PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 June 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. Newton King left yesterday for Wellington on Harbor Board business. Miss Birch, field organising secretary of the Y.W.C.A., left yesterday for Wellington. Mr. 3. Campbell was yesterday reelected chairman of the Egmont County Council.

Mr. Derek Denny-Brown, of New Plymouth, was among the successful candidates in the first professional medical examination of the University of New Zealand, he having passed with distinction.

Mr. A. L. Parsons, well-known for many years as manager in Christchurch for the New Zealand Insurant/ Company, and latterly manager in Perth, W.A., has returned to New Zealand, having been appointed acting-inpsector at the head office of the company in Auckland.

Mr. G. H Barrett, for the past sixteen years leading carpenter on the Wanganui section of railway, embracing from New Plymouth to Paraparaumu. has been promoted to the position cf bridge inspector at Greymouith. During the time Mr. Barrett has been in this district, he has carried out many large and important works. Mr. Alan C. Tytheridge, M.A., lata of the Christchurch Press staff, and well known a few years ago in Christchurch musical circles as a clever pianist, has recently received the appointment of Professor of English at the Tokio College of Commerce, in Japan. The local members of the Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiment who served under Brigadier-General Meldrum, C. 8., C.M.G., D. 5.0., propose to tender a complimentary smoke concert to that distinguished officer next week at the New Plymouth Soldiers’ Club. General Meldrum is taking up his residence in New Plymouth.

The death of Mr. Horace, Baxter, comptroller of railway stores, is announced in a telegram from Wellington Mr. Baxter joined the railway service at the age of 16 and served in Dunedin, Leeston, Oxford, Timarm Invercargill and Christchurch. In 1906 he was appointed comptroller of stores, a position he held until his death at the age of 61. He is survived by his widow and one son.

When General Pau was making a tour of this country rather more than two years ago, he sent a message to Mrs. Frank Moeller, of Napier, expressing the desire that she should meet him at Palmerston North when he was passing through, in order that he might have the opportunity of personally conveying to her the appreciation of the French Government and people of the work she had done for the women and children of Rheims during the war. Mrs. Moeller’s grand-uncle was Marechai Jourdan, orie of the most distinguished soldiers in French history and by the last mail she received from General Pau a charming letter, in which he says he has much pleasure in forwarding her two engravings of her