PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 May 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. E. F. Hemingway, proprietor of the Patea Press and a member of the Wanganui Education Board, has been spending the week-end in New Plymouth.

His Honor Mr. Justice Reed arrived in New Plymouth from Wellington on Saturday night and will preside over the sessions of the Supreme Court, opening to-morrow. His Honor is accompanied by his associate (Mr. A. Hamilton).

Mr. W. Morant Bayly has been appointed secretary of the Poverty Bay A. and P. Association. Prior to taking up his residence in Gisborne, Mr. Bayly was a member of the executive of the Stratford A. and P. Association, and has been an exhibitor in the Stratford district for 30 years.

The death occurred yesterday of Mr. George C. King at his residence on the Ihaia Road, Opunake, at the age of 68 years. The late Mr. King was a wellknown settler in the district, where he had resided for many years. He is survived by his widow and a grown-up family.

Mr. W. A. G. Skinner has been appointed Government Printer in succession to Mr. Marcus Marks, who retires from the service at the end of the month. The new head of the Government Printing Office was born at New Plymouth in 1865, but early went to Wellington. On leaving school he was engaged as a reader boy in the Government Printing Office, commencing there in 1879.

Frontiersmen of the North Taranaki Legion foregathered at the Kawaroa Park 'bungalow. New Plymouth, on Friday evening to bid farewell to Lieut. G. Goldsworthy, who leaves to-morrow evening to” take jip his residence in Gippsland, Australia. Archdeacon F. G. Evans and Lieut.-Colonel C. H. Weston voiced the legion’s regret at Lieut. Goldsworthy’s departure, and the latter presented the departing guest with a pocket wallet and a substantial cheque as a slight indication of the esteem and regard in which he was held. Lieut. Goldsworthy, in response, traced the rise of the Legion of Frontiersmen in North Taranaki. In returning thanks for the presentation made to him, the speaker assured comrades that, wherever he might go, he could never forget the kindness they had extended to him.