PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 May 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. E. S. Bayley, of Wellington, is spending a few (lays in New Plymouth.

Mr. Lee, of Messrs. Blair Mason, Lee and Owen, left yesterday for the South Island.

A cable from New York states that the Premier (Mr. W. F. Massey) sailed for England by the Carmania yesterday. A cable from London says Mr. Walter Long, who until recently was First Lord of the Admiralty, has accepted a Viscountcy.

Mr. C. L. Newham, of the staff of the Christchurch Press, who was for ten years editor of the Timaru Post, died on Saturday morning last after, an illness of some months’ duration. The Rev. J. L. Gray and Mr*. Gray, of Eltham, have decided to take up missionary work in India, though the date of their departure from Eltham has not yet beert decided upon. Mr. Orr Walker, S.M., who presided at the sitting of the Magistrate’s Court in Hawera on Tuesday for the first time, was welcomed by Mr. Ryan, president of the Law -Society, on behalf of the local Bar.

Mr. W. A. George, a well-known business man of Palmerston North, died on Saturday afternoon at the age of fiftyfour years. He had been a resident of the town for over thirty years, and although he took no part in public life, he had a wide circle of friends, who will regret to hear of his death.

It is announced that the following have been elected members of the General Council of Education representatives of the education boards, South Island: William Alexander Banks, David Thomas Fleming; male teachers, secondary and technical schools, Frank Ryde Campbell; female teachers, secondary and technical schoole, Ne*:ie Euphemia Cot-d.

Mr. F. E. Riddiford, who died at Masterton this week, was a son of the late Mr. F. Riddiford, of Hawera, and Mrs. Riddiford, who is now in England, and was 33 years of age. He was educated at Wanganui College, and afterwards went to Cambridge, where he spent some years in studying law and medicine, returning to New Zealand about ten years ago. Mr. Riddiford engaged in sheep farming, and acquired a property at Bideford. He was a prominent figure in the public affairs of the district, and took a keen interest in the Polo Club and Bideford Sports Club. Death was due to meningitis (brain fever). The deceased leaves a widow, formerly Miss Easton, an English lady, and two young daughters.