PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 February 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. W. J. Coad, chief postmaster at Timaru, is a candidate for the vacancy on the Promotion Board. The Rev. J. Walker, vicar of St. Matthew’s * Church, Masterton, who recently resigned, expects to leave for England about M: y;

Sir Robert Nivison, on being raised to the peerage, takes the title of Baron Glendyne of Sanquhar (says a London cable). He is the senior partner in a firm of stockbrokers.

Mr A. K. Harris, railway traffic manager at Wanganui, has been promoted to the charge of the Auckland district. Mr J. B Mitcheil, of Ohakune, succeeds Mr Harris.

Mr. A. E. Ford > of Adelaide, has been appointed assistant general manager of the Auckland tramways, says a Press Association message. He will commence his new duties in April.

Mr. D. C. Bates, Dominion meteorologist, is at present on a visit to New Plymouth in connection with the acquisition of a site where meteorological records can be taken.

A vote of sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr. Walter Bewley was passed by yesterday’s meeting of the Taranaki County Council. Mr. Bewley was chairman of the council from i 893 to 1896.

Lieut. L. W. Andrew, V.C., of New Plymouth, and Lieut. R. C. C. Steele were passengers by the mail train yesterday morning for Plimmerton, where they take the practical portion of their captaincy examination. A Sydney cable says Bishop Locke, head of the Methodist Episcopal Church of America in the Phillipines, has arrived en route to New Zealand to participate in the centenary celebration of Methodism there.

Mr. F. M. B. Fisher, in conjunction with Captain G. F. Jeanes, is editing “Imperial Commerce and Affairs,” a London journal for business men, which in December last completed the first two years of its existence.

Tragically sudden was the death of Mr. D. R. Perry, a well-known farmer of Turakina, on Friday, at the age of 55. Apparently all right, he went about his morning's work and later hie body was found in a field. He had evidently let the cows out and dropped dead. An inquest was held by the coroner and a verdict of death from heart disease was returned. The deceased leaves a widow, two sons and three daughters, to whom much sympathy will be extended.

An interesting feature in connection with the golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell, at Toko, on the 3rd inst., was the fact that there has never been a death in the family, which consists of father and mother and nine children. Although they had experienced all the hardships and privations incidental to pioneering bush country, yet on the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage every member of the family was alive and well. The names of the children are: Mr. -lames Maxwell, metaiurgist. Western Australia; Mr. D. S. Maxwell, farmer. Ngaere; Mrs. F. A. Warner, Masterton; Mr. Kerr Maxwell, farmer, Horotiu, Waikato;’ Mrs. Herbert Florance Cameron, Moyrinsville; Mrs. A. H. Richmond, Brooklands, Midhirst; Mrs. Bert Aircy Pupuke. Uhangaroa; Mr. Alan .Maxwell, Railway Department, Wellington; and Mrs. I. P. MeDavitt. Castlecliff, Wanganui; and there are thirty-one grandchildren.

Mr. and Mrs. Andus Raynes, residents of New Plymouth some years ago, celebrated their golden wedding at Mon Desir Hotel, Takapuna, on Thursday last, when over 70 relatives and friends were present as guests. The wedding took place at the Manse, Christchurch, on February 2, 1872, the Rev. Charles Fraser officiating. Mr. Raynes arrived in Auckland by the ship African, in 1862, and engaged in business at Thames as an importer and fruiterer. He afterwards lived on Kawau Island, when the island was owned by the late Sir George Grey, .and on the occasion of the visit of the Duke of Edinburgh and Sir Charles Beresford, in H.M.S. Galatea, \tas guest of the Royal visitor. Mr. Raynes was one of the first licensees in Dargaville, and afterwards had the Imperial and Terminus at New Plymouth, and other licensed houses. At the time of King George’s visit to New Zealand, Mr. Raynes was the proprietor of Martin's stables at Parnell, and. securing the 'contract for the Royal carriages, drove His Majesty to H.M.S. Ophir at the wharves. He built the present Mon Desir' Hotel and the first tea kiosk at Takapuna. Mrs. Raynes, who was a daughter of the late Mr. John Stillwell, of the Royal Engineers, was born at the military barracks on the site now occupied by Albert Park.