PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 31 March 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL

The Rev. J. H. White, of and formerly of Rahotu, is at present! on a visit to New Plymouth. x Mr. O. Hawken, M.P., left for WelJ lington yesterday to attend a of the Producers’ Committee, of whictf he is a member. Mr. S. G. Smith, M.P., left for Wel-T lington yesterday in company with thq| New Plymouth Borough Council deputa-J tion to the Premier.

Mr. Frank O’Connor, of the railway staff, has been promoted toj ticket inspector with headquarters atill Christchurch.

Dr. Eva Day, of Manaia, has been ap-jj pointed assistant medical officer at tha Timaru Hospital.

The Rev. E. A. McCutcheon, of Tolaga Bay, has been appointed vicar of Tauranga, in place of Archdeacon Tuke, who! goes to Ellerslie at the end of thiamonth.

Sir Robert Stout, Chief Justice, leaver on a trip to Great Britain by the s.s; Corinthic* on Saturday week. He expects to be back in New Zealand about the end of the year. The Prime Minister (Right Hon. Wj F. Massey) has deceived a cablegram from Lord Milner asking him to attend the Cecil Rhodes celebration at Oxford on June 30 next. Mr. Massey will at-, tend if the business of the Imperial Conference permits.

Mr. B. M. Molineaux, who for the past ten years has occupied the position ofl inspector of the Bank of New South Wales in New Zealand, is retiring after fifty-three years’ service. He has been granted leave of absence by the head office prior to his retirement on pension on June 30 next.

The death is reported of Mr. W. H. C. Glasson, a highly respected citizen of Drury for the last twelve years. For a number of years he was chairman of various local bodies, and the. loss of his services will be keenly felt. The deceased was a son of the late Mr. C. B. Glasson, of Runciman, and son-in-law of the Hon. Major Harris. Messrs. A. Morton, J. Marx and «T» Brown left by the mail train for Palmerston North yesterday to represent Taranaki at the conference of North Island butter producers to discuss butter prices, etc. Mr. H. D. Forsyth, the other Taranaki representative, motored through. The Mayor (Mr. F. E. Wilson) and the general manager (Mr. F. T. Bellringer) went to Wellington by yesterday’s mail train to interview the Primq Minister in regard to financial problems affecting the development of the New Plymouth hydro-electric extensions. A message from Buffalo (U.S.A.) reports the death of Mr. John Burroughs, at the age of 84. Mr.. Burroughs wrote a series of books on na« ture which 1.-h notable both for knowledge of natural history and literary skill. The Rev. Charles Tobin, who died at the Masterton Hospital recently, was Chaplain of the Main Body to the forces, and was absent from New Zealand four years. He came from a distinguished family connected with the early history of Taranaki, about whom a good deal has been written lately. His great grandfather was Charles Armitage Brown, the friend of Keats and Hunt, Landor and Byron, and his grandfather was Charles ‘Brown, the first superintendent of Taranaki. His mother, who married Mr. W. H. Tobin, was Miss Laura Brown. The Browns in the early days were not noted for their orthodoxy, and when Charles Armitage Brown came to New Plymouth in the early forties his religious views did not find favor with many of the sturdy pioneers, who brought their Bibles and their prayer books with them to this new country. The wheels of time, however, ordained it that the great grandson should be a preacher of the faith his ancestor sought to supplant by a less spiritual creed. Old settlers say that why Charles Armitage Brown was buried on Maryland Hill, instead of in the old English Church cemetery, was because of his unorthodox views on religion. For over 75 years the site of the grave was lost, but recently it was located by Mr. W. H. Skinner, who had been superintending the search for the elab which had been placed over the grave, but which had become covered with earth when Maryland HilJ. was escarped and fortified during the Maori War of 1855. Major Charles Brown was a distinguished Maori scholar and linguist, and hi* grandson followed in his footsteps, for at the time of hie death he had charge of the Maori College near Masterton.