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Taranaki Daily News, 14 April 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL

A cable from London announces that Mr. Justice Lawrence has been appointed, Lord Chief Justice.

The marriage of the Crown Prince of Persia was celebrated at Teheran on Sunday.

A Melbourne message states that Mr. W. M. Hughes will probably sail for England by the Sonoma on the 28th. Being the only person nominated, Mr. C. A. Wilkinson has been elected to represent <the boroughs of Stratford, Eltham and Inglewood on the New Plymouth Harbor Board.

Mr. Frederick Charles Renyard, of Feilding, has, out of 38 applicants, been appointed Director of the Masterton Technical School.

Messrs. A. E. Sykes and G. H.« Saunders left New Plymouth yesterday morning to join the Maheno en route for Australia. They expect to be absent about six weeks.

Dissatisfaction is expressed, says a Melbourne message, at the unofficial announcement that Archbishop Cody, of Toronto, has been appointed Archbishop of Melbourne. Opinion favored an Australian.

A London correspondent writes: Mr, Harold W. Wilson, M. 8., Ch.B., of Wav-, erley, has come to do post-graduate work in eye, ear, nose and throat, at hia old medical school, Edinburgh, and later will study the methods of the War Neurosis Hospital in England. He intends to remain in the Old Country for about three years.

At the Supreme Court, Wellington, yesterday morning Mr. Justice Reed was formally welcomed on behalf of the Bai, Wellington and the district by Mt. O’Leary, president of the Wellington section of the New Zealand Law Society In reply, Mr. Justice Reed said that all that was necessary for the establishment of happy relations between the Bench and the Bar was tact and consideration.

The following appointments of commercial instructors were approved at yesterday’s meeting of the Taranaki Education Board: Mr. E. H. Rowntree (general), New Plymouth Technical College; Miss E. Wright (dressmaking), New Plymouth Technical College; Miss F. A. Clay, of Auckland (assistant commercial), Hawera Technical High School. Mr. James Walker Hamilton, one of Otago’s early settlers, has died at Seacliff, aged eighty-one years. Deceased was educated at Watson College, Edinburgh, and came to New Zealand in 1855, landing at Wellington, but going on to Otago the same year. He participated in the rush to Gabriel’s Gully, and opened a store on the diggings. Later he was a general merchant in Oamaru till his retirement from business some years ago. Deceased was well known in bowling circles. Wanganui has sustained a great loss through the death of Mr. R. J. King, custodian of the municipal baths, who died at the public hospital this week after a brief illness (says the Chronicle). Mr. King had been indisposed for several weeks, and his ill-health culminated. in pneumonia, which caused his death. His age was only 37 years, and Wanganui swimmers lose a keen and steadfast friend, while Wanganui school children lose an efficient and earnest tutor. Swimmers and sportsmen of every class will mourn his death. Northern files record the death of Mr. W. Tierney, wlio was formerly well known in sporting circles. The deceased, a single man, was accidentally killed at Messrs. Harkness and Lunon’s sawmill at Arero, 2 miles from Tokomaru Bay, through being struck on the chest by a log being thrown back from the saw. Mr. Tierney, who was bom in Thames, and for some years followed the occupation of a carpenter, was well known to sportsmen, being one of the best bicycle riders New Zealand ha 9 produced. He represented New Zealand at international sports in England and Paris. His record for one mile still remains unbroken. Deceased was also known to old footballers.