PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The Rev. W. A. Allen, formerly vicar of St. George’s Patea, is standing for the Thames seat at the next election, in the Liberal-Labour interests.

The Right Rev. the Bishop of Wellington (Dr. Sprott). is at present visiting the Taranaki district. The bishop preached at Manaia on Sunday.

Mr. P. J. H. White was elected chairman of the newly constituted Board of Managers for the New Plymouth Technical College at the first meeting of the board last night. Mr. J. Pickard lias been appointed railway station-master' at New Plymouth in succession to Mr. O’Shea, who goes to Palmerston North. Mr. Pickard was a short time ago chief clerk of the goodfched at New Plymouth. He takes up his new duties at the beginning of next month. The death at Cheltenham (England) on Friday of Mr. Edward Pearce, in his 90th year, removes one of the .Hinders of commerce in Wellington.

l:e l late Ml*. Pearce, or Colonel Pearce, as he was usually called, came to New Zealand in 1861, and very quickly established himself as one of the leading merchants in what was then a very restricted field of enterprise. He remained in business on his own account for a quarter of a centurv. and then, in 1889, he joined forces with Levin and Co., his co-directors- being Mr. W. H. Levin and Me. John Duncan. When Mr. Levin died in 1i893, Mr. Pearce be. came the senior partner in what was, and still is, a very flourishing firm.