PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. K. de G. Macvitty, who is to act as American Consul at Auckland, arrived there by the Niagara yesterday. — Press Assn.

Misses Myra Cresswell (Hastings) and F. E. Coombes (Fitzroy) have been placed on the list of waiting probationers for the New Plymouth Public Hospital.

The Rev. J. A. Julius, vicar of St. Mary’s, Timaru, has been appointed Archdeacon of Timaru and Westland, in the place of Archdeacon J. A. Jacob, who has resigned.

Messrs. O. Hawken and E. Dixon, M.P.’s for Egmont and Patea respectively, who have been spending the weekend in Taranaki, left for Wellington yesterday. A wireless from the s.s. Marama records the death of Mr. Henry Stead, the editor of Stead’s Review. He was returning from a health trip to America and the Press Congress. The body was buried at Papeete. Mrs. Stead had arrived in tVellington to meet her husband.

Miss Barr, principal of lona College, and formerly head of the New Plymouth Girls’ High School, will leave Auckland by the Niagara, en route for England for the purpose of selecting teachers for the college. Miss Barr expects to be back in Hastings in time for the re-opening of the college in February. The. Governor-General, Lord Jellicoe, and Lady Jellicoe have taken Mr. H Elworthy’s house at Pareora, near Timaru, for several months. Her Excellency left for Timaru on Wednesday, and both Their Excellencies and family will spend the Christmas holidays there, His Excellency returning to Wellington in time for the resumption of Parliament.

The silver wedding of Mr. and Mrs. £. Hicks, of Hawera, was celebrated last Friday evening, when a big gathering was held, visitors being present from New Plymouth to Waverley. The evening was spent in song, story and dance, a toast also being discussed, and a memorable evening generally being spent. Mr. Arthur Morton, president of the National Dairy Association, left for Wellington by the mail train yesterday to attend a conference between the Producers’ Committee, of which he is a member, and the Board of Agriculture. Mr. W- B. Grant, president of the Taranaki Agricultural Society, who represents Taranaki on the Board of Agriculture, was also a passenger by the mail train.

The «resignations of the following members of the New Plymouth Hospital staff were received at yesterday’s meeting of the Taranaki Hospital Board: Sister N. Hoskdng, who is taking up private hospital work in Auckland; Sister N. Tysol, who is relinquishing the position of night sister owing to ill-health, and Nurse A. D. Grooby, who wrote stating she was giving up nursing for a time. Other resignations were received from Nurse L. M. O’Connor and Nurse (probationer) M. C. Carroll. Reporting to the monthly meeting of the Taranaki Hospital Board yesterday, the medical superintendent (Dr. E. A. Walker) stated that in the examination for the hospital certificate Nurses Collins, Smith, Smart,. Merron, and Evans had passed. Nurses Warwick, Grant and Condon passed in the preliminary examination in anatomy and physiology. The report of the Matron (Miss P. A. Campbell) intimated that at the recent invalid cookery examination held in November first-class passes were secured by Nurses Warnock, Winfield, Dew, Graham and Mackay. A second-class pass was secured by Nurse Condon.

Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Chivers, formerly of Okaiawa and now of Auckland, have just returned from a trip abroad. Leaving New Zealand last April,, they travelled through America and Canada to England, and also visited France, returning through Canada and America. During the whole of their travels they had splendid weather, and have returned in the best of health, and much impressed by the sights seen in the various countries they visited. When Mr. Chivers was in England business men whom he had spoken to expressed the opinion that as soon as the Irish question was definitely settled business would take an immediate turn for the better.—-Star,