PERSONAL

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 38, 16 February 1929, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr R- 1). hewers returned last night from aj business trip to Auckland.

Mr T. W. Rhodes, formerly member for Thames, has taken over the Coromandel News.

Sir Truby King 18 a ' passenger for Auckland by the Ulimaroa, which left Sydney yesterday.

The management committee of the Taranaki Rugby Union .last night passed a resolution of sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr. Phil Nathan, of Wellington, who was elected a life member of the Union in 1912.

The death occurred in Sydney yesterday of Mr. W. G. Conley, a director of the Sydney Morning Herald and formerly general manager, after an illness, says a cable message".* Mr. Conley was born at Eton Vale, Queensland, in 1868. He leaves one son and one daughter.

Mr. A. Morse, custodian of the E'gmont Racing Club's course, who ha,s) been ia IwelUbnown figure as starter at race meeting in Taranaki ,fpr many years past was last week re-appointed by the Waverley Racing Club to officiate at that club’s jjjoijfiiQoming fixt/ure. Mr. Morse has .been the starter at the Waverley course for the past ten seasons. He first officiated as a starter at the Opujnake Rafting (Club’s meeting sixteen years ago, and has held the position at the coastal club’s meetings continuously ever since. In addition to the Opunake and Waverley Clubs, Mr. Morse is the starter if or the Stratford Racing Club, the Egmont-Waverley Hunt Club and the Taranaki and Hawera Trotting Clubs.