PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 August 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

At Patea, on Friday evening, a number of friends called on Mr. and Mrs. W. Davis and presented them with a case of cutlery to mark the occasion of their silver wedding anniversary. A vote of condolence with the rela : tives of the late Mr. W. E. Percival, late secretary to the company, was passed at last night’s meeting of the Lepperton Dairy Company.

Lord Northcliffe will remain in Rotorua till Friday, returning then to Auckland to catch the Sydney steamer. Tho visitor has stated that -he intends to return to New Zealand and spend some months in this country.

At a meeting of tho Southland Power Board it was decided to cable to Mr. Evan Parry, formerly Dominion chief electrical engineer, offering hiip. the appointment of resident engineer to the board to carry out the Southland electrification scheme. —Press Association.

Mrs. Standish, sen., of New Plymouth, met with a serious accident on Saturday afternoon. She was visiting a relative at the hospital and slipped on the floor of one of the corridors, breaking a thigh. Mrs. Standish is progressing as well as possible. Mr. J. Bronte Gatenby, formerly of Wanganui and Wellington, has been appointed . Professor of Zoology at. Trinity College, Dublin. For some time past Dr. Gatenby has been lecturer in cytology and senior assistant in zoology at London University.

Inspector Cassells was met by business men at Gisborne prior to his departure for Christchurch, who paid a tribute to his zealousness and presented him with a travelling rug and a well filled wallet for Mrs. Cassells. —Press Association.

Lieutenant-Colonel J. L Sleeman, 1.G.5., who filled the position of Director of Military Training in New Zealand for five years, in addition to receiving the C.M.G. in the recent King’s Birthday Honours, had conferred upon him Esquire of -the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, and the Order of the Sacred Treasure of Japan (thirdclass). Colonel Sleeman has now rejoined his regiment, the Royal Sussex.

Mr. W. Evetts, who has been in the employment of the New Plymouth Borough Council and other local bodies for many years, has tendered his resignation to the council owing to illness. The resignation was accepted last night, and a resolution was passed expressing regret at the reason for the resignation and the council’s thanks for many years’ valuable work. A Christchurch message reports the death of Mr. W. B. Clarkson, well known in commercial and sporting circles and a member of the meat exporting firm of W. B. Clarkson and Sons, after a short illhes% aged 43. Among the horses he was interested in were Clean -Sweep, the winner of the last Winter Cup, and the pacer Emilius, winner of one of the chief races at Addington this month. The death took place at Falkner near Melbourne on the loth inst. as tho result of an accident of an old Patea resident. Mr. Wm. Carey, brother of Mr. M. Carey, of Patea. The Melbourne Age of the I .’th ’nst. says: “An electric tram to Falkner last night crashed into a buggy at the level crossing at Gaffney Street. Coburg, smashing the buggy to pieces, and killing the occupant, William Carey, aged 45 years, a tramway employee, who lived with his wife and three children in Annie Street, Preston.”