PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 29 April 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr. S. W. Fitzherbert, late of New Plymouth, in March last was admitted at Honolulu as aitorney-at-law and proctor of the United States of America.

Mr. J. H. Whitley has been elected Speaker of the House of Commons. He is a cotton spinner at Halifax, Yorkshire, and has been a member of the House of Commons since 1900. He has been Deputy-Speaker since 1911. The scheme for better relations between employers and workers, known as the Whitley scheme, bears his name, he having been chairman of the committee which drew it up. Mr. Molineux Guy, well-known in New Plymouth, writing to a friend in New Plymouth from Auckland, states he has been in almost every country in Europe, and latterly was banana planting with relatives in Queensland. He and his friend, the late Mr. Harold Jennings, met in London when the war started, and both joined the London Scottish, Mr. Guy afterwards obtaining a commission in the Navy and Mr. Jennings a lieutenancy in the Royal Field Artillery. A cable from Melbourne says Mr. W. M. Hughes (Federal Premier) has left for Adelaide, where he joins his steamer for London to attend the Imperial Conference.

The Rev. F. P. Fendall gave his farewell address at Rangiora last Sunday, after being vicar of the parish for 29 years. He will take charge of the cure at Glenmark. A welcome was extended to Mr. J. C. Thompson, the newlyappointed church organist. According to a cable message in the Australian papers, it is Sir Paul Ogden Lawrence, of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice, and not Sir A. T. Lawrence, who has been appointed Lord Chief Justice in succession to the Earl of Reading, who became Viceroy of India. Sir Paul Lawrence, who is 59 years of age, was called to the Bar at Lincoln Inn in 1882. He became King’s Counsel in 1892, a Bencher in 1900, and was chairman of the General Council of the Bar from 1913 to 1918. He was appointed to the Chancery Division in 1918.—Exchange. New Zealand’s premier jockey. Hector Gray, said to be the first jockey from this Dominion-Ho receive a retainer to ride in England, left for the Old Country, via America, on Wednesday night. He hopes to return in time for the New Zealand Cup meeting. Gray was given a cordial send-off at a gathering over which Mr. T. B. Dwan presided. Apologies were received from Sir Francis Bell (Acting-Prime Minister) and others. Mr. W. Perry (president of the Returned Soldiers’ Association), speaking on behalf of the Rugby footballers and others, wished Gray bon voyage and expressed a hope that he would add further to his latfrels by riding the winner of the English Derby. The departing guort appropriately.