PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 May 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. C. P. Skerrett, K.C., will leave Wellington on Tuesday for a holiday trip to England, and will probably be away till about the end of the year.

A London message states that Sir Robert Stout has been created a Privy Councillor.

A Washington telegram announces the death of the Chief Justice. Mr. Edward D. White, aged 76. It is expected exPresident W. 11. Taft will he the new Chief Justice.

A Sydney message reports the death of the Rev. Wools Rutledge, first president of the Methodist Conference in Australia. Constable F. Pidgeon has been transferred from Wellington to Normanby, to replace Constable Duddy, who was recently transferred to Rawene. It is reported in Wellington that Mr. T. B. Strong, M.A. Chief Inspector of Schools, and formerly Chief Inspector for the Wellington district, is to be the new Assistant Director of Education.

Mr. A. H. Parkinson, who had resigned his position as manager of Kaupokonui stores, has been re-appointed manager at an increased remuneration.

Since the removal of the Rev. A. A. Murray from the charge of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church. Auckland, on account of his views on infant baptism, the church has been without a permanent minister. A call to the Rev. R. Scott West, of Sydney, was unanimously sustained by the Auckland Presbytery this week. At the meeting of the Taranaki Rugby Union last night, Mr. Jas. McLeod, chairman of the Union, presented the gold medals awarded to the Bayly scholarship winners as follows:—19201921, J. H. Thomas; 1921-1922, A J. Thomas. Both boys are sons of Mr. R. Thomas, of the staff of the Stratford District High School. Mr. McLeod congratulated the winners, pointing out that it was a remarkable achievement for two members of one family to win the scholarship in successive years. It was appropriate that the scholarship should be won by boys from Stratford, where the gentleman whose memory it was to perpetuate had resided for several years. The Iftte Mr. Bayly had been held in high respect as a gentleman and a footballer. Thd scholarship was intended for competition among lads of average scholastic attainment, who took a serious interest in elean sport, particularly football, and who kept healthy and fit. This was the boy that made the best man, and the union would watch their careers with interest. The elder boy briefly replied.