PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 22 August 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL

Miss liosina Buckman and Mr. H. D’Oisoly have left New Zealand en route for Sydney. At a meeting of the directors of the Eltham Dairy Company on Saturday afternoon Mr. H. D. Forsyth was reelected chairman for the ensuing year. Dr. T. H. A. Valintine, DirectorGeneral of Health, who is away for a change of air and rest, is reported to be making satisfactory progress. At last night’s meeting of the New Plymouth Borough Council, the Mayor (Mr. F. E. Wilson) welcomed the newlyelected councillor, Mr. F. J. Hill, to the council table. Cr. Hill suitably responded. He was appointed the council’s representative on the Fire Board, vice Mr. W. Rumball. The death of Mrs. B. Bulmer, senr., took place in New Plymouth last week. Mr. and Mrs. Bulmer were amongst the oldest settlers in the Mangatoki district, and left there a few years ago to live in Eltham, subsequently retiring to New Plymouth a little over a year ago. The funeral of the late Mr. R. Turnbull took place at the Huirangi cemetery on Saturday afternoon. The service was conducted by the Ven. Archdeacon Evans, and the large and representative attendance was an evidence of the high esteem and regard in which deceased had been held throughout the district. Miss P. M. Clark, a member of the teaching staff of the New Plymouth Girls’ High School, has resigned her position. Miss Clark, who will leave at the end of the year, proposes to visit Europe. In reporting this to the board last night, the-principal stated that Miss Clark’s departure would be much regretted. The board decided to accent the resignation with regret, members expressing their application of Miss Clark’s work, both inside and outside the school.

Mr. S. :E. McGregor, who leaves New Plymouth this morning on transfer to the Labor Department, Christchurch, was the guest of the Old Boys’ Football Club at a farewell tea last night, and was presented with a gold medal in the shape of a miniature football. Mr. McGregor hjts played continuously for the club’s senior team throughout the season and has proved a most versatile footballer, playing in the backs and among the forwards with an equal degree of- excellence. A cablegram, dated. August 19, has been received by the New Zealand Alliance from Mr. Johnson (Pussyfoot), on board the Ormuz. It states that the Hon. John G. Woolley died at Grenada, Spain, on Sunday. Mr. Woolley had an international reputation as a Prohibition orator and worker and. was on a world tour. Only last year there was a national recognition of his services to Prohibition in the United States. Mrs, Woolley died on January 15 last year so her husband has not long survived her.

At the White Hart Hotel yesterday morning Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Horne were presented with a gold-mounted clock on the anniversary of their twenty-first wedding day. The principal present was made on behalf of the staff of the White Hart Hotel, who expressed their appreciation of the manner in which they had been treated during the term of employment under Mr. and Mrs. Horne. Numerous presents were given by friends of the popular host and hostess and cheers for the recipients were given after Mr. Home had suitably responded. *

Many will learn with deep regret of the death of Mr. Francis McCarthy, of Manaia, on Saturday. The late Mr. McCarthy was 62 years of age. He came to the district with his parents in 18S0, and opened in Manaia a year later a boot* and shoe business, which he carried on till the time of his death. The late Mr. McCarthy was of a retiring disposition, and abstained from taking any part in public affairs, but his good qualities gained him many friends, and he was very popular with all. No one in Manaia has had a longer connection with the ‘business life of the town. Mr. Bernard McCarthy, of Messrs. Welsh, Beechey, and McCarthy, is a, brother of deceased, and other brothers are Messrs. C. J. McCarthy and W. M. McCarthy, of Wanganui, and F. C. McCarthy, of Manaia.—Star.

A London message reports the death of Dame Genevieve Ward, the actress. Dame Ward, who was born in New York in 1837, and married to the Count de Guerbel in Warsaw in 1855, began her theatrical career as an opera singer at La Scala, Milan, in 1856. After a distinguished career in opera she injured her voice by over exertion anti became a teacher of singing in New York. Later she studied dramatic art and appeared as Lady Macbeth in Manchester in 1873. Tn 1879 she produced the play “Forget-me-not” at the Lyceum and toured the English-speaking world, acting the game play 2000 times. She subsequently played with Sir Henry Irving and later with Sir Frank Benson. She played the part of the Duchess of Hauteville in “The Aristocrat” at St. James’ Theatre in \917 when eighty years of age.