical chemist', amjTlat the time of his death was in charge or a large mining concession in Ashanti,. H* was the sixth son of the late Judge Wilson, and a brother of Mr. .Wyvera Wilson, S.M., of Wanganui. He ia survived by Mrs. Wilson and one son, both residing in England.—Auckland 'Herald. , Commandant Scotney, who haa been in charge of the Salvation Ann? Boy»' Home, at Eltliam for the past -eeven and a half years, haa received advice, of his transfer to Wellington, ■ tttptce he takes up the .position of Men's Secretary, with th* rank oi »teff-a4>-tain. In this capacity be "will bejn charge of all the Army's men's tad hp' institutes in.New Zealand. 'HI* Wecesser in charge of the Boya* Home l£H be Brigadier Page, of Wellington, 4*o is at present chief accountant of fee New Zealand staff, eays the Argot