PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 November 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A cable from London says Lady Fuller is marrying Colonel Roland Forestior- Walker in January.

■Mr. A. V. Winchester, of the Bank of Australasia at Dunedin, has boon appointed manager of the branch at Whangarei. A resolution of condolence with the relatives of the victims of last week's /lying tragedy was passed by the Taranaki Hospital Board yesterday. At yesterday's meeting the Taranaki Hospital Board accepted with regret the resignations of Sisters V. A. Milroy and 0. Paget. The resignations are to take effect from December Ist. News has been received in Hawera of the death at Chmtchuroh of Mrs. W. D. Dean, wife of Mr. Dean, headmaster of the Sydenham School, after a long illness. Mrs. Dean is a sister of Mrs. G. H. Buckeridge. At a meeting of ■teachers and members of school committees :it Wanganui a vote of deep sympathy was accorded to the relatives of the victims of the sad tragedy which took place last week at New Plymouth. Knox College Council (Dunedin) has selected Mr. W. P. Morel! (son of the rector of the Otago Buys' High School) as the first Ross Fellow. This is a fellowship for research, worth £lf>o a. year for two years, and Mr. Morell has elected to carry on research in history.

The death occurred at Wauganui on Monday of Mrs. Mary Hall, relict of the late Mr. .lames Ball, of Kakaramea. The deceased, who was one of the very earliest settlors on this coast, had (says the Patea Press) for many years lived in the Kakaramea district, afterwards removing to Wanganui. Major .). H. Luxford lias relinquished the command of the Kith (Waikato) Regiment, to which Major W. N, Gibb has been appointed. Major ftibb, although on the strength of the Kith Regiment, was in England on the outbreak of war, and at once ottered his services, being attached to the Black Watch, with which famous regiment he saw service in France, and was subsequently stationed in India. Amongst gallant officers who have won the V.C. at the cost of tlreir lives the case of Captain Andrews, of the Indian Medical Service, is particularly interesting and tragic. He was (says a London correspondent) formerly a captain in the Salvation Army, and his wife (now his widow) was his colonel in the same organisation. They were a devoted couple, and the record of the dead V.C.'s work in India is a remarkable one. Captain Andrews was a fine-looking, middle-aged man with strong aesthetic features, intensely sympathetic eyes juultmouth, who wore rimless pince-nez, and looked the part most thoroughly in his Salvation Army uniform. His was just the selfsacrificing and humane Christian spirit of which such a deed might be expected in times of crisis as that for which his widow, the Salvation Army colonel, will now receive the pathetic "tenpennyworth of bronze."