PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 October 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The Rev. E. Palgrave Davy, of Auckland, superintendent of the New Zealand Children’s Mission, arrived in New Plymouth on Saturday evening.

Mr. H. J. D. Mahon has been unable to accept the position of headmaster of the new Grammar School at Auckland owing to ill-health. The position will be offered .to the next acceptable candidate, but his name is withheld.

An Oamaru telegram reports the death of Mr. Wm. Gardner,' senr., aged 76, who went to Oamaru with his parents in the early days of the settlement and has been actively engaged in pastoral pursuits. He was a well-known breeder of merino sheep.

The death occurred recently of Mrs. McGowan, widow of Mr. John McGowan, formerly Valuer-General and Commissioner of Taxes. The late Mrs. McGowan, who was born in New Zealand,. and had resided in Wellington for a considerable number of years, was a daughter of the late Rev. Mr. Ward, who arrived in New Zealand in 1844. Mrs. McGowan is survived by three sons —Messrs. W. S. and H. R. McGowan, of Wellington, and Mr. C. J. McGowan, of Martinborough—also by three daughters—Mrs. H. J. Gunn, of Ngaruru, Blenheim, and Misses Edith and Dorothy McGowan, of Wellington.

Writes a Sydney correspondent to .the News:—“All Sydney has mourned for Mr. Storey, the man wfao had no enemies. The tributes to him are a most striking example of the power of sincerity and sin/ile kindliness. When he arose to address audiences, he always began ‘Friends,’ and everybody became his friend in turn. When the Prince of Wales was here he couldn’t see enough of him, and would have him go in all his excursions, and he now cables of the loss of a valued personal friend. Their friendship was renewed in London this year. I suppose there were few whom the Prince met officially who were just such natural, simple men.”