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PERSONAL.

The Minister of Agriculture (the Hon. W. Nosworthy) spent yesterday at Stratford. Tho Minister returns to Wellington this morning.

Mr. A. Corkill, chairman of the Inglewood County Council, was a visitor to the Winter Show at New Plymouth yesterday.

Mr. J. B. Henry, inspector of the Bank of New Zealand for th* past three years, formerly manager for the bank at Masterton, has been appointed manager of the Wellington branch.

Mr. John Campbell Hodges, who has just died at Merton, arrived in Dunedin in 1862, and was on the staff of the Bank of New Zealand for 40 years, being manager of the branch at Mosgiel for a quarter of a century. The Hon. G. J. Anderson (Minister for Mines) yesterday made a tour of the mining townships of the Buller district, including Denniston, Granity, Millerton, Stockton, and Seddonville.— Press Association.

Dr. Benson, professor of geology at Otago University, arrived in New Plymouth by the mail train last night. Dr. Benson has come here at the invitation of the Paritutu Protection League to examine, on behalf of the league, the stone of Paritutu. The late Mr. William Andrew’ Webster, who died at Rawene, Hokianga, last week, at the age of 61, was a member of an old New Zealand family. His father, the late Mr. William Webster, came to New Zealand from Scotland in IS4O, with the New Zealand Company party of settlers which was headed by Mr. Edward Gibbon Wakefield, and Cblonel William Wakefield.

At the recent, meeting of the committee of the Carnegie Institute the following resoluion was passed:—“The Library Committee regrets that Mr. P. J. H. White finds it impossible, owing to other calls on his time to retain his position as representative of the council on this committee and, in view of his many years’ service and the valuable work he has done for the library and museum, recommends the council to appoint him a life member of the library.” This recommendation was, adopted by the Borough Council on Monday evening. Tire late Mrs. Anu Carrick, whose death occurred at Waitara on Sunday night, was one of the rapidly lesseningband of Taranaki pioneers. Mrs. Carrick was the eldest daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Cxenham, being born in the Parish of Clawton, near Holsworthy, Devon, and left England with her parents and a numerous body of relatives in March, 1841, by the barque Amelia Thompson, arriving at Moturoa, New Plymouth, on the September following. Like other old identities she had passed through many anxious times of stress and danger in the early days of the settlement. Her late husband, Mr. John Carrick, was in business in New Plymouth as a chemist, but died many years ago. The deceased had been a resident of Waitara East for the past 50 years, being one of the pioneer residents of that district, and many old friends in and around Waitara will regret the passing of a good neighbor and kindly natnred woman, a type so often met with in the old identity stock. She is survived by four daughters and one son, Mesdames H. Law (Hokianga), W. Hamblvn (Midhirst), Vickery (Tikorangi),’ A. Western (Hawera). and Mr. Morton Carrick (Waitara).

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Taranaki Daily News, 10 June 1921, Page 4

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PERSONAL. Taranaki Daily News, 10 June 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL. Taranaki Daily News, 10 June 1921, Page 4

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