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Taranaki Daily News, 17 August 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. H. .1. Ryburn, a' recently-appoint-ed Rhodes scholar, left Christchurch this week for Cambridge University. Dr. Cleary, Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland, will leave next month on a trip to the Old Country. His Lordship is making the visit at the instance of his medical advisers, who tire hopeful that a change of scene and the sea voyagg will restore him to health. Messrs. J. B. Marx, J. Brown and G. S’angster left by the mail train yesterday morning for Wanganui, where they will represent Taranaki dairy companies at a conference which is being held with the Casein Co. to discuss casein prospects for the coming season. Mr. S. Cumming, postmaster at Masterton for the past six years, is retiring from the service at the end of September. Mr. Cumming, who is one of the most popular officers of the service, joined in Otago early in 1873, and ranks to-day as the oldest in the service. In a few months he would have completed 50 years. A Dunedin message says that it is understood Sir Thomas Mackenzie will shortly return from England to live* in Wellington. One reason he went Home was to arrange to reside in the Dominion. while still retaining his seat on the directorate of the National Mortgage Association.

Following on nn attack of pneumonia, the death occurred on Monday of Mr. Henry A. Smithson. M.A. (Oxon), a member of the teaching staff of Wellington College. He joined the staff of Wellington College in 1908. He was educated at Hailey bury Public School, England, where he was a prefect, and subsequently he graduated M.A. at Lincoln College, Oxford. Mr. G. W. Hean, of Bean’s proprietary medicines, returned to New Zealand from Australia with Mrs; Hean on Monday, Mr. Hean has dispensed of his interests in the business for a very substantial sum, retaining his New Zealand and foreign rights. It is Mr. Mean’s intention to again take up his residence in Wanganui and devote greater attention to |he New Zealand branch of his business.

General Orders issued by Defence Headquarters record the awards of the following decorations;—Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration, Lieut.Col. H. Holderness, Wellington Regiment; Lieut.-Col. G. T. Hall, Reserve of Officers; and Captain J. P. Thomson. Retired List. Meritorious Service Medal, Sergeant-Major Artificer W. E. Warren, R.N.Z.A. Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. Sergeant-Coxswain G. G. Norris, RjN.Z.A.

A naval veteran, well-known in Auckland, Mr. George Hill, popularly known as Mr. “Rowley” Hill, has celebrated the seventieth anniversary of the day on which he joined the Navy. Having joined on August 12, 1851, he was discharged with credit in 1862. Mr. Hill paid a call on Friday to the warship Philomel, where he was warmly welcomed. In the course of an adventurous career, he served against the Russian fleet in the Baltic at the time of the Crimean war; in the Black Sea at the taking of Sebastopol; in the Indian Mutiny; and with Garibaldi in Italy. After his discharge he came to New Zealand, where he served with distinction in the Forest Rangers, winning the New Zealand Cross and the Maori War Medal. Mr. Bill resides at Devonport.