PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 November 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A Timaru message reports the deatn of Mr. Thomae Hawkey, ex-Mayor of Timaru, aged 61. Detective T. Fitzgibbon, of Hastings, and formerly stationed in Taranaki, arrived in New Plymouth by the mail train last night on a few days’ holiday. Mr. W. E. Mollineaux Guy, who for some years resided in New Plymouth, has joined the staff of the Banking Trust Company of New York at its Paris office. Mr. Bert. Boon, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Boon, of New Plymouth, passed in ten out of eleven subjects at the recent Auckland Teachers’ Training College examinations. The death of Mi. Mildurn, a director of the Cunard Line and the Commonwealth and Dominion Lines, is announced in a London cable message. Mr. A. G. Strachan, of Wanganui, has been appointed manager of the New Plymouth United Friendly Societies’ Dispensary. A cable from Rome announces the death of Baron Sonnino, a distinguished Italian statesman. He wcus Foreign Minister during the war and was one of Italy’s representatives at the Peace Conference. The death occurred at the Hawera Hospital on Thursday of Mr. Levi (Ned) Hurley,' of Eltham. Deceased had been very ill for some time past and his death was not unexpected. The late Mr. Hurley was a returned soldier, and was only 37 years of age. Sir Francis Bell (Attorney-General and Leader of the Legislative Council), who has been abroad on an eight months’ trip, is expected back on the Tahiti, due in Wellington on December 2 At a meeting of the executive of the New Plymouth Tourist and Expansion League on Thursday evening, Mr. Gordon Fraser was appointed chairman for the ensuing year, Mr. T. C. List, who held the position for eight years, having resigned. The Rev. Dean McKenna, recently appointed to the charge of the New Plymouth Roman Catholic Church, who has been seriously indisposed and confined to his bed for several weeks, has now recovered sufficiently to walk about. He will leave in the course of the next two weeks for Masterton. At Patea on Thursday evening the townspeople farewelled Mr. and Mrs. Harrison, who are leaving for Whakatane. The Mayor presented Mr. Harrison with a silver rose bowl and a framed photograph as a mark of appreciation of the public services he had rendered during the twelve years he had been a resident of the town. Lieutenant-Colonel J. Pow has been selected from a large number of applicants to fill the position of Dominion secretary to the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, which will be rendered vacant ■by the retirements of Mr. E. C. Jack. Colonel Pow was educated at the Southland Boys’ High School and the Otago University. He spent seven years as a teacher in the Southland Boys’ High •School and eight years in the Otago Boys’ High School. He was a member of one of the New Zealand contingents in South Africa. He joined the N.Z.E.F. in 1915 as a lieutenant and was discharged in 1919 as a lieutenant-colonel. During his period of service at the front he was twice wounded, was mentioned in dispatches and received the D.S.O. Colonel Pow, 'for the last two years, has occupied the position of general secretary to the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association, which position he has now resigned. He will take up his new duties next month.