PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 April 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. C. J. Craddock, of the New Plymouth money order and savings bank staff, owing to ill-health, is leaving by the mail train to-morrow morning for an extended tour of the Australian States. Mr. Craddock is leaving New Zealand by the Moeraki. At Parliament Buildings on Wednesday a social function was held, at which the private secretaries to Cabinet Ministers farewelled and made a handsome presentation to Mr. J. H. McAlister (late private secretary to the Minister for Public Works), who retired on superannuation on March 31. Mr. Malcolm Niccol, who for some 20 years has held the office of grand secretary of the Masonic Grand Lodge of New Zealand, with peripatetic residence in the four chief cities of the Dominion for periods of two years, and has now practically retired, has taken up his home in Auckland. The Rev. Thomas McDonald, whose death occurred at Christchurch, had charge of the Hawera Presbyterian Church for six or seven years from 1894. Prior to that he had been for some years minister for the Presbyterian Church at Waverley. From Hawera he went to Waipukurau, and later was appointed to the charge of St. Peter’s, Christchurch. He resigned from the church recently, and at the time of hia death was doing church work in the suburbs of Criatchurch.