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Taranaki Daily News, 4 September 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Dr. Rex Brewster has been appointed medical officer to the New Plymouth prison. Mr. T. M. Wilford, M.P., is at present an inmate of a private hospital in Wellington. Mr. J. Horn, M.P. for Wakatipu, accompanied by Mrs. Horn, spent the week-end at New Plymouth. Messrs. E. Dixon, O. Hawken, R. Masters and S. G. Smith, M.P.’s, were passengers from Wellington by the mail train on Saturday. A Sydney message says that Assembly circles believe that .Sir George Fuller will become Agent-General at the end of the present session in November and will probably be succeeded by Mr. Oakes. A Greymouth message reports the death of Mr. Robert Russell, aged 63. He was licensee of the Park Hotel, formerly Mayor of Brunner, ex-chair-man of the Greymouth Harbor Board, and a prominent Druid. He was a native of Dumbarton and landed in Auckland 40 years ago. Mr. J. S. Hope, colonist of over 60 years’ standing, and a well-known goldfields’ pioneer, died at Auckland last week, aged 77. A native of Glasgow, he emigrated to Australia as a youth, and then came to New Zealand, arriving at Dunedin m time to be among the pioneers of the Gabriel’s Gully mining rush in 1861. From there he went to Hawke’s Bay, and in Napier was proprietor of a line of mail coaches, being the first peison to drive a four-horse coach to the Waipawa district. The death is. reported at Christchurch of Archdeacon Stocker, aged 82, formerly of Invercargill. Archdeacon Stocker has been a resident of New Zealand since 1874, when he became vicar of Lincoln, Canterbury. In 1879 he went to Akaroa, remaining there until 1882, when he was appointed vicar of St. John’s, at Invercargill. He was made an Archdeacon in 1885. 'He was father of the late Mr. Harry Stocker, of New Plymouth. Captain John Sullivan, one of the oldest skippers in the service of the Devonport Ferry Company, died at Auckland last week, in his 81st year. Paptain Sullivan, who was engaged in the coastal trade for several years before joining the Ferry Company’s staff, obtained his master’s ticket when only about 18 years of age. On one occasion he was eight days in a westeily gale off the Manukau Bar, his vessel having lost its rudder. In spite of that loss Captain Sullivan finally brought his boat safely to port. The death of Mr. G. B. Smith, late of Dunedin, took place at Auckland last week. The passing of Mr. Smith, who was 81 years of age, removes one of those interesting personalities which have always marked th® history of New Zealand’s industrial progress. He was manager for Messrs. Kempthorne and Prosser in Dunedin for 34 years, and supervised the erection of. their factory. He was the first man to manufacture sulphuric acid in Australasia, and also to grow lucerne in New Zealand, and had much to do with the original manufacture of the linseed meal cattle cake. Special values in household goods at ' C. C. Ward’s: 36in. pure longcloth, Is yard; colored roller towelling, 7d yard; all-wool Doctor flannel. Shetland and I light grey, 2/11 yard; 40in. apron checks (fast colors) 1/9 yard; a splendid range of cretonnes from 1/6 yard. I For Inbuenza, take — Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.