PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 October 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London cablegram says the late Mr George R. Sims, the author, left £7lll.

■A New York cablegram states that Mr McCormick, vice-president of the Southern Pacific 'Railway, was elected permanent chairman. Mr Robert MacLaren, the late acting director of the Auckland Technical College, has been appointed director to the Napier Technical College, in place of Mr J. E. Newton,, who has been appointed director of the technical college at Wanganui.

■Rev. H. B. Gray, who has been absent on leave for the past three months, will resume his ministry in Hawera on November 5. Rev. James Ings, who has been supplying Mr Gray’s pulpit during his absence, will leave for Dannevirke, Hawke’s Bay, early next week.

Miss Elmira Mullon (an old girl of the New Plymouth High School) gained a second class in English language and literature at the Victoria University term examination. Mr S. S. Alleman (Auckland University College), who is a High School old boy, gained the following term examination passes: Class 2, Practical Mathematics; Class 3, Structural Mechanics.

Monsignor Power, of Hawera, who is away on holiday in Australia, was present* at a great gathering of over 400,000 people in Sydney who welcomed His Grace Coadjutor Archbishop Sheehan, D.D., D.P.'H., M.A., on his arrival from Ireland. At the reception jn St. Mary’s Cathedral His Excellency Archbishop Cattaneo, Papal Delegate, was supported on the Throne by Monsignor Power. The proceedings were very interesting throughout, and the welcome was most enthusiastic. In the House on Saturday afternoon the Premier made a felicitous speech in connection with the contemplated voluntary retirement from the House of a number of members, some of whom he indicated might not entirely disappear from politics. Those retiring are Dr. A. K. Newman (Wellington East) and Messrs E. Newman (Manawatu), F. Mander (Marsden), J. Craigie (Timaru), and *H. M. Campbell (Hawke’s Bay).—Press Association.