PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 January 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. J, D. Salmond, M.A., of Queenstown, has been appointed headmaster of the Timaru Boys’ High School. Mr. G. A. Duncan, F.1.A.N.Z., has been appointed secretary of the Hawera Dairy Co., out of 69 applicants. The Rev. H, A. Coleman, the newlyappointed vicar of Okato, New Plymouth, is expected to leave London towards the end of February, accompanied by Mrs. Coleman and their two children. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., has received advice from its London office that Lord Ritchie, of Dundee, has joined the company’s London Board of Directors. The Rev. E. C. Crosse, D. 5.0., M.C., M.A., arrived in Wellington on Wednesday by the Ruahine. Mr. Crosse is the new headmaster of Christ’s College, Christchurch. There died at Opotiki on Sunday week Arapeta Taraao, one of the biggest chiefs of the Kawaitangohua, a sub-tribe of the Whanauapanui. Arapeta was nearly 100 years of age, and 60 years ago was a major in the British Army. At the time of Volkner’s murder, he had buried his fourth wife, and is survived by No. 13. At one time he ran a scow between Opotiki and Auckland. The first white boy born in Wanganui is honoring his birth-place with a visit just now (says the Wanganui Herald). We refer to Mr. Anthony Na- 1 than, ex-Mayor of Taihape, who is renewing acquaintances with old friends, who are delighted to see him still in the land of the living. Mr. Anthony Nathan was on April 7, 1843, and is |he eldest son of the late Mr. Henry Nathan, at one time Mayor of Wanganui.

Mr. V. R. S. Meredith, Auckland’s new Crown Solicitor, who is a of Whangarei, was educated at the Onehunga school and the Auckland Grammar School, at both of which he won scholarships. He relinquished the one gained at the Grammar School in order to enter the Civil Service, and was employed in the Customs Department for 11 years. During that period he studied law and qualified for the profession. He commenced practice in Wellington, where he entered into partnership with Mr. R. M. Watson, late Chief Judge at Samoa. Subsequently Mr. Meredith occupied the position of Crown Solicitor in Wellington for three years. He came to Auckland about two years ago.