PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 August 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. E. W. Hodder, of Tututawa, has been appointed a Justice of the Peace. Mr. W. T. Morpeth, of Wellington, has been appointed Commissioner of Crown Lands and Chief Surveyor for the Westland district.

At Saturday’s meeting of the executive of the northern division of the Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs a resolution of sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr. R. Turnbull, Sentry Hill, was passed. Mr. A. E. Washer paid a tribute to the worth and work of the deceased. Mr. J. S. Wilson, auctioneer at Cambridge for the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., has been appointed to succeed the lite Mr. Guy Cooper as auctioneer and agent for the company at Eltham, and will take up his new duties at Eltham at the end of this month.

The death took place on Saturday morning at the public hospital, Stratford, of Mr. Alexander Reith, farmer, of Toko, at the age of 66 years. The deceased, who had only been in the Dominion for about eighteen months, waq a native of Belhelvie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He is survived by a widow, three sons, and one daughter. Messrs. W. T. Jennings, O. J. Hawken and E. Dixon, M.P.’s, returned to Taranaki for the week-end by Saturday night’s mail train. Mr. K. Williams (M.P. for Bay of Plenty) accompanied Mr. Hawkeh to Eltham, whilst Mr. V. H. Reed (MJ?, for Bay of Islands) spent the week-end in Stratford. Messrs. S. G. Smith and R. Masters, M.P.’s, remained in Wellington to see the Tara-naki-Wellington representative football match.

Mr. Tame Horomona ("Tom Solomon”) and his aunt, Mrs. Ngamare Heta, of the Chatham Islands, who attended the Maori hui at Tuahiwi, are the sole surviving members of the Moriori race, the original inhabitants of New Zealand. Mr. Horomona stated to a Christchurch reporter that, as far as he is aware, he and his aunt are the only full-blooded Morioris living. His children and those of his aunt are halfcastes. He is very similar in appearance to a full-blooded Maori.

The death took place at Marton yesterday morning of Mr. W. C. Kensington, 1.5.0., formerly under-secretary for lands (says a Press Association telegram). He is survived by two daughters and. three sons. The late Mr. Kensingfton was born at Criocieth, North Wales, and was 77 years of age. He was educated in England and as a young man came out to New Zealand, entering the Government service in 1864. Prior to that he was in the militia and served in the Maori war, being a volunteer in the East Coast campaign of 1863 and I86(k