PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 December 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London message received last night stated that Prince George was doing well.

Mr. O. Hawken, M.P. for Egmont, returned from Wellington by the mail train last night. An iEketahuna message states that Mr. R. L. Gray, of Gisborne, has been appointed resident engineer for the Tararua Hydro-electric Power Board. 'Mr. Eric Lash, of Teed’s Pharmacy, New Plymouth, was successful in passing Section A of the Pharmacy Board s examination recently held in ’Wellington. Messrs. Lambert and Clarke, who represented North Taranaki in the minor associations’ team against the Englishmen at Wanganui, returned to New Plymouth by the mail train last night. A London cablegram states the Maharajah of Cooch Behar died in a London nursing home. He had been ill for some time. The Maharajah, who was head of the -State of Cooch Behar, in India, was born in 1886.

The services of the late Mr. H. A. Stratford as secretary of the North Taranaki Cricket Umpires’ Association were referred to at last night’s meeting of the association by the Rev. W. J. Elliott, who alluded to the enthusiasm and untiring energy of Mr. Stratford. A vote of condolence with his relatives w“as passed. Mr. H. Haseler, who for the past 15 years has been buyer for Messrs. Borthwicks in the district, has been appointed organiser and travelling representative of the Auckland Farmers’ Freezing Company. Mr. Haseler will be leaving for Auckland early next week in order to take up his duties from the commencement of the New Year.

The following appointments of pupil teachers and probationers have been made by the Taranaki Education Board:—Margaret Alice Cameron, pupil teacher, Central School, New Plymouth; George Gernhoefer, probationer, Inglewood; Myrtle Noble ; probationer, Vogeltqwn; Amy Petch( probationer, Fitzroy; Helen C. Valentine, pupil teacher, West End, New Plymouth; Winifred Brown, probationer, Stratford; Marjorie -Leighton, pupil teacher, Hawera; Clarence Nicholls, probationer, Inglewood; Robert E. Wells, pupil teacher, Tawhiti. Further appointments will be made when the results of the matriculation examinations are to hand.

A Kapuni correspondent kindly forwards us a copy of the Honolulu Advertiser containing a report of the death by accident of Mr. L. von Tempsky, only son of the Maori war hero, Major von Tempsky, who with other officers and men were ambuscaded at Te Ngutu-o-te-manu, near Kapuni, and killed. The late Mr. von Tempsky was born in Glasgow in 1858, and came with his father to New Zealand. He afterwards proceeded to Maui, Hawaii, and engaged in ranching. Some time ago the late Mr. von Tempsky paid a visit to the scene of his father s death, being accompanied by the late Mr. Flynn, of Hawera, a Maori war veteran, member of the Te Mutu Domain Board, and, with his daughter, spent an interesting time in the district. He is survived by a son, three daughters, and sistei;, a Mrs. Kettle, of Napier.