PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 February 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Messrs. R. Masters (M.P. for Stratford) and O. J. Hawken (M.P, for Egmont) will be members of the Parliamentary party making the East Coast tour.

Mr. Thomas Allison, solicitor, of Wanganui, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society of England. Mr. Allison is an enthusiastic amateur astronomer.

Mr. Charles L. Young, headmaster of Christ’s College Lower School, died on Thursday in Christchurch, as the result of haemorrhage following on gas poisoning sustained at the front.

Mr. R. M. Watson, LL.B., S.M., latelj’ Chief Judge of the High Court of Western Samoa, has been appointed to the Magisterial districts lying immediately north arid south of Auckland city, and will take up duties on March 1.

Mr. C. McLaughlan, who has been accountant at the Rangiora branch of the Bank of New Zealand for over four years, has received notice of promotion to the management of the branch of the bank at Mosgicl. Mr. McLaughlin will leave Rangiora early next week.

The Hon. C. J. Parr (Minister of Education and Health) spent yesterday at Timaru and had a busy time visiting schiols and hospitals and receiving deputations. He leaves to-day for Mount Cook.—Press Association.

Baroness Furnivall, wife of Lieuten-’ant-Commander A. W. S. Agar, V.C., D. 5.0., of H.M.S. Chatham, has arrived in Auckland. Baroness Furnivall. whose family name prior to marriage was Petre, is the daughter of the fourteenth baron. On his death the title was in abeyance until declared in her favor in i 913.

One of the fast-dwindling number of Aucklanders of the “forties” passed away on Wednesday in the person of Mrs. Taylor, of Remuera, and formerly of Devonport. Mrs. Taylor, who was the widow of the late Mr. John Taylor, farmerly foreman of works for the Auckland Harbor Board, was born in Auckland 74 years ago, her father being Mr. W. J. Wright, one of the early settlers of the district. Mrs. Taylor leaves a family of three sons and nine daughters. The command of the sloop Laburnum, which is under orders to proceed to the South Sea Islands division of the New Zealand station, has been given to Commander George P. Sherston, recently doing duty aboard the Vivid gunnery ship at Devonport. Commander Sherston, who comes of an old naval and military family, was a lieutenant-commander of the battleship Bellerophen when the war began in 1914, and saw much hard work with the Grand Fleet in the North Sea, and in other spheres of naval activity. After the war, he was senior naval officer on the Aberdeen coast for some time, his ship having been the yacht Nairn. His appointment to the Laburnum, which is presently fitting out at Devonport, dates from November 29. The Laburnum is of the 17-knot sloop type, and a well-tested ship during the war.