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Taranaki Daily News, 17 July 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Rev. R. Franklin will be inducted to the curacy of St. Mary's, Hawera, by the Bishop of Wellington to-morrow. The appointment of Mr. W. B. Grant on the Revaluation Committee for New Plymouth, has been gazetted, Mr. Herbert Southcombe, for many years a resident of Waverley, has been appointed manager of the Moa Farmers' dairy store, and enters upon his duties on Monday, July 26th. Mr. T. M. Wilford, M.P., for Hutt, who returned by the Tofua after a visit to America, took the oath and life seat in the House of Representatives on Thursday. Messrs. William Morris, Andrew Anderson, Edward McGonell, Henry Luckin, and Joseph Henry Badley have been appointed rangers for the Taranaki district under the Animals Protection Act. Mr. A. C. Owen, 8.E., A.M.1.E.E., M.A.M.1.E.E., district electrical ongineer, Canterbury, which includes the Lake Coleridge power system, is relinquishing that position to join Messrs. Blair Mason and Lee, marine and hydraulic engineers, New Plymouth. * 'inc comprehensive practical experience of this expert should be of great advantage to the firm, as well as to districts requiring their professional services. . A London cable says Miat the late Dr. Ernest Morrison, political adviser to China, left estate valued for English probate purposes at £27,545 gross. He bequeathed all his Chinese property to his wife, and other property fn trust to his children. He directed that the latter should be educated at an English public school and go thence to Oxford, afterwards completing their education at Harvard or McGill universities, with a further course at some European university. Dr. M. R. Neligan, formerly Anglican Bishop of Auckland, who is now in England, has been ordered by liis medical advisers to cancel all engagements and take complete rest again for some time, in consequence of a return of the illness that obliged him to resign the bishopric. The present attack, according to the church journal, the Guardian, Is not bo alarming as the one in New Zealand in 1910, and the doctors give every hope of a restoration of power after a period of rest,

Yesterday afternoon the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce made a presentation to Captain Kelly, captain of the Kumara, now in port. It will be remembered tha;t Captain Kelly was in charge of the Waiwera, which opened Moturoa to overseas shipping in March, 1.M7, and it was decided that with tho residue of the funds in hand in connection with the celebrations on that occasion a present should be procured for the master of the Ship. This is the first time Captain Kelly has been in New Zealand waters since. The presentation took place aboard the Kumara in the presence of the chairman and members of the Harbor Board and executive members of the Chamber of Commerce, and was made by the vice-presi-dent, (Mr. r. C. List) in the absence of the •president (Mr. K. P. Webster). Mr. List referred to the opening of "the havb6r to overseas shipping, and the desire of the province to suitably mark the occasion, and expressed the hope that befpre long they would be able to see more of the overseas captains in their port. As they could see, the Harboi Board was greatly improving, in keeping with the requirement? of the rich district it served. Captain Kelly suitably responded, and afterwards the lieaith of the captain, and the welfare of the borough were toasted.