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Taranaki Daily News, 17 June 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London cablegram reports that Lady Leigh is showing the first improvement after suffering from sleepy sickness for several months. Dr. Addison, formerly British Minister of Health and later a Minister without portfolio with a salary of £5OOO per annum, has resigned owing to the attitude of the campaigners for economy towards his salarv.

At yesterday's meeting of the New Plymouth sub-centre of the British Red Cross Society reference was made to the serious illness of Mr. W. L. Newman, who has been treasurer of the branch for some time past, and a vote of sympathy was passed by members. Mr. J. C. Evison, who will be remembered as headmaster at the Bell Block School some time ago and afterwards went to Niue Island, has lately been appointed the New Zealand GovernnMht’B Resident Commissioner in the island on the transfer of the former holder of the office to Rarotonga. A resolution of sympathy with the relatives of the late Major Lusk, of Auckland, and regret at his death, was passed at yesterday’s meeting of the Taranaki Farmers’ Union at Hawera. The chairman referred to the late Major Lusk’s long and efficient service to the community.

A Wellington message reports the death of Mr. Huntly John Harry Elliot, at one time a prominent member of the Public Service. He was born in Auckland in 1843 ami entered the service in 1858 under the Stafford Government. In 1877 he became L'nder-Secretary for Lands and later was given the administration of the Mines Department. He retired from the service in 1905 and' since has acted on several commissions. He was a prominent Freemason and took a keen interest in bowling.