PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 June 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. A. Morton and Mr. J. S. Connett, who have been on a visit to Tailiape district 1 on business connected with the Egmont Box Company, have returned. Word has been received that MachineGunner E. Fischer, son of Mr. B. Fischer, Norfolk Road, is arriving home by the Kigoma, due at Wellington about July 15th. Private Jjames Crmhton, V.C., was accorded a civio reception at ,the Auckland Town Hall on Thursday, the lie.turned Soldiers' Association co-operating with the Mayor in honoring the distinguished soldier.—Press Assn. Mr. A. D. Perkins, secretary of the Egmont A. and P. Association, yesterday received advice of the death in England of his only sister. In March last he lost his only surviving brother. A young man named Alfred Rawson, who pleaded guilty before Mr. J. W. Poynton, 8.M., yesterday morning, to the theft of an overcoat, the property of Mr. W. Blake, of Hawera, from the Orosvenor Hotel on Wednesday was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. There were several similar convictions against accused. Chaplain H. 0. Hahby, ex-curate of St. Mary's New Plymouth, who has been in charge of the Church of England Institute for Soldiers at Rotorua for some | time, has resigned to return to his parish |at Fairlie (South Canterbury). Beforo taking holy orders, the Rev. Mr. Hanby, whose father was editor of the Nelson | Mail, was a New Zealand journalist.

Mr. D. E. Leslie, who has been first assistant at the Masterton District High School for the past seven years, and who Is also director of the Masterton Technical School, has been appointed headmaster of the Wellington Terrace School in succession to Mr. Q. MacMorran. Mr. Leslie Has previously served under the Hawke's Bay and Marlborough Education Boards.

Mr. C. B. Lumsden, of Windsor Road, Inglewood, has received word that his son, Gunner C. B- Lumsden, is returning by the Tahiti, which is due to arrive at Auckland on July 2. Gunner Lumsden, who was twice wounded, was attached to the 2nd Battery, N.Z.F.A., and left New Zealand with the Main Body, seeing service in Egypt, Gallipoli, and France. After .the armistice was* signed he spent some time on the Rhine, thus having gone right through from the commencement of the war to the end.

The death; is reported of Mr. John Coogan.sen., of Patea, in his 79th year. He was for some time president of .the New Zealand Liberal and Labor League, and was made a Justice of the Peace in 1900. He was predeceased by his wife in 1806, and is survived by a family of five sons and two daughters, these including Messrs M. T. Coogan (Melbourne), E. W. Coogan (Queensland), J. A. Coogan (Sydney), E. H. Coogan (Weilington), and Mesdames J. Lambourno (Sydney) and T. Glover (Kopua, Hawke's Bay). the conclusion of the weekly practice last night, the choir of the Whiteley Memorial Church entertained Mir. A, Gray to supper in the lecture hall, for the purpose of making a presentation to him on the occasion of his severing his connection with the choir on account of leaving the district. The Eev. J. Napier Milne expressed the church's appreciation of Mr. Gray's Work, and then invited Mr. W. Ambury to make a presentation of a gold-m6unted fountain pen. In doing so, Mr. Ambury referred to the difficulties under which Mr. Gray had taken «p the work, as his task of organising technical education in the district had made it necessary for him to be away on occasions, and latterly the demands of that work in the Stratford and Hawera districts had made further inroads upon his time. . He was confident, however, that Mr. Gray had done his best for the choir, who desired that he snould take away with him some tangible expression of their appreciation of his work. They also wished Mr, and Mrs. Gray success and happiness in their new sphere, and hoped they would find a nich in the church at Hawcra in which to use their ability. (Applause.) Mr. Gray suitably responded.