PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 May 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. J. Arthur, manager of the New Plymouth gas works, is indisposed. Mr. Newton King is suffering from a severe cold, and has been confined to his-home for the last day or two.

A cable from London says the late Mr. Haddon Chambers, the Australian dramatist, died intestate. He left £9195. Mr. A. D. McLeod, M.P., who has been laid up in a private hospital in Martinborough, is able to travel, and has gone to Auckland to recuperate. Mr. A. W. Beale, head teller at the Bank of New South Wales in Auckland has been transferred to Masterton as accountant.

Dr. T. G. Gray, assistant medical officer at Seacliff, has been appointed Medical Superintendent of the Mental Hospital, Nelson. At Thursday night’s meeting of the Management Committee of the New Zealand Rugby Union Air. G. W. Slade was re-elected chairman for the ensuing year. Commandant Middlemiss, of the New Plymouth Salvation Army, is due back in New Plymouth next week. Captain Green leaves New Plymouth for Wellington on Monday.

Mr. H. B. Burdekin, of Hawera, has be\n appointed the representative of the Taranaki Returned Soldiers’ Association on t\e executive of the Taranaki War Relief in succession to Air. E. H. SSpung, of Stratford.

Air. S. Alyerscough, who is examiner in practical music for the Trinity Coliege of Music, London, will leave San Francisc4 for New Zealand on June 24, and vCH start his work iu Auckland aboyf July 12. A largely-attended meeting of the congregation of St. Stephen's Church, Pon/sonby (Auckland), unanimously decided to extend a call to the vacant pastorate of the church to the Rev. Fraser B. Barton, 8.A., of Westmere, Wanganui.

Air. W. T. Jennings, M.P. for Waitomo, will probably leave for England by the Port Hacking next Saturday He proposes to visit Ireland, France and Gallipoli. One of his sons is buried in Ireland and another in Gallipoli. ' Mr. 'George Plummer, of the firm of Hill and Plummer, Ltd., who arrived in New Zealand with the Albertland settlers, died suddenly at Auckland on Monday evening, at the age of eightyone years.

A Press' message from Timaru says the Hon. C. J. Parr (Minister of Health and Education) was at Timaru yesterday. The Minister opened a nurses’ hostel, which has just been erected at a cost of £12,090 at the Timaru hospital. The Minister left later for Christchurch.

Air. A. J. C. Talbot, superintendent of the Wellington Telegraph Office, who has just completed forty years’ continuous service, is retiring at the end of the month (says a Press telegram from Wellington). Mr. Talbot is one of the best known and most popular officers in the P. and T. service. He has been five and a half years in command and before that was in Dunedin for some years and was in charge at Christchurch for four years. Mr. Samuel John Relf, a very old colonist, aged 73, died at Palmerston North on Thursday. Born at Barringham, Kent, deceased came to the Dominion in 1857, and took up residence at Nelson. Later he was engaged in railway formation work in the Hawke’s Bay district, and subsequently followed the occupations of ploughman, shearer, and bushfeller. In 1878 deceased took up a bush

section on the Rangitikei Line, close to Palmerston North, which he developed and left as a first-class farm, when he retired and went to live in Palmerston North. Borough. Dr. Hertz, the Chief Rabbi of the Empire, who ig due to arrive at Wellington on Monday, is at present on a pastoral tour of the British Dominions, in furtherance of a movement headed by Mr. Lionel de Rothschild to raise 1,000,000 dollars for religious purposes, in memory of the Jewish brethren who fell during the war and as a thanksgiving for those who were spared. He is accompanied by Air. Albert Woolf, 0.8. E., vice-president of the United Synagogue,

and Mr. A. H. Valentine, secretary. Dr. Hertz was a passenger aboard the Aloeraki, which left Sydney for Wellington on Thursday.

The appointment of Air. A. Esam to the position of Controller of the Mortgage Division of the Public Trust Office, recently vacated by Air. W. A. Fordham,

retired on superannuation, is announced, Mr. Esam is the only son of the late Mr. C. G. Esam, solicitor, formerly of Alarton, in whose office he was for a long period prior to joining the service. Air. Esam was for a number of years connected with the State Advances Office, but for the past four years has been on the Legal Division of the Public Trust Office dealing specially with mortgage work and local body loans work. Besides possession of a thorough knowledge of general ?onveyancing work, he has specialised in local body loans work, and is looked upon as an expert in that particular branch. The late Airs. Alfred George, who died on Monday, came to New Plymouth by the ship Cashmere in April. 1857, with Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Pen-/ warden, whose second daughter she was. The Penwarden family is very well known and highly respected in the district, the surviving members being Airs. Ford, of Courtenay Street, Airs. J. Alace, of Omata, Miss C. Penwarden, Omata, Air. T. Penwarden, Oakura, Mr. J. Penwarden, Fitzroy, and Air. D. Penwarden, Omata. The deceased lady leaves a widower and a family of three sons, besides 15 grandchildren and a greatgrandson. The Pen warden family settled at Omata, and when Airs. George married she remained in the same locality

A very pleasant gathering took place in the Chief Post Office, Hamilton, on Saturday, when members of the staff assembled to bid farewell to Air W. H. G. Brown, who has been promoted, and is on transfer to New Plymouth. In presenting Mr. Brown with a travelling bag, and for Airs. Brown a Doulton bowl, Air. E. G. Stapp, chief postmaster, expressed general regret at the departure of this officer, who had proved Siuch an efficient and tustworthy member of the department. His action in assisting juniors was to be commended, and he had done much for his fellow officers in the very active interest he had taken in the affairs of the Post and Telegraph Officers’ Association. Messrs. Cowles, Moore, Davies, and Harris also stressed the many good qualities of the recipient. Mr. Brown feelingly replied.