PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 August 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. J. Brown, of New Plymouth, left yesterday for Wellington to attend a conference of the butter committee.

Mr. W. F. Massey joins the Niagara at Vancouver this month (says a cable from London). The Wairarapa Presbytery has nominated the Rev. George McNeur, of China, as Moderator of the General Assembly for 1922. —Press Association. Marshal Joffre is to make an official trip round the world. He will leave Paris at the end of next month, and visit Indo-China, Peking, Korea,, and

A Sydney cablegram states that Air. Tudor has announced that his health continues unsatisfactory and that he feels unable to continue the leadership of the Labor Party. Air. H. A. Asplin, clerk of the Feilding Freezing Co., died suddenly yesterday morning. He was 42 and had been ailing, probably from heart trouble, i He leaves a widow.

Air. A. A. Jones, of the Wools ton Fire Brigade, has been appointed second man at the New Plymouth fire station, and takes up his duties at the end of the month.

Air. S. Campbell, chairman of the Egmont County Council, has been appointed to represent the council at the annual conference of the New Zealand 'Counties’ Association, which will be held at Wellington on September 28. Air. John Dwyer, who recently retired on superannuation from the position of superintendent of the Canterbury Police Force, was met by a representative gathering of citizens in Christchurch on Monday and presented with an illuminated address, a cheque for £7'oo, and an oak bedroom suite for Mrs. Dwyer.

Mr. D. J. Williams has been connected with the affairs of the Mere Alere Dairy Company for the past 25 years, and after the annual meeting on Saturday, a banquet was held in his honor, and an address appreciative of his services to the company and district presented to him.

Members of the Inglewood County Council made reference at yesterday’s meeting to the death of Air. W. E. Percival, and in regretting the loss of a valuable citizen, councillors remarked on Air. Percival’s sterling qualities and worth to the community. On the motion of the chairman (Mr. A. Corkill) and Cr. G. Capper the council resolved to place on record their appreciation of the late Air. Percival’s services to the district, and also to send a letter of condolence to the relatives of deceased.

Air. Oscar Lines, chief inspector of the Bank of New South Wales, has been appointed by the board general manager of the bank as from the commencement of the present month, in succession to the late Sir John Russell French. Air. C. G. Alford, who was appointed acting-general manager, following the death of Sir John Russell French, and whose retirement was to have taken place on the day (June 30) his chief died, now retires. Air. Lines assumed control last week. Writes the Wanganui Chronicle: We arc prompted to rebel when Death, with tragic swiftness, snatches from our midst such a one as Colin C. Hutton. A man of brilliant attainments, high ideals, and irreproachable character, Air. Hutton commanded the unwavering confidence and unbounded respect of bis fellow citizens. Not only was he, in the highest sense, an ornament to his profession, but he was also a worthy example of all that is comprehended in the finest attributes of British citizenship. Mr. Hutton was married in 1904 to Miss Fleming, a daughter of a woHknown Otago family, and a sister to Mr. Fleming, barrister and solicitor, at one time practising in Wanganui, but now at Patea. There is a family of seven, four girls and three boys, the eldest of whom are at school. Air. Hutton hai three brothers, one the manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Inglewood, another is Alayor of Carterton, and a third is in India. His sister is Mrs. Cockayne, wife of Dr. Cockayne, of the Agricultural Department. Air. Hutton’s father was postmaster at Oamaru. Dunedin, and Wellington.