PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 June 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. V. Lester has been appointed conductor of the Stratford Musical Society, and Mr. W. A. Betts will be the secretary of the society. Mr. R. Jensen, of Nelson, has been appointed manager of the Woodville Cooperative factory. There were fiftythree applicants for the position. A cable from Melbourne reports the death of Mr. James Page, a member of the House of Representatives, and Labor whip. He was found dead in bed.

Bro. J. Andrews, district chief ranger for the Taranaki Foresters, has been on a visit to Auckland, where he assisted as representative of Taranaki at the initiation of Lord Jellicoe as a member of the order. Professor J. MacMillan Brown and Dr. W. H. Symes will leave Auckland on June 23 to visit Samoa, Tonga and Fiji. Dr. Symes proposes making researches in connection with certain medical problems.

The Rev. Hugh Warren Austin, M.A., Queen’s College, Cambridge, has been appointed chaplain of the Collegiate School, Wanganui. Mr. Austin, who is at present curate of the Cathedral, Nelson, served as chaplain in the Imperial Army, 1915-1919, and was mentioned in dispatches.

Mr. John Louis McGuire, a very old and highly respected resident of Newtown, Sydney, died recently. The deceased was born in Taranaki, and went to Sydney 35 years ago, 19 of which he spent at Marrickville. For a period of 20 years Mr. McGuire was employed by the railway permanent way department, Darling Harbor, where he was highly respected for his many good qualities. The deceased gentleman was prominent in the Catholic world, and was president of the St. Piers’ branches of the St. Vincent de Paul and Sacred Heart Societies, x also of the Catholic Federation. His mother, well known to many old settlers, is now in her 92nd year, and resides at Petersham with her son Thomas.

Major T. N. Holmden, tyl.C., son-in-law of Sir Robert and Lady Stout, arrived in London recently from Mesopotamia. On Major Holmden’s return tp Mesopotamia from New Zealand in 1918 after the armistice with Turkey, he was selected from his regiment (the Worcestershire) for duty with the Civil Administration in Mesopotamia, and was appointed Judge of the Middle Euphrates, with headquarters at Hillah, near Babylon. Last November he was appointed Judge in Bagdad, and recently waa granted four months’ leave to go to England. Major Holmden has resigned his regular commission, and has been gazetted as a major in the Regular Reserve of Officers. Owing; to the coal strike he was called up tor duty with his regiment. He has not yet decided whether he will go back to Mesopotamia or return to New Zealand to practise.

The death took place in Auckland on Thursday of Mr. Te Heu Heu Tukino, M.L.C. Mr. Tukino wae appointed to the Legislative Council on May 27, 1918. He had been in ill-health for some time, and he passed away in a private hospital at Auckland on Wednesday. The deceased councillor was about 56 years of age. He was the head chief of the Tuwharetoa tribe, and had always been a great influence among hie people. It was mainly by his instrumentality that the Tongarirp Park and other blocks were transferred to the Crown. He exercised his influence during the war for the maintenance of the Maori battalion at the front. He was also instrumental in the making of tjie gift of 35,000 acres of land to the returned Maori soldiers. Mr. Tukino was of very high rank—a lineal descendant of the great Hau Haus of, Taupo. Throughout hie career he exercised his influence on behalf of the Crown. He lived at Lyall Bay, Wellington, in recent years, but his ancestral Jiome was at Tokaanu. and there it is he is likely to be laid to rest. Death has removed one of the last of the picturesque old Maori figures.