PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 January 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The death is reported of Mr. Stewart Monteith, a well-known brewer of Reefton. Mr. F. J. \Dunbar, of Waipawa, is at present relie v’fig Mr. G. H. Stephenson, manager of#the Bank of New Zealand at Patea, who is leaving shortly on two months’ furlough. The Hon. D. H. Guthrie, Minister for Lands, who returned to Wellington on Saturday, expects to remain there till the end of the present month. No announcement has yet been made in regard to his promised visit to Taranaki. Anoth/r West Coast pioneer, Mr. Thomas McLean, has died at the Grey River Hospital. The late Mr. McLean, who was 60 years of age and a native of Scotland, came out from the (Old Country about thirty years ago. Messrs. M. Fraser and F. J. Hill, of New Plymouth, leave for Wellington this morning on business connected with the Taranaki Hospital Board. Mr. Hill, as Deputy-Alayor, will also, in company with the borough manager (Mr. F. T. Bellringer), interview the Minister of Finance in regard to borough matters.

A Press Association telegram from Auckland savs Mr. V. R. S. Meredith, of the firm of MesB?sU Hesketh, Richmond, Clayton, and Meredith, barristers and solicitors, has been appointed Crown Prosecutor for Auckland in succession to the late Hon. J. A. Tole.

Mr. R. H. Nolan was a passenger from Auckland by the Rarawa yesterday morning and on to Hawera by the mail train. Mr. Nolan’s many friends throughout Taranaki will lie pleased to learn that since his return to New Zealand he is making a splendid recovery from the very severe illness which overtook him after his strenuous work on behalf of New Zealand soldiers at Home.

Sir W. H. Herries (Minister for Native Affairs, Customs and Marine, and Labor) informed a Times representative that, while it was his intentibn to resign his portfolios before proceeding to the Old Country, the date of his resignation had not yet been decided upon. The Minister is to leave New Zealand in the Arawa, which is timed to sail from Wellington on February 3. Mr. T. M. Wilford, M.P., has received a letter from Sir Howard D’Egville, secretary of the Empire Parliamentary Association in London. In the letter occurs the following passage: “Allow me to congratulate you on your election as leader of the Opposition. You will now take Sir Joseph Ward’s place as vice-president of the branch of the Empire Parliamentary Association in your Parliament.”

Mr. H. J. Knight, vice-president of the Christchurch Returned Soldiers’ Association, has been appealed one of the two delegates to represent New Zealand at the Empire conference to be held in Capetown in February. Mr. C. W. Batten, of Wellington, was originally nominated, but was unable to accept the appointment. The other delegate is Mr. W. E. Leadley, secretary to the Christchurch Association.

Mr. Alexander Macdonald, a prominent Scot in London, recently sailed for New’ Zealand. One of the founders of the London Inverness-shire Association forty years ago, he is 80 years of age, and has been in London for 50 years. Retiring from business Recently, he is now on his way to Wellington, to stay with his daughter. The executive committee of the Inverness-shire Association entertained him to dinner on the eve of his departure. In a brief speech he told the gathering that he had made a compact that if he did not like New Zealand he wquld return to London.