PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 July 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. J. Bowie, headmaster of the Wairoa district school for the past seventeen years, has been appointed master of the Milton High School.

Word has been received in Dunedin that the Rev. Samuel Collier, of Manchester, who visited New Zealand last year, died in England on -Tune 2. Mr. Collier was a distinguished Minister of the Methodist Church and a notable so. cial worker in England. The death of Mrs. Burke, relict of the late Mr. William Burke, a well-known Lowgarth settler, took place at Stratford on Wednesday. She had been a sufferer from illness for some time past. She is survived by seven sons and one daughter, viz.: Mr. Richard Burke (New Plymouth), Mr. J. Burke (Eltham), Mr. A. S. Burke (Stratford), Mr. H. Burke Palmerston North), Mr. A. T. Burke (Lowgarth), Messrs. Robert and Norman Burke (Hawera Plains), and Mrs. J. W. J. Gardiner (whose residence at New I’lvmouth was recently destroyed by fire).

Reference to the death of Mr William Newman was made at yesterday’s meeting of the New Plymouth Harbor Board by the chairman (Mr. Newton King), lie said that the town had lost one of its best citizens in Mr. Newman, who was a good lover of the harbor and being fully conversant with shipping affairs was able to give useful advice. Taranaki had suffered a great loss by his death. On the chairman’s motion the board passed a vote of sympathy with Mrs. Newman.