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Taranaki Daily News, 2 October 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A. London cablegram says Aiderman Edward Cecil Moore is Lord-Mayor elect. Sir Walter Buchanan, M.L.C., spent the week-end at Hawera. Constable Rimmer, of Auckland, has joined the New Plymouth police force. Mr. J. A. Bartholomew, S.M., has been appointed chairman of the War Pensions Committee, and left Dunedin for Wellington yesterday to attend the first sitting on Tuesday next. Mr. Stanley Shaw has received advice that his son, Dr. J. H. Shaw, had accepted a position as house surgeon at the ear, nose and throat section of the London Hospital. Mr. Walter Jones, of Tauranga, and who for many years was associated with the Mokau district, being a son of . the late Mr. Joshua Jones, is on a visit to New Plymouth. Mr. Jones is thinking of returning to this district. Messrs. S. G. Smith, O. Hawken and E. Dixon, M.P.’s, returned to Taranaki by the. mail train on Saturday. They leave again for Wellington .to-morrow morning. Mr. R. Masters, M.P., will come from Wellington by motor to-day, in order to address a meeting of producers at Egmont Village tonight on the dairy pool question.

New Zealanders will be interested to know that General Sir Charles Harington. at present the principal British military figure in the Turkish trouble, was the officer mainly responsible for working out the plans for the Battle of Messines. During the Great War General Harington was Chief of Staff to Lord Plumer, both in France and Italy. He was 50 years old on May 31, and before, taking over the command of the Army of the Black Sea two years ago was Deputy-Chief of the Imperial General Staff. During the South African War he served the staff as a railway officer. General Harington is a keen cricketer, and is a member of both the Marylebone and I. Zingari Clubs, and before going out to the Near East was president of the Army Sports Control Board, and devoted a great amount’of energy and enthusiasm to development of sport both in the regular army and the territorials.