PERSONAL ITEMS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 29 August 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

f X a mfull meeting of *1» committee of the Taranaki Trotting Club, Mr D le C. Morgan, who has been actinesecretary pro tern, was appointed permanently to the position. The Rev. J. R. Burgin has been appointed vicar of St. Peter's Church, Onehunga, in place of Canon J. Haselden. Mr Burgin has been on war service, having left New Zealand as chaplain to the Rifle Brigade in May, 1917, and has since been acting aschaplain to returned soldiers. A Levin telegram states that Mr J. MoKeiizie, a returned soldier, formerly prominent in Labor circles in Wellington, has been chosen as Labor candidate for the Otaki seat. Last night's Gazette announces the appointment of the following Justices of the Peace in the province of Taranaki : Henry William Bovis (Whangamomona), Michael Geever (Whangamomona), John Joseph Meldon (Manaia), William Henry Nosworthy (Waitara), Michael O'Brien (Opunake), and Herbert Wells (Pukearuhe).

Mr Evan Parry, late hydro-elecfcrie engineer in New Zealand/ arrived in England with Mrs Parry on June 17th, having travelled by way of America (reports an exchange). Landing at San Francisco, Mr Parry visited a number of water-power plants there, and then proceeded to Chicago. He travelled «■ the electric railways between Chicago,, Milwaukee?, and San Paulo, and spent some days also in Toronto. Mr Parry is now engineier-in-chief of the English Electric Co., Ltd., a very large amalgamation of several older concerns embracing works in Rugby, Bradford, Coventry, Preston, and Glasgow. The work of th*» company will be mainly in Great Britain.

Colonel the Hon. R. Heaton Rhodes was at Oxford recently for the conferring of degrees of honor on the principal leaders in the war. Colonel Rhodes was a contemporary of Field-Marshal Haig at Brazenose, and rowed in tubfours with him, another member of the four being Mr J. Breeds, of Pakiatna. Brazenose entertained Sir B\ Haig, and Colonol Rhodes sat near him at the luncheon. The Field Marshal was carried shoulder high round the quad. Another contemporary of Colonel Rhodes, who was also at the celebration was Sir George Askwitih, the famous LaW arbitrator. Some thirty years ago Sir George was in New Guinea as a member of the staff of General Sir P. Seratehley, but owing to developing fever he had to return to England.