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Taranaki Daily News, 11 October 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. S. G. Smith, M.P., who spent the week-end in New Plymouth, returns to Wellington to-day. The Governor-General will visit Manaia on the 27 th instant, and is to be asked to unveil the monument in the Octagon to the fallen soldiers of the district. Mr. O. Hawken, M.P. for Egmont, and Mr. E. Dixon, M.P. for Patea, who have been spending the week-end in Taranaki, returned to Wellington yesterday. The Russian Princess Xenia, aged 18, has married William Leeds, aged 19, the son o-f a late American millionaire, at Paris.

Mr. A. E. Moss, of Kaponga, has been advised that he has been admitted as an associate member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.

Mr. G. F. Robinson, who left New Plymouth about two years ago to reside in Christchurch, is paying a visit to New Plymouth with his daughter, Mrs. Hansen. They leave for Auckland tonight.

The golden wedding was celebrated at their residence, 105 Kelburn Parade, Wellington, on Friday, of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Hutton, who were married at Patea on September 23, 1871, by the Rev. W. C. Oliver. Mr. Hutton was at the time postmaster at Patea. ■Mr. Massey was warmly welcomed at a civic reception at Wellington yesterday. In the course of his remarks he said New Zealand would be represented at the Disarmament Conference. He would be unable to go himself, but would make an early announcement on the subject.—Press Association. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Fitzherbert, of Palmerston North, and late of New Plymouth, who have ‘been on a trip to England, principally for the benefit of Mr. FitZherbert’s health, >will return to New Zealand by the Rim-utaka in. December next. Mr.' Fitzherbert has completely regained his health as the result of the trip. A pen picture of Mr. W. F. Massey from the Bradford Daily Telegraph: “Tall, stout, with keen blue eyes and a florid complexion, Mr. Massey has a personality which marks him as a man among men, and which has helped him to work his way up to the highest position in New Zealand. Since coming to England he has had a somewhat strenuous time, and a nature which cannot take things easy has taken its toll of him, for he is noticeably rather weary and in need .of a rest from public affairs.” And then the writer remarks: “Is it this hard work, I wonder, which has caused a diminution in weight ? When passing through Mr. Francis Willey’s warehouse the Prime Minister stepped on to a weighing machine. When the balance was finally made the machine recorded 17st 71b. Turning to his secretary (Mr. F. D. Thomson) the Premier said, in tones of mock glee: ‘What do you think I have lost, Thomson ? I weigh ten pounds less than when I left home.’ ”

Mrs. E. J. Richmond, a daughter of the late Major Parris, died at Havelock North on Sunday. Mrs. Richmond, who was born at New Plymouth in 1844, was the widow of the late Mr. Henry Robert Richmond, at one time superintendent of the province of Taranaki, and amember of the Richmond-Atkinson fainly group, of -whom Mr, Justice Richmond and Sir Harry Atkinson were the most widely known. Early in her life Mrs. E. J. Richmond entered keenly into social and charitable work, particularly in regard to the women inreates of prisons. Mrs. Richmond took a keen interest in education, and some 35 years ago sat with Miss Heywood as< a inember of the Taranaki Education Board, this being the first occasion in New Zealand on which such a position was filled by a woman. Mrs. Richmond is survived by a daughter (Mrs. Crompton Smith, of Havelock North), and by a son (Mr. H. P. solicitor,!of