PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 May 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London cable records the death of Dr. Kennion, ex-Bishop of Adelaide. Messrs. Richard Dingle and T. C. List have been appointed members of the Egmont National Park Board. The following appointments of Taranaki men are gazetted in the New Zealand infamtry:—Second lieutenants;! David Edgaf McChesney Thomson (4th Battalion) and Maurice Osborne (4th Battalion). Mr. P. Woulfe, who has been on the staff of the Public Works Department for many years, has returned to Taranaki after an absence of' sixteen years. Prior to leaving a few days ago, Mr. Woulfe was the recipient of tokens of esteem and goodwill from the staffs of the Public Works at Okahukura and district, and was accorded hearty send-offs on the occasion of his transfer to take charge of the Kapuni section of the Te Roti-Opunake railway. Mrs. M. Medley, who died at Kelburn on Wednesday at the age of 86 years, was the widow of the late Captain Medley, R.N., and was one of the few links with the early days of New Zealand, for her father (the Rev. Richard Taylor) was not only an early missionary and had a store of Alaori history, but was one of the signatories to the Treaty of Waitangi. Mrs. Medley was a lady of many parts and retained her full faculties to the last, frequently entertaining her friends with a fund of reminiscences of early New Zealand. She was the first to carry out the task of travelling overland from Auckland to Wellington, before there were roads or railways, but just a track through the bush. Mrs. Medley lived in Wanganui and Wellington for many years. She leaves a daughter and a son (Mr, J. S. S. Medley, of New Plymouth).