PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 November 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Messrs. 11. I). Forsyth and Jacob .Marx were passengers by the mail train yesterday morning from Eltham for Welling! on. Air. 11. Cox, of Waipawa, has been appointed to the position of assistant inspector of the post office for the North Island.

Sir Arthur Conan "Doyle, the famous author, is expected to arrive in Auckland on December li.

Mr. 0. K h'lygcr who was for many years a resident of Eltham, has disposed of his motor business in Wellington to take up an important position in New Plymouth, with a well-kudwn Taranaki firm. —Argus. Mr. J. Eeresford, who was for some time on the staff of the Railway Department at Pa ten, and who left for the Old Country some four months ago, died at sea on October 10th last.

Lieutenant Andrews V.C., of New Plymouth, is at present in Wellington. His portrait is now being painted for the National War Museum collection, by ill - . H. Linley Richardson, RiIS.A., to whom the commission was given. Messrti. K I.Jrilfiths (New Plymouth) and I<\ Mills (Ilawera) were passengers by the mail train yesterday for Palmerston North, where they will attend meetings of the councils of the N.Z. Jersey Breeders" and Ayrshire Breeders' Associations respectively.

Mr. If. V. Searle, B.A. (Cantab.), M.Ss., F. 0.5., of the New Plymouth Boys' High School staff, has accepted the position of senior science master at the Hamilton High School and will take up his new duties in the first term of the coming year.

A cable message from London states that the members of the Press delegation tendered a luncheon to Lord and Lady Burnham, Lord Northcliffe presiding. Eulogistic references were made to the personnel and work of the Canadian conference. Those present included Mr. Hutchison of Dunedin.

At the Tanuiaki County Council meeting on Monday last Or. C. Andrews, who is not seeking re-election, expressed his thanks to tlie chairman, Council and clerk for the courtesy and kindness tendered him during his fifteen years of office. He said that when he joined the Council the famous Tapuae ar(l Oakura degrading schemes were in hand, which were big undertakings at the time, and had caused the Council a lot of anxiety, financially and otherwise. However they had negotiated the difficulty and would be able to do so again. The chairman, on behalf of the Council, acknowledged the compliment, and said that although they were losing Cr. C. Andrews as a councillor they would till retain his friendship and citizenship. Cr. Andrews had been a zealous and careful councillor, and had taken a keen interest not only in the Okato Ridig but in the county work generally. He wished him long life and happiness, and when he was smoking the pipe of peace and reading of the doings of the Council, he hoped he would extend a sympathetic thought towards his old friends who were still in the field wrestling with the administration and reading problems that, like (he proverbial mushroom, are continually springing up. The late Mrs. Maria M. Sandford, who died at her residence, Vogeltown, on Monday last, had been in New Zealand for just f>o years, having landed at Lytteiton with her parents in the early part of the year 18<!0. The family settled in Christehurch, and for a year lived in a flax whare on the bank of the Avon, at the site which was eventually occupied by the Provincial Council Chambers. In IS6I they removed to Kaiapoi, where Mrs. Sandford's mother and eldest brother were the first teachers of the Church School. In IP7"> she was married to Mr. P. W. Sandford, at the Avonsidc Church, Christehurch. Changes brought. Mrs. Sandford to New Plymouth in 1907, and she has resided at Vogeltown from that time right, up to the time of her death, making many valued friendships. She is survived by her husband and two children.

The late Mr. .T. A. B. Voullaire, who died in the Hawera Hospital on Friday lust, was liorn at Zeist, in Holland, on the Kith April, 1854, and was of Hugenot descent, the family having migrated from Dauphine, in Southern France, in ICR:"), during the Hugenot, persecutions under Louis XIV. The deceased gentleman was'educated in Holland and Germany and was intended for the Moravian" ministry. 1 liter, however, he held various 'business situations in different parts of the Continent, and in 1890 came to Australia After a short time in the Commonwealth lie was for a time trading at Lanna, in the New Hebrides, and on the 4th January, 1893, landed with his family in Wellington. Shortly after, he took up land beyond Tarata, in Tavanukt, and was subsequently farming in various parts of the province. In 1000 he leased a farm on the Kowan Road, Kaponga, and in 1903 went to Riverlea, where he resided until last year, when he removed to Otakeho. He always took it great interest in both local and national polities, and held many local positions, being chairman and secretary of Riverlea School Committee, chairman and secretary of the Riverlea Fanners' [Jnion, one time a member of the Eltham County Council, and for many years a member of the provincial executive of the Farmers' Union, of which he was always a staunch member, and one of the first in Taranaki. Some twenty years ago Mr. Voullaire suffered a stroke and his health quickly broke tip, until lie was practically helpless. He entered the local hospital some months ago, but he gradually got worse, until he passed quietly away in his sleep on Friday. His end, though not unexpected, nevertheless came very suddenly. Mr. Voullaire was of a quiet and unassuming nature, and was loved and respected by all who knew him. He leaves a widow, Airs. A. Voullaire, of Otakeho, anil three sons and one daughter, besides several grandchildren, to mourn their loss. The sons are Messrs. Marc Voullaire (Oaonni). Charles (Ivaupokomiij, and, Ralph (Otakeho). The daughter is Mrs. R. F, Walker, Rama Road. Otakeho.- -Slar.