PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 January 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The Rev Father Cahill, who returned to Waipawa this week after a trip to Ireland, has now been appointed to the charge of the Patea parish. Mr. P. Jackson, for some years manager’ of the New Plymouth branch of the Union Bank, has received notice of transfer to Ashburton. Mr. C. Waterson, manager of the Ashburton branch, succeeds Mr. Jackson at New Plymouth. Mr. J. C. Kenny, one of the best known and most popular commercial travellers in Taranaki, where he has been stationed for thb past 14 years, has severed his connection with Messrs. J. Myers and Co., of Wellington, after 20 years’ service with that firm, in order to enter into business in New Plymouth. Captain F. Hudson, N.Z. Staff Corps, Commander No. 8 (Taranaki) Group, is among the officers selected for retirement under the reduction of personnel consequent upon a curtailment of defence expenditure (says the Star). Lieut. Andrew, V.C., of New Plymouth, who is now relieving at Hawera, will take charge of the group. An Ashburton telegram says that Joshua Tucker, aged 75, died at his residence at Allenton on Saturday. He was born in Devonshire, and arrived in New Zealand in 1871 in the Zealandia, coming to Ashburton in 1875, where he has been a prominent figure in public and commercial life ever sincte. He leaves an adult family of six sons and two daughters. Mr. Len Tarrant, erstwhile of Wanganui and Hawera, who for the past eighteen months has been resident in the United States, is back in the Dominion for the purpose, we understand, of taking his family back with him to America. Mr. Tarrant has “made good” in the big Republic, and is now part proprietor of two flourishing paint factories.—Wanganui Chronicle.

The death occurred at Auckland last week of Colonel the Rev. -I. A. Luxford, C.M..G., who was senior Methodist chaplain to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force during the late war. The late Colonel Luxford, who was a son of the late Mr. G. H. Luxford, one of the early pioneers of Wellington, was ordained to the ministry in 1876. He served as a chaplain with the New Zealanders in the South African war in 1902, and was awarded the Queen-’s Medal with clasp. At the outbreak of the European war he was stationed at Auckland, and at once offered his Services as a chaplain. Although urged to remain behind owing to his advancing years, Ke persisted in his determination to go abroad, and left for the front with the Main body, being the first Methodist chaplain to leave New Zealand. On the Gallipoli Peninsula he was very severely wounded, and as a result one of his legs was amputated. For some months he was in hospital at Walton-on-Thames. hut on recovery he was averse to returning to New Zealand, and remained at Walton as chaplain, at the same time holding the appointment of senior Methodist chaplain to the N.Z.E.F., with the rank of colonel. For his services during the war he was awarded the C.M.G. Of recent months the late Colonel Luxford’s health had been seriously impaired owing to his war injuries, and his death was not altogether unexpected.