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Taranaki Daily News, 27 October 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. O. J. Hawken, M.P. for Egmont, arrived in Eltham by the mail train last night. Sir Percival Phillips, a distinguished journalist and war correspondent, will represent the Australian press Association on board the Renown during the Prince of Wales’ voyage to India. Mr. J. C. Datson, who has been associated with Messrs. T. Mandeno Jackson’s Waikato business for the last eight years, intends retiring from the firm's service at the end of the present month. Mr. Datson is an old Manaia resident.

The death occurred at Foxton last week of Mrs. Lydia Hoskins, widow of Mr. Edwin Hoskins, formerly of Wellington. She was the second daughter of Captain H. Jackson, of Te Awaiti, Tory Channel, and she was born, at Te Awaiti in 1848. It was Captain Jackson who brought the first whaling vessel to New Zealand, the barque Carolina. The late Mrs. Hoskins resided in Wanganui for many years, and went through some stirring times there during thu Maori War. She leaves two sons and three daughters, one son being Mr. E. A. Hoskins, of Petone.

Mt. John Wood Paulin, the Otago weather forecaster, died suddenly on Saturday at Dunedin. Mr. Paulin, who was 66 years of age, was a native of Chalmsford, Essex, and came to Otago in 1882. Of a scientific bent, with a liking for Nature observations, he took to meteorology as a specialty, and regularly recorded arid forecasted the ’’weather for 30 years, his observations being o-f great value to Otago and all the South Island.

An old resident of New Zealand. Mr. Frank Stephen Canning, aged 80 years, died on Saturday at his residence, Auckland. Deceased arrived in Dunedin from Britain in 1858, and some years later he became proprietor of the Mataura. Ensign, published at Gore. Subsequently he held an interest in the Bruce Herald and in the Sixties was a member of the proprietary of the Taranaki News. He was for a time managing director of the last mentioned paper. Mr. Canning was also engaged in business in other towns in the Taranaki Province. He was a member of the Society of Freemasons, and was also a prominent bowler. He is survived by Mrs. Canning, 12 children, 28 grandchildren, and 22 great grandchildren. In .lune, 1919, Mr. and Mrs. Canning celebrated their diamond wedding at the residence of their son-in-law, Mr. M. S. McNichol, of Palmerston North.