PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 August 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

■Dr. J. C. Doekrill, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Dockrill, of New Plymouth, expects to remain for another year in England, w*here he is taking a course of postgraduate study at St. John’s Hospital, Lewisham.

Among the postal officers retiring next month is Mr. T. B. Salmon, after 47 yeans’ service. He was for some time, postmaster at Bluff, and latterly has been relieving chief postmaster for the South Island.

Mr. F. Meldrum. New College, Oxford (New Zealand Rhodes scholar, 1'917), has passed the examination for the B.C.L. degree with honors. Mr. Meldrum is a son of Colonel Meldrum, of New Plymouth.

Mr. William Duncan Kibblewhite, a very old settler, died on Friday afternoon at Wellington. The late Mr Kibble white was born in Wellington in 1843. He was well known as a bowler in Palmerston North, Wanganui, Masterton, and Wellington. His wife predeceased him some years ago. Mr. G. C. Smith, son of Mr. J. Cathais Smith, of Hawera, has received notice of his appointment to a responsible position on the teaching staff of the Heretaunga School, Havelock North. Mr. Smith has been teaching at the Croydon School, Wellington, for the past two terms.

A large and representative gathering was held at Wellington on Saturday to convey to Sir James Carroll the good wishes of his friends on the occasion of his 64th birthday. The Hoiu J. G. Coates, the Hon. D. H. Guthrie, Mr. T. M. Wilford, Mr. McCallum, and other M.P.’s and many prominent citizens were present. Sir James Carroll’s long service to the country was eulogised by Mr. M. Carr, who presented him with a gold mascot. Sir James Carroll, returning thanks, said that perhaps at the present time there was a tendency to make life too materialistic, for after all the crowning ileesing of life was friendship and yet in >re friendship.-—Press Association. The death occurred at New Plymouth yesterday of Mrs. O. W. Sole, an old and esteemed resklent of New Plymouth. The deceased lady, vho was the eldest daughter of the late Mr. Joseph Ward, was born in New Plymouth 59 years ago, and had always resided in the town. She had been ailing for some time, never having properly recovered from a severe attack of influenza contracted while on a visit to Wangarui some months ago. She is survived by her husband and a family of four daughters—Mesdames P. Wallace (Waverley), J. McPherson (Masterton), and Misses Eva and Una Sole—who have the sincerest sympathy of all in their sad bereavement.