PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 May 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. O. J. Hawken, M.P., leaves for Wellington this morning to attend a meeting of the Producers’ Committee.

The Rev. James Paterson, of Wellington, celebrated on Saturday his 91st birthday. Mr. Chas. E. Tyrell, who has been attached to the Wellington Telegraph Office for the past 25 years, has been transferred to Stratford.

The many friends of Mr. J. R. Corrigans will learn with regret that his state of health is causing his friends grave anxiety.

Inspector D. D. Hutton, of New Plymouth, who has been absent in Wellington for a few days in connection with police mattera affecting this district, returned on Saturday night.

A Gfiristchurch message reports that Mr. V. G. Day, S.M., who has been appointed president of the Assessment Court, was farewelled yesterday by a large gathering of the Christchurch Bar.

Mr. William Henry Mandeno, an old resident-of Te Awamutu, died on Friday, in his 70th year, at Thames. Mr. Mandeno was boru in Northamptonshire, England, in 18'52, and after his arrival in New Zealand settled at Oakland Farm, in the Rangiaohia district, in 1885. The death is recorded in the Home papers of Mr. A. G. Sprigg, editor of the Leicester Mail, who was one of the delegates at the Imperial Press Conference in Canada last year, and of Sir Maitland Park, editor of the Cape Times, who was a delegate at the first Imperial Press Conference, held in England in 1909.

The Rev. T. A. Meyer and Mrs. Meyer, who for the past three years have been living at Hastings, have taken up their residence with their sons at New Plymouth. The Rev. Mr. Meyer was curate at Rotorua when he retired from active parish work about three years ago as the result of a stroke. Previously Mr. Meyer had been vicar in several parishes in the North and South Island, besides being for seventeen years in Christchurch.

The Wellington Evening Post’s correspondent states that Mrs. Alban J. Roberts (of Patea) has arrived in England to join her husband, who arrived in 1915, and who served throughout the war, in its early stages, with the R.N. A.S. After a general tour of England and Scotland Captain and Mrs.. Roberts are going out to South Africa, and in all likelihood they will make their home ultimately in Australia.