PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 May 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. W. J. Tristram has resigned his office of secretary to the Eltham Racing Club.

A London message says that Dame Melba will sail in the Megantic on June 4 for New York, en route to Australia.

Mr. Cecil King, of Nelson, formerly manager of the New Plymouth branch of the National Bank, is spending a few days in New Plymouth.

The vicar of St. Barnabas, Auckland, Canon E. J. McFarland, has placed his resignation in the hands oi the Bishop, to take effect from December 31 next. He has taken this step for health reasons.

The Wellington Post says: “It is a fact not without significance that Mr. G. Mitchell, M.P. for Wellington South, and a fighter for more permanent con) ditions of employment on the waterfront, topped the election returns in popular representation on the Wellington Harbor Board.

A Press telegram from Dunedin says the Minister of Education (the Hon. C. J. Parr), who has been on a visit to Dunedin in connection with departmental matters, will leave for Timaru to-day, where he opens the nurses’ home. He will later have a consultation with the Hospital Board. Mr. Parr opens a new school near Christchurch on Saturday and leaves by ferry the same evening for Wellington.

A Maori war veteran, Mr. J. W. Robinson, died at Wellington on Tuesday. He was for many years in the old D Battery, in which he had the rank of sergeant-major. The deceased was an old Wellington resident, but was bom in Wanganui. He had a number of hotels in his time, including the Masonic Hotel, Palmerston North, Princess Hotel, Tory Street, the Post Office Hotel, Woodville, and the Renwick Arms, Marlborough.

There passed away on Wednesday at Victoria Valley, Mangonui, another of our old colonists in the person of Mr. Henry P. Rothall, at the advanced age of 80 years. Mr. Rothall was well and favorably known throughout the Bay of Islands district, where he resided for the past <4O years, and is survived by three daughters—Mrs. E. A. Alger, Stratford; Mrs. C. J. Harrison, Victoria Valley, Mangonui; and Mrs. .R. J. Miekle, Manakau, to whom much sympathy is extended in their bereavement.

Farrow’s Bank whiqh is now being heard at the Guildhall, has brought into prominer>:ie the young New Zealander, Mr. William A. Read, who was once in business in Wanganui, and is now a member of the firm of Norton, Read, and Company, of New York and London. Mr. Read opened up negotiations for obtaining a controlling interest in the banking institution in consideration of a sum of £500,000, and it was owing to his investigations that the real position of affairs was disclosed. The Evening News, in giving a brief account of his career siuce he left the Dominion, says he is a man of such force of character that lie Is certain to be heard of ere long again.

The Rev. Dr. 3. H. Hertz, Chief Rabbi of the united Hebrew congregations of the British Empire, will arrive in Wellington on Monday next. He will be accompanied by Mr. Albert M. Woolf, 0.8. E., vice-president of the United Synagogue of London, and Mr. A. H. Valentine, who is acting in connection with the Jewish war memorial. The Chief Rabbi and his party will be met by ministers, officials, and representative members of the Wellington congregation at the ship’s, side; on Tuesday there will be a civic reception at the Town Hall, and on Wednesday night a conversazione will be held in the Town Hall Concert Chamber. Later, Dr. Hertz will pay an official visit to the Acting-Prime Minister (Sir Francis