PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 September 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A Sydney cable says Mr. Alfred Hill has been appointed to succeed M. Skalski as conductor of the New South Wales orchestra.

Professor Marsden, Professor of Physics at Victoria College, has been appointed Assistant-Director of Education.—Press Association.

Messrs. J. Quin, chairman of directors of the Taranaki Farmers’ Meat Co., and J. S. Connett, one of the directors, left for Wellington by the mail train yesterday morning on business connected with the meat industry. Mr. A. Bennett, a probationary inspector of the Labor Department, has been transferred from Palmerston North to New Plymouth to fill the vacancy caused by the transfer of Mr. S. !E. McGregor to Christchurch. Mr. Bennett has taken up his duties in the New Plymouth office.

The death took place at New Plymouth last night of Mrs. Drew, widow of the late Rev. William Drew, in her 83rd year. With her husband the late Mrs. Drew came out to New Zealand from England twenty-nine years ago, and her lengthy residence in New Plymouth, where Mr. Drew was in charge of the Baptist Church, gave her a wide circle of friends. There are two sons—Mr. D. Drew (South Africa) and Mr. E. A. Drew (Dunedin) —and two daughters —Miss Drew (New Plymouth) and Mrs. Arthur Hofoy (New Plymouth).

An investiture was held at Government House, Wellington, on Saturday evening, when His Excellency the Gov-ernor-General knighted and invested the Hon. Sir Maui Pomare, C.M.G., as a Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, and handed Letters Patent of Knighthood to the Hon. Sir Walter Carncross and Sir James 11. B. Coates. Miss E. M. MeAJlum, New Plymouth, was invested with the Royal Red Cross (second-

The diamond wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Catanach was celebrated on Thursday last at Waverley. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Catanach took place on September 14, 1862, at All Saints Church, Elton, Lancs. There are 3 children, 18 grand-children, and 11 great grand-children of the marriage. Mr. Catanach, who was born in Aberdeen, has resided for 43 years in Wayerley, and enjoys the best of health in spite of his years, but Mrs. Catanach is not at present able to leave her room.

The death of Mr. Charles Clarke at Epsom (Auckland), aged S 4 years, removes one of the rapidly thinning remnant of the 18th Royal Irish Regiment which served during the Maori War. Each year at the annual gathering at the foot of Queen Victoria’s statue in Albert Park, the circle of veterans of the 18th Royal Irish is reduced, and at the next reunion several will be mustered out, as the youngest of the remnant? must be approaching four score years of age.