PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 April 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. J. Milne Adams has been appointed Registrar of Electors and Re turning Officer for the Taranaki electoral district.

Mr. T. C. Brash, secretary of the National Dairy Association, will reach New Plymouth to-night. The Prime Minister spends Anzac Day in his own electorate. He leaves Wellington on Monday and expects to return on the Wednesday or Thursday following. . A London cable states that Mr. Winston Churchill, while riding at Eaton Hall, Chester, had a bad fall and was much shaken. It is hoped he will recover in a few days.

A Dunedin message reports the death of Mr. T. W. Whitson, aged 76. He was for many years secretary to the Union Steamship Company.

Mr. D. Morrison, New Plymouth manager of the Union Steamship Company, goes on leave next week. Mr. A. K. Thompson, of the Auckland staff, has come to New Plymouth to act as relieving officer.

Mr. A. Bruntell, who has been appointed Minister for Education ard Industry in the new Ministry of New South Wales, was formally an officer of the Salvation Army in New Zealand and Australia.

Mr. James Boddie, chairman of directors of the Farmers’ Union Trading Company, leaves for England via America by the Niagara on Tuesday next. A correspondent states that Mrs. McLaren, whose engagement to Colonel B. C. Frey berg, V.C., formerly of Wellington, was recently announced, has a most delightfully original house in Smith Square, London, where the decorations i are mostly Italian. The steel floor in the dining-room is original, but very slippery.

Mr. E. Ellerm, of New Plymouth, has been appointed to the position of librarian and curator at the Carnegie Institute, New Plymouth. The appointment is for six months, to be made permanent on certain conditions, at the expiry of that time. Mr. Ellenn is a New Plymouth boy, who, besides taking a deep interest in literature, has had practical knowledge of taxidermy. He served in the war, and was a member of the New Plymouth Repatriation Committee, resigning to go into business in Hamilton.

The young Earl De La Warr, who recently took his seat in the House of Lords, is the youngest peer in the House. He was 21 last June. He succeeded to the title when he was 15, leaving Eton the next year to become an able seaman in a mine-sweeper. In his seaman’s uniform he once occupied a seat on the steps of the throne in the House of Lords. He was not yet of age when, in December, 1920, he married Miss Diana Leigh, who has since given him a son. Lord De La Warr is an ardent supporter of the Labor Party. He is a vegetarian, and contrived, during his service in the navy, to avoid all meat. The Hon. J. Drysdale Brown, brother of Mr. J. Vigor Brown, of Napier, passed away on the sth inst., at South Yarra, Melbourne. Deceased was chairman of committee in the Legislat/Vte Council. He was Attorney-General and Solicitor-General in the Murray Ministry from January, 1909, till May, 1912, and in the first Watt Ministry from May, 1912, till December, 1943, and he was Minister of Mines, Forests and Public Health in the second Watt Ministry from December, 1913, till June, 1914, till November, 1915. In his earlier life the deceased was manager for several branches of the Colonial Bank of Australasia. Upon retirement he went to England and studied for the bar, passing successfully, and for a short time practised his profession in Victoria. Upon entering political life he retired from practice.