PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 3 January 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL

M>. F. J. Hill, who has been attending the bowling tournament at Wanganui, left on Saturday for Christ church

Miss E. Andrews, of New Plymouth, has been elected to the committee of the New Zealand Women Teachers’ Association.

A London cable says Lord Curzon (Secretary for Foreign Affairs) has appointed Mr. Arthur Desper, of Melbourne, assistant private secretary.

Commandant and Mrs. Bayliss of the New Plymouth Salvation Army, are under orders to farewell and proceed to Linwood, Christchurch. They will be succeeded by Commandant and Mrs. Middlemiss, now stationed at Auckland city, who expect to arrive by the Rarawa on Friday, January 7. Mr. V. C. Davies left on Saturday morning on a visit to the South Island. Prior to returning home he will attend the annual conference of the Dominion Nurserymen’s Association at Wellington. Mr. Dawson Webster left New Plymouth on Saturday for Nelson to join a well-known Nelson legal firm. Mr. Webster has for many years been a prominent official of the Tukapa Football Club, and prior to his departure ho was presented with a token of appreciation from the members of the chib.

A cable from London reports the death of Miss Mary Macarthur, Secretary of the Women’s Trade Union League and the National Federation of Women Workers. . Miss Macarthur always took a prominent interest in all movements aiming at the welfare of women, and she was one of the leading women publicists of the day. She was only 40 years of age. Mr. E. A. Haggen, son of the late Mr. E. A. Haggen, a journalist who at one time lived in Wellington, has been appointed Lecturer in Law at the University of Leeds, after having completed his graduate course in Law at Queen’s College, Oxford. Mr. Haggen represented British Columbia at that University since 1913—with an interval, of course, during his period on active service. He lately took his M.A. and B.C.L. degrees. The death is reported from Blenheim of Mr. Sidney Atann Youmans, at the age of sixty-six years. The late Mr. Youmans was a keen bowler, and was a member of the Victoria Club, in Wellington. was a prominent Rechabite for almost fifty years, and held high offices. He leaves four daughters, three of whom are married, and one

The London Daily News says that Canon Peter Green, of Manchester, who recently refused the Bishopric of Lincoln, will be offered the Archbishopric of Melbourne. The paper says he has been privately informed that he will receive the offer, but that he has not considered the possibility of promotion to the Australian See.

At St. Paul’s Pro-Cathedral, Wellington, on Wednesday, December 29, the marriage took place of Miss Violet Caroline Bell, youngest daughter of Sir Francis Bell, leader of the Legislative Council, and Lacy Bell, to Mr. John Geoffrey Denniston, youngest son of the late Sir John Denniston and Lady Denniston, of Christchurch. The Ven. Archdeacon Johnson officiated. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a beautiful frock of accordeon pleated georgette, the skirt opening over panels of shadow lace at each side and the corsage' finished with pearls. The were Miss Enid Bell (sister) and two little girls, Miss Cara Johnston (niece of the bride) and Miss Valerie Denniston (niece of the bridegroom). The best man was Mr. J. R. Druges. Mrs. Abraham (Stratford), sister of the bridegroom, attended the wedding.

Sir Lionel Halsey was the guest of Sir James Allen at New Zealand House, the Strand, on November 3, writes a London correspondent, when the High Commissioner presented to him the greenstone and silver inkstand from the boys of the Waitaki High School in recognition of the interest he had taken in their branch of the Navy League, of which every boy in the school is a member.