PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 August 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The Hon. W. D. S. MaeDonald,,L«*d6r of the Opposition, is leaving fot" Te Aroha for rest. Mr. T. M. Wilford acts as temporary leader of the, party. Sister Kelly, who has been relieving the district nurse at Palmerston; during the past three months, hat been appointed matron of the Pafea hospital. Mr. P. W. Lamb, who for the last* four years has held the. position of county clerk to the Pohangina County Council, has resigned in order to take up the position of secretary to the Hawera Electric Light Co. It is now stated that Admiral Lor.'t Jellieoe, the Qovernor-Qenejal designate of New Zealand, has definitely arranged to leave for the Dominion by the Corinthic, which is expected 40 sail this week. Lord Jellieoe was a guest at th» dinner tendered to Sir Thomas Maoker.. zie, the retiring High Commissioner. . The late Veteran John Flynn was (reports the Star) buried on Tuesdly afternoon with full military honors, the funeral procession (headed by a firing party of returned soldiers and the Citi* zens' Band playing the "Dead March in Saul" and the "Garland of Flowers") be-, ing a lengthy one, showing the esteem in which the deceased veteran was held. Services were conducted at the Hawera Catholic Church and graveside by the Very Rev. Dean McKenna, of New Plymouth, both being most impressive. Members of the Hawera branch of His Majesty's Veterans, in which deaeased had always taken a keen interest, acted* as pall-bearers. The firing of threo volleys and the sounding of the "Last Post" by Bugler Spurdle was a- final mark of respect to one who had served his country well. Mr. John Payne, who was Independent Lal)or M.P. for Grey Lynn in the last two New Zealand Parliaments, and lias filled a good many pages of Hansard with his politics and passages-at-arma, with Mr. Speaker, has by Bo mean*, thrown up "the game (says the Lance).On the contrary, he bids fair to .re-ftp*' pear in good time in a larger arena. Ini December last he went across the Tasman pond and discovered Sydney, and just now. Mr. Payne is the energetic, pri- 1 vaitc secretary of Mr. John Dooley, wlio, holds the portfolio of Colonial Secretary in Premier John Storey's New Wales Labor Government. Mr; Payne has not parted with his picture thsaitrai interests in Napier, tat he is in Australia all the same "for keeps." In a'«h|t the other day with the Lance's Sydney representative, the ex-M.P. for Grey Lynn confessed that his fond aspiration was to win a seat in the Federal Pania-