PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 February 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. Harle Giles has been re-appointed Conciliation Commissioner for the fifth term of three years. Mr. C. E. Bevan Brown, the wellknown headmaster, retired officially from the Christchurch Boys’ High School this week after 36 years’ association with the institution. Mr. Thomas Alexander Dykes, examiner of masters and mates, Auckland, has been promoted to be commander of the training ship Amokura, Wellington.

Mr Gunson has informed the Auckland City Council of his intention to retire from the Mayoralty, which he has held for six years.

Brigadier-General E. A. Wisdom, Westralia, has been appointed Administrator of New Guinea, and Brigadier-Gen-eral T. Griffiths Administrator of Nauru.

Sir William Herries, the retiring Minister for Customs and Marine, Native Affairs, and Labor, will leave New Zealand for the Old Country by the Arawa, which is due to sail from Wellington tomorrow morning.

Many friends throughout South Taranaki will learn with regret of the death at Hawera of Mr. Thomas Liddington, an old settler, who was for many years farming at To Kiri, and who came to live in Hawera some months ago. Mr. Geo. Liddington, of Hawera, js a son. With Mrs. Liddington and the family deep sympathy will be felt.—Star. The term of appointment of quit? a number of the Legislative Councillors expires this year. The Hon. John Barr, whose term was -up on January 28, has been re-appointed. The appointments of all the following Councillors expire on- July 14 jjext: The Hons. Aitken, Carbon, Collins, Fisher, McGibbon, McGregor, Moore, Samuel, and. Simpson.

It is reported that Mr. Gray, an exchief inspector of the Wanganui Education Board and at present principal of the Presbyterian Girls’ College in Melbourne, is the most likely expert to secure the position of Director of Educsfcion for New Zealand (says the Wanganui Herald). Mr. Gray was head of the Teachers’ Training College in Wellington when he received the Melbourne appointment. News came to hand yesterday morning of the death at Thames Hospital of Mr. K. W. Baigent, who was wellknown and highly respected by many friends in Hawera and district (says the Star). For several years he and his family were residents of Hawera, where he was district agent for the A.M.P. Society He volunteered for active service, and was for a considerable time in France, where he had on one occasion a very - narrow escape, a piece of shell ripping his tunic. Some time ago he went north, and took up a soldier farm near Thames. While in Hawera he was keenly interested in theosophy, and was president of the local seciety. He leaves a widow and two boys, with whom deep sympathy will be felt

Mr. John Ranken Reed, K.C., who will be sworn in shortly as a Judge of the Supreme Court, was born in Queensland in December, 1864. He came to New Zealand as a boy with his father, the late Mr. G. M. Reed, and was educated first at the Auckland Grammar School and then at the Dunedin Boys’ High School. Later he went to Victoria College, Jersey, and to Clare College, Cambridge. Returning to Auckland at the close of his university career, he studied law in Auckland, and was admitted as a barrister and solicitor in 1887. He practised in Bay of Islands until 1896. and then removed to Auckland. He has interested himself in educational matters, and was a member of the Auckland Education Board. He was also a keen volunteer, and was lieut-colonel commanding the first battalion in Auckland in 1906.