PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 January 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Dr. Steven, of Stratford, who has been on a long trip to England, arrived in Wellington on Saturday. The Rev. Captain M. MulHneux, MC., arrived at Wellington by the Tahiti on .Saturday morning on a short visit to the Dominion. He will be remembered as captain of an England rugby team which toured New Zealand some years ago. Mr. E. A. Ford, traffic superintendent of the Adelaide tramways system, is to be offered the position of traffic manager to the Auckland city tramways. This decision was arrived at on Tuesday by the City Council at a special meeting to consider the matter. There were sixty applications for the position, which carries a salary of £7OO per annum.

The death of Mrs. Marchant, wife of Mr. George A. Marchant, of Cardiff, occurred on Saturday. The late Mrs. Marchant, who was 6*2. was the youngest daughter of the late Mr. William Foreman, of Alton,, and she was born at .Tataraimaka. For many years she has been in indifferent health, but her death came suddenly. The late Mrs. Marchant was well-known throughout Taranaki, her kindly disposition giving her a wide circle of’ friends. The funeral takes place to-day. At Saturday’s meeting of the Stratford County Council, a motion of sympathy with Mr. Marchant was passed. A London correspondent announces the appointment of 1 the Rev. C. F. Pierce, M.A., to the headmastership of Wanganui Collegiate School. Mr. Pieree has for the last six years been headmaster of the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Cranbrook, Kent, and lie received- his new appointment from a special commission in England. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, and was ordained at Canterbury Cathedral in 1906. In 1908 he was appointed chaplain and assistant master at Giggleswick School, under Mr. Vaughan, the new headmaster of Rugby. Before that he was for a short time assistant mastei at Haileybury. Mr. Pierce will not be going to New Zealand before next July. He is unmarried. At Saturday’s meeting of the Stratford County Council, the chairman (Mr. E. Walter) referred to the death of Mr. J. Thomson, who, he said, had sat at the council table as long as anyone. He was one of those rough and ready men, honest and straightforward, and one who could never be shifted if he thought he was in the right, and whilst he was in the council the ratepayer’s interests were always his first ideas at the tabic. Men of that sort, had been the means of putting New Zealand, forward the way she had progressed. A man hker- 1. i. should be honored when it was- possibk. On the motion of the eheirman a vote of sympathy with the relatives of Mr. Thomson was carried.