PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 September 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. Newton King is making splendid progress towards complete recovery. The death is reported from Sydney of Mr. Percy George Black, general manager and director of Burns, Philp, and company.

A Sydney message says that the Rev. Henry Clark, formerly of New Zealand, has been appointed president of the Baptist Union. He previously held the position in 1902.

At the meeting of the Board of Governors of the New Plymouth High Schools on Monday night it was resolved that a letter of condolence should be sent to Miss Drew, of the staff at the girls’ school, in connection with the recent death of her father, the Rev. Wm* Drew.

•Mr. George Nicholson, of Auckland, one of the selectors of the New Zealand football team, met' with an accident and has since been confined to his room at an hotel (says a Welligton telegram). It appears Mr. Nicholson, while standing near a kerb, was struck by a motor vehicle. He received medical attention and is now making good progress towards recovery.

The London Gazette announces that Captain Newenham Robert de la Cour Cornwall, R.D.. R.N.R., has been appointed to be Royal Naval Reserve aide de camp to the King, in succession to Captain Sir Bertram Hayes, K.C.M.G., D. 5.0., R.D., A.D.C., R.N.R., to date, June 30. Captain Cornwall is a New Zealander, having been born in Taranaki, and is at present in command of the Otaki, which left Naples on September 5, homeward hound from Australia. He has been in the service of the New Zealand Shipping Company for many years, going first as an apprentice, and has held command of many of this line’s vessels. During the war he served aboard various British battleships.

The death occurred last week nt the residence of his daughter, Mrs. William C. Anderson, at Karioi, on the Alain Trunk line, of Air. Thomas White, an old Aucklander and Alaori War veteran, at the age of 75 years. Deceased landed in Auckland in the ehip Shellah-mah with his parents, in the year 1859, at the age of 13 years. When quite a youth he was called to Drury with some of the first of the colonial troops to serve in the Alaori war. He afterwards served at Rangiriri and Orakau. He joined the New Zealand Armed Constabulary 50 years ago, and was stationed at Alexandra (now Pirongia), Kihikihi, and in the Taranaki district. When the armed constabulary was broken up he was drafted into the New Zealand police force, and was stationed in Auckland and in the Waikato district. He retired on superannuation in February, 1902.