PERSONAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 144671, 4 May 1915, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Surgeon Harold .Denham, son of the Queensland Premier, was on board the destroyer Lark m the North Sea fight.

Bishop Sprott, of Wellington, visits Hawera on May 16 for the' institution of the Rev. C. H. G. Cowed, B;A., and proceeds to Opunake qn the 18th inst., before returning to Wellington.

Staying in Wellington just now are Air. A. D. Cox, the well-known New Zealand tennis player,- and Mrs. Cox, who have come on holiday from Calcutta, where Air. Cox it on the staff of the New, Zealand Insurance Company.

Air. Victor Fitzherbert, of the Little Theatre Company, Sydney, who joined when Altss Violet Paget and her people were in Brisbane, signalised his joining the company by getting married. The lady was Aliss Dorothy Gill, who, like Air. Fitzherbert, is a New Zealander.

The members of , the Prisons Board who have been visiting New Plymouth —Sir Robert Stoiit (chairman), Dr. Hay (Inspector-General of Alental Hospitals), Messrs. G. Fenwick .(Dunedin), W. Reece (Christchurch), and Cl B. Jordan (Under-Secretary for Justice)—left by the mail train this morning for Auckland.

The Eltham Argus says that Charlie Barnard’s services- have..jbeen_accepted and he lias gone into the Trentham camp with' the rank of corporal. This makes five sons that 3lr. and Mrs. Barnard have sent on the services of the Empire. Three—Frank, Harry and Jim —are already at the front, Charlie and Joe aro in training atTrentham. Lieut. F. K. Turnbull, tvho' is in the hospital at ■Alexandria: suffering from wounds, is very well known.''in Xew Plymouth, where hp was connected for some years with the legal firms . of Messrs. .Wilson and Grey and Messrs. Standish and Standish. subsequently leaving for Wanganui to practise on.his own account. Lieut. Turnbull was a very prominent swimmer, and also took a very great interest in the territorial movement, being appointed to a lieutenancy. On the outbreak of war he iinmediatelv volunteered for the front, as also did his brother. Captain Alan Turnbull. who served'in the Boer war and is now with tho Canadians as an expert on explosives. ' The new Mayor of Auckland (Mr. J. H. .Gunson) is a native of tho city, aiid is 37 years of age. Ho entered his late father’s grain and produce merchant’s business on leaving school, and lor the past ten years ho has conducted the business on his own account. He first entered tmblic life in, 1903 as a, member of the council of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce. Two years later ho was elected president of that bodv. 1 He was elected, member of the Harbour Board in 1009, has sat on that both; continuously since, and has been chairman of it for the past four years. Ho is one of tho ablest and most progressive of the young Aucklanders, and the ability that ho has displayed as chairman of tho Harbour Board is recognised even by those who do not see eve to eye with him on all questions.