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Taranaki Daily News, 11 February 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. W. Young, branch manager at Mahoe for the Mangatoki Dairy Co., has accepted the position of manager to the Patua Dairy Co.

A London cablegram, states that Mr. Will Crooks is retiring from politics on account of ill-health. The Labor Party has selected Mr. Ramsay Macdonald to contest his seat.

A cable from London says the Aeuo Club "is giving a reception and dinner to Sir Keith Ross-Smith, on February 22. The Prince of Wales and the Duke of York will attend.

Mr, A T. Christensen, chairman of the Patea Harbor Board, intends taking a trip Home shortly, and will probably leave for the Old Country about May next. It is his intention to be absent about six months.

One of the oldest settlers of Onehunga, Mr. John Boyd, died last week, aged 87 years. Mr. Boyd, who had resided in’ Onehunga for 75 years, arrived in New Zealand in the ship Ramillies on August 14, 1836. During the greater part of his life he was engaged in trading on the Manukau Harbor.

The Governor-General and Lady Jellicoe, accompanied by the Hon. Lucy Jellicoe, will make a tour of the South Island next month. Their Excellencies will be accompanied by Captain A. R. W. Curtis, private secretary, and two aides-de-camp. The Vice-Regal party will arrive, at Nelson from Blenheim by motor car" on the evening of March 3, and leave for the south by the Tutanekai two days later.

An old and well-known resident of the Mount Eden district (Auckland) Mr. Joseph Webley, died on Sunday, in his 89th year. Mr. Webley, who was a native of Corsham, Gloucestershire, came to’ New Zealand in 1884. Four years later he was appointed clerk and collector to the Mount Eden Road Board, and when the district was formed into a borough’ in 1906 he became its first town clerk. In the following year his advancing age caused him to retire alter 19 years’ public

Another link with the early colonist days has been severed by the death, in Auckland, at the age of 81, of Mr. Thomas Edmund Smith, late of Kaiaua, and one of the best known settlers in the Miranda district. Mr. Smith was born at Salisbury, England, and came to New Zealand with his father and two brothers by the ship Royal Stuart in 1864. For four or five years he served with the New Zealand Armed Constabulary in the Maori War, and later commenced business in Karangahape Road with his brothers, shortly afterwards going- to Thames.

Mr. David Carter, manager for the Union Steam Ship Company at Newcastle, formerly manager for the company at Fiji—has been appointed to the charge of the Auckland branch in succession to Mr. J. H. C. Band, who has .just received the appointment of Dominion superintendent of the New Zealand Shipping Company. Mr. Carter’s successor at Newcastle will be Mr. P. N. Jeffreys, the present manager at Greymouth. Mr. W. B. Cunningham, submanager at Lyttelton, will succeed Mr. Jeffreys at Greymouth, and Mr. J. N. Greenland, of th£ Wellington staff, has been appointed acting-manager at