PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 September 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mrs. T. A. Askew, late of Waverley, died in Wellington on Thursday last. Mr. W. Gee, chief postmaster at Auckland, is shortly to retire on superannuation.

A London message reports the death of Nat Robinson, a famous jockey in the nineties.

Mr. J. 8. Connett was appointed by the Taranaki County Council at yesterday's meeting as delegate to the annual Counties’ Conference on the 2Sth inst. A Reuter Press cable announces the death, at Hove, of the Russian actress Princess Bariatinsky, as the result of privations during the revolution in Russia, whence she narrowly escaped ppon the advent of the Bolsheviks. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph states that M. Clemenceau’s intention of returning to politics, indicated by his intention of commencing a newspaper, when Parliament meets, with MM. Mandel, Ignase and Tardieu as writers, is being much discussed. It is hinted that there will t>e attacks against M. Briand in association with M. Poincare.-—Cable message.

Prior to the commencement of business at the annual meeting of the Kaupokonui Dairy Company, a resolution was passed placing on record the shareholders’ appreciation of the services rendered the company and the dairying industry of the Dominion by the late Mr. W. D, Powdrett, and it was resolved to forward a vote of sympathy to his relatives. In moving the resolution the chairman said that the late Mr. Powdrell had been a director for the past fourteen or fifteen years, during a good portion of which he had been chairman. He had proved to be a very able chairman, and had never spared himself in the interests of the party or of the dairying industry of the Dominion. A vote of sympathy was also passed with the relatives of the late Mr. Wm. Hair, who had been a director for fourteen or fifteen years, though not a director qt the time of hia death.