PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 November 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The condition of Mr. F. P. Corkill, of New Plymouth, was last night reported to be unchanged. x At a meeting of the council of the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce the following were elected members of the Chamber: Messrs. F. W. Whyte, Jellyman and Forbes, and Herbert Nicholson.

A Melbourne message states that Sir Joseph Cook is expected/ to sail for London as High Commissioner before the end of the year. The Anglican Bishop of Auckland, the Right Rev. Dr. A. W. Averill, arrived at New Plymouth yesterday morning from Auckland. He will be in Taranaki for several weeks. President Harding celebrated his 56tli birthday on Wednesday. He received congratulatory cablegrams and messages from many Governments, including one from King George. A Wellington message reports the death of Mr. William Allan, head of the firm of Veitch and Allan, a well-known business firm. Mr. Allan was a prominent social welfare worker in the city, and was 67 years of age. At the annual meeting of the Taranaki A. and P. Society yesterday a vote of sympathy was passed with Mr. W. A. Morton, a member who had recently sustained a bereavement through the loss of his brother, Mr.nJ. Morton. Miss M. Blackie Johnstone, Otago University, has been successful in passing the final terms of her B.A. degree. Miss Johnstone is an old pupil of the New Plymouth Girls’ High School. Mr. Alfred H. Grant, teller at the New Plymouth branch of the Bank of New South Wales, has received notice of transfer to Palmerston North, where he takes up the duties of accountant. He leaves New Plymouth on Monday.

A pioneer of the King Country, Mr. Fred Mace, died last week at Otorqhanga, aged 76 years (says the Auckland Star). Deceased was a surveyor, and while working at his profession discovered the WaitOmo Caves. On another occasion he found the bones of two moas. Deceased was born m London, and followed a seafaring life beino- first master of a clipper to China. He came to New Zealand many years ago, and with Mr. Cousins was engaged on the whole of the trig -surveys in .he King Country. In the early days, soon after the Maori war, Mr. Maee did a .rood deal of opening up surveys. Dur?n» the mining boom in 1868 and also the last big one, he was engaged on survey work for claims. He is survmed by his brothers, Mr. Alfred Mace, of Pahiatua, and Mr. Edward Mace, of Wellington.