PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 February 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Archdeacon Evans and H. K. Cattley accompany the Battalion Band to Wellington to-morrow.

It is reported that Mr. E. F. Shadbolt, farmer, of Matainata, is opposing the sitting member (Sir William Herries), for the Tauranga electorate in the interests of the new party. Mr. D. Williams, postmaster at Toko, is at present in New Plymouth on holiday leave. Mr. Rowe> of the New Plymouth office, is acting at Toko.

Mr. P. Scott Leggatt, of Darlingtori, England, who arrived in New Plymouth by motor-car from Auckland on nesday afternoon, left again about noon yesterday for .Wellington.

Mr. J. J. Walklate, town clerk of Auckland, has resigned on account of ill-health. Mr. J. S. Brigham, city treasurer, has been appointed to. the vacancy.—Press Assn.

Ort the 28th of this month the following will sit for examinations >at Hawera: Lieut. A. Smith, for promotion from lieutenant to captain; Sergeants T. A. W. Jarvie and j. G. Ritchie, for first appointment to commission-, and C. L. Ferens, F. G. Coleman, and J. T. Lineham, for promotion from secondlieutenant to lieutenant.

Among the eminent vocalists to visit New Zealand this year will be Miss Rosina Buckman, the New Zealand soprano, who within the last seven or eight years, has risen to be acknowledged as England’s greatest operatic soprano. Miss Buckman, who will be accompanied by her husband, Mr. Maurice D’Oiseley, a fine tenor, will coinmence a concert tour of Australasia in Wellington during the first week of June.

Mr. Thurston, of Vancouver, 8.C., accompanied by his wife and daughter, arrived in New Plymouth by motor-car from Auckland on Wednesday afternoon and went on to Wellington yesterday. They are spending about a fortnight in the North Island. They werd*delighted with the appearance of the country they passed through en route from Auckland, especially with the fine farming country in the Waikato and the beautiful scenery between Te Kuiti and New Plymouth.

A tribute to Mrs. Samuel Leigh, wife of the first Methodist Minister in New Zealand, was paid by the Rev. A. C. La wry, in an address at Grey mouth last week. Mrs. Leigh, said Mr. Lawry, dealt a shrewd and effective blow’ at infanticide among the Maoris of the Nbrth a hundred years ago. She promised a set of English baby clothing for every Maori girl that was brought to her and proved to be a fortnignt old at the time. None could be found in that district, (but the prize induced mothers to spare their little girls, and after cherishing them for fourteen days, even Maori women of that brutal time learned te love and guard their daughters.