PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 September 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Sir William Fraser is again indisposed.

A Sydney cablegram reports the death of Mr. Con. Wallace, ex-representative of West Sydney. Mr. F. M. B. Fisher, formerly of Wellington, has been selected by the AntiWaste League as its candidate for the. Hornsey seat, North London.

Mr. Alex. Neilson, who had resided in New Zealand for 61 years, died in Feilding on Saturday last, at the age of 78 years. Mr. John Scott, an old Auckland resident, died at his residence, Auckland, at the age of 64 years. Deceased was born in Belfast in 1857, and went to Auckland with his mother when a youth of 17. The death has occurred of an old resident of Tauranga, Mr. John Cramer Roberts, at the age of 74 years. The deceased was bom in Ireland.

The clerk of the House of Representatives has received a cablegram from Mr. W. T. Jennings, member for Waitomo, stating that he left London for Mew Zealand on September 10. At yesterday’s meeting of the Taranaki Hospital Board, the following applications for probationers were approved:—Miss J. O’Gorman (Christchurch), Miss R. Robinson (Blenheim), and Nliss W. L. Whittington (Otakeho). At yesterday’s meeting of the Taranaki Hospital Board, a letter was received from Miss Amy Wilson, tendering her resignation as sister on t'he hospital staff, as she had decided to enter St. Helen’s Hospital for further training. The resignation was received with regret. The death of the late Captain Russell, whose machine crashed at New Plymouth in November last, is feelingly referred to in a letter received by Mr. Horace Wilson from Lieutenant Briggs, who is now completing his arrangements for a flight from Australia to New Zeeland.

“Poor Russell, he can rest content that he was a pioneer, and that means much,” wrote Lieutenant Briggs. At the Auckland Hospital recently there died, at the age of 72 years, in the person of Mr. Harry Calthrop, a gentLnian well-known in sporting circles. The deceased had distinguished himself by catching the record kingfish, which he had stuffed and which he exhibited at the recent Panama Exposition, the fish being afterwards placed in the Christchurch Museum.

Mr. R. G. Whetter, inspector of primary schools in Hawke’s Bay, and formerly of New Plymouth, is retiring from his position at the end of the year. The Hawke’s Bay Education Board has de- i cided to invite Mr. Whetter to attend the December meeting in order that members may express to him personally their appreciation of his services. At the age of 93 years, Mr. 'William Leslie, an old settler of Paiwaka, died in Auckland this week. He was born in Shetland Islands, and firat saw New Zealand in 1852 as a sailor on a vessel which took potatoes from Tamaki to Melbourne for the gold diggings.