PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 December 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL.

His Honor Mr. Justice Chapman and his associate (Mr. K. C. Aekina) leave by the mail train for Wellington this morning.

A London cable says Mr. Lloyd George, Mrs. Lloyd George and their daughter Megan, are leaving England in a week’s time for a lengthy holiday at Algeciras.

The condition of Mr. H. A. Stratford, headmaster of the Central School, New Plymouth, who is in a private hospital suffering from pneumonia, was reported last night to be very serious. Mr. A. W. Diprose, M.A., and Mr. C. G. Bottrill, M.A., both of the staff of the Boys’ High School have been placed in the A grade of the secondary school-teachers’ list

Amongst those on the platform at the New Plymouth Boys’ High School ceremony last night was His Honor Mr. Justice Chapman and Mr. K. C. Aekins (the judge’s associate).

Mr. F. J. Millman, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Millman, of New Plymouth, died on Wednesday after a short illness. The deceased, who was 27 years of age, served for several years during the war, being attached to the Red Cross division, and serving on board the hospital ship Marama. He was a married man and leaves a wife and little daughter.

As showing the esteem in which they hold their teacher, the pupils of Standard VI. at the Central School, at the conclusion of the year’s work, made presentations to Mr. R. L. Mcllroy. The girls presented; him with a letter case, in which was enclosed a note wishing him the compliments of the season, and the boys presented him with a, pipe. Mr. R. Adlam was also the recipient of a presentation from the pupils of Standard V.

The death occurred in Wellington yesterday from pneumonia of Mr. Edward Saunders, of the literary staff of

the Wellington Dominion, and Parliamentary reporter of the Taranaki Daily News. The late Mr. Saunders accompanied the Prime Minister during his recent election tours, and it was whilst thus engaged that he caught a severe chill, pneumonia supervening. The late .Mr. Saunders was a son of Mr. Samuel Saunders, for nearly thirty years editor of the Lyttelton Times, and for some time acted as associate editor of that journal. He was chosen by Sir Ernest Shackleton to write the account of his Antarctic expedition. He was a particularly efficient and tireless journalist, and his death at' the early age of forty years will be generally deplored. ’Mr. Saunders enlisted for war service and was in camp at Trentham, but to the general regret of his companions ill-health sent him back to civil life. He leaves a widow and three children.

A tribute to Sir Ernest Rutherford was paid by Mr. Justice Chapman, when speaking at the New Plymouth High School breaking-up ceremony, last night. A few years ago, he said, a boy named Ernest Rutherford attended Nelson College; his parents now lived in New Plymouth. Today Sir Ernest Rutherford was the acknowledged head of physical science and had made perhaps more and greater discoveries in physics than any other living man. It was difficult to compare Sir Ernest with the great, men of the past, but history might give to him a place such as it had given Sir Isaac Newton. What had happened to Sir Ernest Rutherford might happen to any of those boys present. It was a lesson to them to keep abreast of the times, and perhaps one or more of them would come to the front and take a great place in the affairs of the world.