PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 January 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Messrs. William Herbert Hagger, Thomas Harle Giles, and Walter Newton have been reappointed Conciliation Commissioners under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1908. A London cablegram says that it is announced that Mr. Churchill is not taking over the Colonial Office immediately. Lord Milner is retaining the seals of office for some time yet. Mr-.~p. Waterson, for some years manager of the Union Bank of Australia at Ashburton, has received notice of trans-, fer to New Plymouth. He will leave some time in March. Mr. P. J. H. White, chairman of the Taranaki Education Board, who has been attending a conference of Education Board chairmen, secretaries and architects with the Minister of Education at Wellington, returned to New Plymouth last night.

An Auckland telegram reports that Chaplain-Colonel J. A. Luxford, a veteran of the South African and the great war, died yesterday. Chaplain Luxford served throughout the recent war. He landed on Gallipoli, where he was severely wounded, and on recovering he continued duty with the New Zealand Division.

Mr. C. H. F. Macpherson, Hawera manager of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., for the past two and a half yeans, left Hawera on Wednesday for Wellington to take up a position in the company’s head office. Mr. Macpherson, while in Hawera, was prominently connected with the Egmont Racing Club, Chamber of Commerce, Hawera Club, etc., and his absence will be felt in these and other local institutions (says the Star),