PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 29 August 1924, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. S. H. Thomas, who has been assistant manager of the Nugget Polish Company of New Zealand, Ltd., for some years, has been appointed manager of the company.

Mr. F. W. Grainger, manager for the West Coast Refrigerating Company, at Patea, has been appointed inspector and supervisor of shipping under the Dairy Produce Control Board.—Press Assn.

Captain W. P. Collins, of the Maheno, is retiring owing to ill-health after 46 years’ service, during which he never had an accident (says an Auckland telegram). For twelve years Captain Collins was in the New Zealand Shipping Company’s service, joining the Union Company in 1890. Mr. F. E. Clarke, accountant in the Stratford branch of the Farmers’ Cooperative Society, has been promoted to a responsible position in the head office of the firm at Hawera. Mr. Clarke will be missed from the ranks of the Stratford bowlers and the golf club, in both of which pastimes lie took a prominent part. His successor is Mr. W. E. Williams, of the Hawera office. Mr. Williams takes up his new duties on Monday.

In the death of Mrs. Jane Speck, at the age of 77 years and after a short illness, Taranaki loses another link with the early history of the province. Mrs. Speck’s father and mother (Mr. and Mrs. John French) came to New Plymouth by the ’ sailing ship William Bryant in 1841. Eight years later the late Mrs. Speck was born, and during the whole course of her life she has been intimately associated with the progress of the "province. \ Her husband (who served in the Taranaki Mounted Rifles during the war) predeceased her many years ago. Deceased. who lived at Stratford," is survived by seven sons and four daughters.