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Taranaki Daily News, 2 November 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A Timaru message announces the death of Mr. Jeremiah Matthew Twoomey, of Temuka. Dr. Leatham was a passenger for Auckland last night, Mr. M. Fraser left by the Rarawa last night to spend a holiday in Auckland and Rotorua. A memorial service to Bishop Neville was conducted at Auckland yesterday by Bishop Averill, synchronising with the funeral. Sir Basil Thomson has resigned the position of Director of Intelligence at Scotland Yard owing to difficulties with Sir William Horwood, Chief Commissioner. At a meeting of the Patea Farmers’ Co-op. Freezing Company, held subsequent to the adjourned annual meeting last week, Mr. C. Dickie was elected chairman in place of Mr. C. Hawken, who did not seek re-election.

A deputation from the Egmont County Council, consisting of Messrs. S. Campbell (chairman), W. C. Green, and R. Ferguson, left Hawera for Wellington by the mail train yesterday morning to wait on the Prime Minister and the Minister of Public Works in regard to the speedy completion of the Te Roti-Opunake railway. The marriage took place at Sydney yesterday of Miss Wade, youngest daughter of Mr. Robert Wade, of New Plymouth, and a sister of Dr. Wade, to Mr. R. H. Tod, of Otane, Hawke’s Bay. Mr. and Mrs. Tod will leave Sydney on November 10 on their return to New Zealand, and will visit New Plymouth en route to their home in Hawke’s Bay.

The following further retirements in the Post and r Pislegraph service are announced: Mr. L. W. Bourke, superintendent of the Wellington telegraph office; Mr. G. Redmond, Wellington G.P.O. staff; Mr. F. J. Carr, Wellington telegraph office; Mr. W 7 . R. Thompson, postmaster Courtenay Place; Mr. W. N. Tregonning, postmaster, Wellington South; Mr. J. T. Wylie, chief postmaster, Nelson; Mr. C. A. Wyatt, Wellington telegraph office; Mr. G. Levy, relieving officer, Wellington; Mr. R. W. Percy, postmaster, Levin.—Press Association.

The Bishop of Auckland (Right Rev. A. W. Averill, D.D.) hopes to reach New Plymouth on Friday for his periodical visitation of the Archdeaconry of Taranaki. He has been asked to open the St? Mary’s Rose Show and Guild Sale of Work on Friday afternoon, and the next day will proceed on an extended tour in the country districts. He hopes to be present at ehurch choirs’ festival at St. Mary’s on November 10, and e fortnight later, on the 23rd and 24th, will preside at the Archdeaconry Board Conference. His visit to New Plymouth towards the end of November will include, besides the usual confirmations. the dedicating of the brass roll of honor in St. Mary’s, end of a flag, presented to the church by Major Urquhart, M.C., which accompanied the Taranaki Company of the 2nd Battalion, Wellington Infantry Regiment, through France from the middle of 1016 to the demobilisation in Germany nearly three years later. The Auckland candidate for the Rhodes Scholarship for 1922, M. P. O. Veale, is a son of Mr. O. J. Veale, No. 1 Beresford Street (states the New Zealand Herald). Mr. Veale, who is 22 years of age, is at present a master at the Auckland Grammar School. He has had a very successful scholastic career, and is also a prominent rifle shot, hockey player and swimmer. He won the first junior National Scholarship in the Auckland district in 1911, and the following year he went to the Auckland Grammar School, matriculating in 1914. He entered the university in 1916 on a junior university scholarship, being fourth in that for New Zealand. During his university career Mr. Veale has won several scholarships and prices, and graduated B.Sc. in 1919. He joined the staff of the Grammar School in 1918 as junior science master. For the last two. years he has been taking the research and honors course in chemistry. In the recreative and social life of the university, Mr. Veale has taken a leading part, and has held office in most of the college clubs and societies. He is also a leading member of the Akarana and the Auckland City Defence Rifle Clubs and of the Waitemata Swimming Club.