PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 January 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A cable from Sydney says the Premier (Mr. Storey) has departed for London. Mr. John Washington Smith has been appointed a ranger of Crown landis for the Taranaki Land District. The Rev. Oscar Blundell has been appointed probation officer for the borough of New’ Plymouth. Mr. Walter J. Jones, editor of the Southland News, has been appointed governing director of that company and the Oamaru Mail Company, in succession to the late Hon. George Jones. Mr. C. H. Wynyard, of New Plymouth, has received advice that he passed in four subjects in the recent law examinations, thus completing his solicitors’ course. Mr. F. T. Bellringer, New Plymouth borough manager, who is visiting Wellington, is not expected to return till to-morrow night. Sir Robert Stout, Chief Justice, will, for health reasons, make his projected journey to England by the direct route. He will visit the United States on his return at the end of the year. Messrs. M. Fraser and F. J. Hill, who went to Wellington last week on Taranaki Hospital Board business, returned to New Plymouth by the mail train on Saturday night. The death has taken place of Mr. Robert Mclntosh Meffen, a well-known commercial traveller, formerly of Dunedin, who had only taken up his residence in Palmerston North three weeks ago. The following have been appointed as representatives of the Patea County Council on the Patea Hospital Board: Messrs. F. O. Matthews, F. J. F. McDonald, W. H. Watkins, F. Hooper, J. Hurley, J. R. Tavlor, and W. G. Belton

Mr. Richard Wornall, who died at Broomfield on Tuesday, had resided in Canterbury (pr seventy years. He belonged to the Pilgrims, and as a boy of six years came out with hie parents in the Sir George Seymour, which arrived in Decepiber, 1850.

Messrs. W. E. Leadley and H. J. Knight, the New Zealand delegates, to the °conference of ex-soldier organisations of the Empire to be held in Cape Town, commencing on February 23, left Wellington by the Manuka on Thursday evening. They will join the Ceramic at Sydney on Wednesday.

The death occurred ai Wanganui on Thuradav of Mr. D. G. Polson, one of the oldest and most highly esteemed residents of the district. Mr. Polson was horn in 1837-the year that Queen Victoria came to the throne—and his boyhood was spent in tlJi Highlands of Scotland, where his father was a farmer. In 1»57, when Mr. Polson was 20 years of age, he came out to -Cew Zealand, and went to Dunedin. He saw a great deal of the pioneer life of Otago, and his early training stood him in good stead. After working as a shepherd on one ’tat lo ". llranother Highlander, a Mr. John Sutheiland, took over the Waitahuna run, and they were amongst the first breeders of half-bred sheep. At that time Mr. Polson owned a piece of land which to-day is almost in the centre of Dunedin. Forty-eight years ago Mr. Polson came to Wanganui, and from that time he had been closely associated with the progress of this diSTFict. He carried on fanning at Mangamahu, and took a very prominent part in public life, being an ex-chairman of the Wanganui County Council and ex-ehairman of the Wanganui Harbor Board.—Wanganui Chronicle.