PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 July 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Archdeacon Evans returned from Auckland yesterday morning. Mr. Newton King was a passenger for the north, by the Rarawa last night. At Henrietta Street registry office, London, on Monday, Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough, married Lieut.-Colonel Balsan, a retired French soldier, who obtained a divorce from his first wife. The director of the live stock division of the Department of Agriculture (Lieut.-Colonel A. R. Young, M.R.C.V.S.) arrived in New Plymouth by the mail train last night on departmental business.

The Hon. C. J. Parr (Minister of Education) left New Plymouth yesterday morning en route to Hawera, and after officiating at the opening of the Dominion Winter Show, departed for Wanganui. The Ministei continues the journey to Wellington to-day. Mr. Clark, of the Wanganui Post and Telegraph Department, has been transferred on promotion to Stratford as senior clerk and telegraphist. During his past seven years’ residence in Wanganui Mr. Clark has taken a prominent part in local sport, and will be greatly missed in cricket and hockey circles (says the Wanganui Chronicle). Mr. R. Sage (secretary of the Hawera Chamber of Commerce) has received advice from the Controller of Customs that Mr. M. J. McGahey has been appointed Collector of Customs at Patea. Mr. McGahey will frequently visit Hawera for the purpose of passing Customs entries for the town and district. A resolution of condolence and sympathy was passed to the relatives of the late Mr. W. L. Newman at last night’s meeting of the Pukekura Park Board. Members referred to the keen and lively interest the late Mr. Newman had taken in the improvement of the park, and stated that his death had been a material loss to the board.

The death occurred on Sunday at the Auckland Hospital, of Mr. Alfred George Watson, one of the oldest naval veterans in Auckland, at the advanced age of 81. Mr. Watson had had an interesting career. As a young man he served in the British Navy under Admiral Lord Fisher, then a lieutenant. He was a member of the crew of the first ironclad warship which Britain possessed, and also of the first turret ship launched in British waters. He came to New Zealand with the flying squadron sent here during the latter part of the Maori War, and had resided mostly in the Auckland district for the past 50 years.