PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 May 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Two old residents of Auckland, in the person of Mrs. Bridget Best and Mrs. Jane Rogers, died this week. The former was eighty-three and the latter ninety years of age.

Mr. W. T. Jennings, M.P., leaves New Plymouth on Wednesday morning for Auckland, en route to England. ' Mr. Jennings leaves Auckland on Thursday by the Riverina for Sydney.

Mr. L. Mcllvride,, who contested the Patea by-election in the Labor Party’s interest, has, in accordance with the promise given by the Prime Minister in the House, been readmitted to the railway service, of which he was formerly a member, and has commenced work at Napier. Mr. C. J. Belcher, chairman oi the Eltham County Council, intimated at Saturday’s meeting of the counc : J that he had resigned his position as a member of the executive of the Taranaki Progress League, because he had found that he could not act as a member < f that league as Well as on the HydroElectric League, on account of the two leagues being at cross-purposes. The question of nominating another sentative was deferred indefinitely. Another of the fast-diminishing band of early colonists, Mrs. Jane Rogers, died at Otahuhu, on Tuesday, aged 95. Mrs. Rogers was born at Roscommon, Ireland, and arrived at Auckland about 60 years ago in the ship Euphrates, with her husband, Color-Sergeant Henry Kevey, of the Gsth Regiment. He was on service during the war which broke out in Taranaki in 1860. He died in the Auckland Hospital about six year's after his arrival in New Zealand. About two years later Mrs. Kevey married Mr. Edward Rogers, with whom she went to the Thames goldfields in 1867, remaining there for six years. Since then she has resided at Otahuhu. Mr. Rogers died some time ago. Mrs. Rogers is survived by four sons and one daughter, twenty-one grandchildren, and twenty-three great-grandchildren. ’