PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 23 March 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr. William Murdoch, the pianist, was married to Mrs. Dorothy Lang, of Copenhagen, on March 21. Mr. Chamberlain has been unanimously appointed leader of the Unionist Party in succession to Mr. Bonar Law. Constable J. F. O’Donovan, of Wellington, has been transferred to New Plymouth as assistant clerk in rhe new Taranaki district office. In consequence of her recent illness Dame Melba has been ordered a sea voyigo and she leaves England for Australia, via Canada, on June 2. Dame Melba will be accompanied by her son and his family and will remain in Australia for six months. Mr. N. R. Mackintosh, manager for New Zealand for the Sun Insurance Office, has been appointed the company’s superintendent for Australia and New Zealand as from June 1. with headquarters in Melbourne. The death is announced of Mr. Robert Symme Young, of Wanganui. Deceased, who was sixty-seven years of age, was a native of Peebles, Scotland, and came to New Zealand forty-four years ago. Mr. P. I). Lam, of Bombay, India, is a visitor to New Zealand, accompanied by Mrs. Lam. Mrs. Lam is the first Parsee lady to visit New Zealand. Dr. Bruce Mackenzie, son of Sir Thomas Mackenzie, who recently arrived from England, has taken up his residence in Auckland. During war he held a commission in the New Zealand Medical Corps and a time acted as radiologist at Walton Hospital.' Since then he has been studying X-ray work at several London hospitals. The death occurred in the New Plymouth Hospital yesterday of Mrs. Roch, widow of the late Mr. J. G. Roch, who fell a victim to the influenza epidemic while undergoing military training at Trenjthum. Since that time Mrs. Roch’a health had. been far from good. She will be missed by many friends in New Plymouth, particularly in the Frankleigh Park district, where she* took a keen interest in the work of the Methodist Church. She leaves an only son, aged about 13 years.

Mr. T. O. Bishop, for six years inspector of mines for the West Coast, Nelson and Marlborough districts and latterly inspecting engineer of metalliferous mines for the Dominion, has resigned from thq Government service to take an appointment as industrial adviser to the New Zealand Coal Mine Owners’ Association. Mr. Bishop’s duties will be Vo act in an advising capacity to the association on all technical matters, but during the absence of Mr. W. Pryor, who is on leave, he will temporarily act, also, as secretary to the association.

“Who would not pack up and leave this heavy-laden Old England in these days for New Zealand the beautiful ?’’ This query is put by a writer in the Birmingham Evening Despatch, who is chronicling the appointment of Mr. W. H. Pringle to the Professorship of Economics, Otago University. “I rather envy Mr. Pringle,” he says. “His departure. which is originally due to medical advice, is a loss to the intellectual forces of Presbyterianism in England, and especially to the denomination in Harrow, of which he has been a shining light. In addition, he is a well-known political economist, barrister, University Extension lecturer, and Liberal journalist.” '

The death occurred in Masterton on Sunday of the Rev. Charles Edward O’Hara Tobin, principal of the Hikurangi Native College. Deceased was trained at St. John’s College, Auckland, and ordained deacon in 1909 by the Bishop of Wellington; in 1910 he was ordained to the Ministry, and was later appointed vicar of Pongaroa. The Rev. Tobin volunteered for active service as a chaplain, being one of the first ministers in the Dominion to do so. He served throughout the war with the N.Z.E.F., first in Egypt, Gallipoii and Malta, and later in France and England, where he was married. Upon his return to the Dominion he was appointed principal of the Native College at Clareville, a position he occupied to the time of his death.