PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 November 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Dr. Newton. Anglican Bishop of Carpentaria, has been appointed. Bishop of New Guinea.

A Melbourne message gays it is officially announced that Sir Joseph Cook has been appointed High Commissioner and is sailing in December for London. A cable from Stockholm says the Nobel Literature Prize has been awarded to Anatole France, the distinguished French, novelist.

Sir Arthur Mayo-Robson, a prominent English surgeon, is to visit New Zealand shortly with his daughter. He is a very keen fisherman, and will spend some time at Taupo. He is expected to arrive by the lonic early in December.

A "Wanganui messagp reports the death of Mr. James Dempsey, aged 82, one of Wanganui’s oldest settlers. He was a Maori War veteran and formerly prominent on local bodies, the Caledonian Society, and Agricultural Association.

There recently passed away at Westport at the ripe age of 88 years, a former old resident of Patea in the person of Captain John Flowerday who for some sixteen years held the position of pilot and harbor master under the Patea Harbor Board. Mrs. Flowerday pre-, deceased her husband by some twelve months.

The death occurred at Auckland on Tuesday of the Rev. J. J. Mather, who for thirty-two years, from 1883 to 1915, when he retired owing to ill-health, was an active and valued member of the Methodist ministry. He was 66 years of age and is survived by a widow (who is a daughter of the late Mr. Thomas Bayly, of Waitara) and two daughters and two sons. A third son was killed in the war.

Mr. Wright, who has been appointed Commissioner of Police, is 60 years of age, and was born in Gloucester, England on April 8, 1861, coming to New Zealand when quite a young man. He entered the police force on August 2, 1882, as a constable in Invercargill. In November of the following year he was placed on clerical duty in the inspector’s office, Invercargill, and in 1891 he was transferred to the Dunedin station to take up similar duty. He was promoted to the rank of a first-class constable in March, 1893, and appointed district clerk in the inspector’s office in Wellington. On January 1, 1898, he was promoted to the rank of sergeant, and in February, 1905, was transferred to the office of the Commissioner of Police. In January. 1906, Mr. Wright was appointed a sub-inspector and at the same time given the position of chief clerk of the department. He remained in the Commissioner’s office until March, 1911,. when lie was promoted to the rank of inspector and placed in charge of the Thames police district. In February, 1913, he was transferred to Hamilton, which became the district police headquarters. Mr. Wright remained in charge of the Hamilton district until November 1, 1915, when he was promoted to the rank of superintendent and placed in charge of the Dunedin district. In September, 1919, he was transferred to the position he at present occupies as superintendent of the Auckland district. Mr. Wright takes up his new duties on January 1 next.