PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 August 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The condition of Cons tab! a Wroblenski, of Now Plymouth, showed a. slight improvement yesterday, according to medical reports last evening. Messrs, S. G-. Smith, W. f. Jennings, R. Masters, 0. Hawken, and W. D. Powdrell, M.P.'s, are spending the week-end at their homes. Mr. T. R. Cresswell, M.A., senior inspector of uacondary schools, has accepted the appointment of principal of Wellington College in succession to Mr. J. P. Firth, who is retiring, and will take up his new duties from January next. Mr. F. S. Johns sprained his ankle on the New Plymouth golf links on Saturday afternoon. The sprain is a severe one, and Mr. Johns will be laid up for some days. At the annual meeting of the Taranaki Producers' Freezing Company on Saturday a resolution was passed expressing high appreciation of the long and faithful services rendered the Company by Mr. R. Dingle, who was retiring from the directorate. The chairman (Mr, A. Morton),-in moving the resolution, jjoinled out that Mr. Dingle had been one of the original directors of the Company and had held that position continuously. He paid a high tribute to the excellent service rendered by Mr. Dingle. These remarks were endorsed by Messrs. Sahgster, Brown and others. The death occurred at Takapuna (Auckland) on Thursday afternoon of Mr. Robert Dudley Eyre, in his 80th year. Mr. Eyre was the father of Mr. S. S. Eyre, who was murdered at Pukekawa on Tuesday night. He had been in ill-health for a month past, and had received attention in hospital. Mrs. Eyre, who was nursing her husband, was not told of her son's death 1 until Thursday morning, and in view of her husband's condition she deemed it inadvisable to inform him of the tragedy. Mr. Eyre passed away a few hours later. He is stated to have been one of the original surveyors of Takapuna, having first settled in that district 54 years ago. He' spent some years in the United States, where his two married daughters live. Mr. R. B. D. Eyre, Collector of Customs at New Plymouth, is his eldest sou, and Mr. E. A. Eyre, a member of the Northcote Borough Council, is another son." Sir Arnold Gridley, K.8.E., late Director of Electric Supplies in the Ministry of Munitions, and now of the English Electric Company, who is touring the Colonies, and has now been for some time in New Zealand, is at present on a visit to New Plymouth, having arrived from Hawera on Saturday. In company with the Mayor and officials he visited the New Plymouth power station and went over the routes of the proposed tramwßy- extensions. Yesterday afternoon was spent in a trip to the mountain as the guest of the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce and Tourist and Expansion League. To-day, at one o'clock, the Chamber of Commerce will hold a luncheon in his honor. Sir Arnold leaves for Wellington by tomorrow's express, and departs from the Dominion towards the end of September for Australia, thence going to England, via Colombo.