PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 December 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Sir Basaett Edwards is expected to arrive 111 New Plymouth to-night to preside over the Supreme Court, which opens here to-morrow.

Mr. F. W. Rowley, Secretary for Labor, was on a visit to New Plymouth yesterday on departmental business. He leaves this morning for Wanganui.

Messrs T. H. Bates, V. H. S. Griffiths (New Plymouth), J. D. Healy (Stratford), J. A. Duffil and Gibson (Hawera) left for Wanganui yesterday to attend the annual conference of the TaranakiWanganui branch of the Architects' Association.

Sub-Inspector Hutton, of New Plymouth, has been promoted to inspector in charge of a new police district, with headquarter? at New Plymouth, this new district in consist of a number of stations to be taken oil' the remote parts of the Wanganui district. *Mr. T. Har> Giles, the Conciliation Commissioner for the Northern District, arrived in Nov,- Plymouth by the Rarawa. yesterday morning. This is Mr. Harle Giles' lirsi visit .to Taranaki for some months, ill-health having compelled him lo take a long rest. A London correspondent writes that Sir Joseph Ward has completely recovered his health, and he and Lady Ward have been having an enjoyable motor trip through Englard. They proposed going to the south of France sit the end of this month.

The King and Queen of Denmark, accompanied by their niece, Princess Margaret, are arriving in London to-day 911 a private visit, to their Majesties. Rumor has lately been busy with the names of the Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret, who is an attractive girl of 25, says a London cable. The following recent promotions in the Post aiid Telegraph Department are announced:—Mr. C. U. 0. Naumann, accountant, Wanganui. Mr. W. Canning, postmaster, Waverley, to be postmaster, Pahiatua. Mr. ft. W. Haxleton, supervisor, telegraph office, Wanganui, to be postmaster, Waihi. Mr. D. M. Mcintosh, supervisor, telegraph office, Chri9tchureh, to be postmaster, Tauranga.

According to the Glasgow Bulletin, Mr. Alexander Macdonald> one of the oldest Highlanders in London, is emigrating to New Zealand at the age of 80 years. An Invernessian, he went to London 50 years ago, and is now going to spend the remaining years of his retirement at Wellington with his daughter. He is six feet in height, and lmß much of the bodily and mental vigor of a mid<l'?-aged man. Questioned regarding the New Zealand representation to the .Tune Imperial Conference, Mr. Massey said that the probability was that, owing to important business requiring his attention and the possibilities of the industrial situation, he would be unable to leave. In such a case the Dominion would be represented by. Sir Francis Bell and the High Commissioner.—Press Assn.

A very old anil well-known resident of Auckland, Mr. fieorge Schwartz Kissling, has (lied in his eightieth "year. Sir. Kissling was a son of the late Venerable Archdeacon G. A. Kissling, ami was born in Wei ton, Yorkshire, England, in 1841. Ho received his education at St. John's College, Tamaki. At the age of fourteen he joined the staff of the Union Bank in Auckland, where he remained for five years. Mr. Kissling then joined the Bank of New Zealand, and rose to manager of the Auckland branch, which he resigned in 1888. Afterwards he for many years filled the position of attorney to the New Zealand and River Plate Land Mortgage Company, and was secretary of the Waiotabi 6.M. Co. during the'boom, when that mine produced about £400,000. He was also an auditor of the South British Insurance Co., the Auckland Savings Bank, and a number of other companies, remaining in active work as an accountant until a year or two ago, when failing health necessitated his voluntary retirement. Mr. Kissling was also; for a period secretary to the Auckland Chamber of Mines.