PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 March 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Canon Percival Stacey Waddy has been appointed Anglican archdeacon of Palestine (says a cable from London). Mr. Marshal J. Mays, American ViceConsul for New Zealand, expects to vi .it New Plymouth at the end of the present month. The Hon. G. M. Thomson, M.L.C., is expected in New Plymouth on Monday morning from Hawera. He will probably stay till Tuesday with Dr. G. H. Thomson, thence proceeding to Stratford. Mr. W. A. G. Penlington, 8.A., lately director of vocational training, has been appointed first assistant and acting director of the Hastings Technical High School. Mr. Douglas, Mayor of Dunedin, will contest the Dunedin West seat with the Hon. W. Downie Stewart, standing in the interests of the new party. —Press Assn. General Sir Edward Chaytor, K.C. M.G., Commandant of the New Zealand Forces, arrived in New Plymouth by the mail train laat night, accompanied by Lady Chaytor. The visit is of a private nature, and they leave for Wanganui on Monday morning. ■Dr. E. A. Walker, superintendent of the New Plymouth ‘public hospital, returned -to New Plymouth by last night's

express, after being absent on a holiday trip to Picton, and also attending the conference of the British Medical Association (Dominion branch) at Wellington. The Bishop of Melanesia hae arrived in Wellington after a tqUr of the South Island, from Invercargill to Nelson, where he has preached and delivered addresses at public meetings on his work in the South Sea Islands. Arrangements have been made for a similar tour through the North Island, in cludirig Taranaki. • Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Bennett are to be tendered a farewell social and dance by the people of Eltham, where Mr. Bennett has been stationmastr for a great number of years. Mr. Bennett is retiring shortly on superannuation. He has always been found to be a most capable and obliging officer and a good citizen, taking a keen interest in public affairs as far as his duties would permit. The Wairarapa Daily News says: “It is understood that the soldier settlers of the Wairarapa have a petition in circulation which is being largely signed, praying that Brigadier-General H. E. Hart, C. 8., C.M.G., D. 5.0., will consent to come forward as a candidate for the Wairarapa seat in the interests of the Liberal and Moderate Labor Party. The petitioners state that they realise the good work done by General Hart at the front, and think that he ia the best man to represent both farmers and the small men.”

There are few members of the printing craft who will not hear with regret of the death of Mr. John McDougall, which took place at the Lower Hutt on Wednesday after a long illness. Mr. McDougall was in his fiftieth year, and was a son of Mr. J. W. McDougall, editor of the Napier Telegraph for the last forty years, and brother of Mr. E. McDougall, chief engineer at the Farmers’ Meat Works, New Plymouth. He acted as secretary and arbitration advocate for the Typographical Association for about seven years. He left Napier twenty years ago and joined the staff of the Government Printing Office, for some years past occupying the position of reader. During his term as borough councillor in the suburban town he met with an accident, when a motor ran over him, breaking his leg, an illness he never properly recovered from. He ; leaves a widow and family, the youngbest child being seven years of age. j