PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 September 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. Henry Brown, of Inglewood, who has been very seriously ill, is improving in health.

Mr. Carl Seegner, who up to the outbreak of war in 1914 iva? Imperial German Consul at Auckland, died last Friday. Miss E. Campbell, of the New Plymouth Central School staff, has resigned in order to join the staff of the New Plymouth Boys' H*gh School. Mr. F. B. Wylds, who for the past five years has acted as accountant in the Hawera branch of the Bank of New Zealand, has been promoted to the managership of the Eltham branch.

Mr. C. Hawkes Wilson, sheep farmer, of Cabbage Bay, Cape Colville, died on Sunday in Coromandel hospital from heart failure following on pneumonia. He was the second son of Judge Wilson, of the Native Land Court, and a brother of Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M.

During the visit to Apia, Samoa, of His Royal Highness the l'rince of Wales, Lieut.-'Colonel E. .1. Hulbert, of Wellington, New Zealand Mounted Rifles, now of the Saraoan Treasury, was decorated by His lloyal Highness with the Distinguished Service Order, awarded to him for services in Palestine. It is the first time Samoa Ims/ witnessed the decoration of a soldier by a member of the Royal Family, and the recipient was warmly congratulated' by the British residents.

Viscount Jellicoe is the fourth naval officer who has occupied the position of Governor of New Zealand. The first was Captain Hobson, the first Governor of New Zealand; the second was Captain Fjtzroy, known to science as the inventor of the Fitzroy barometer; the third was the late Earl of Glasgow; and the fourth is Lord Jellicoe, Admiral of tho Fleet.