PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 February 1923, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr Robert Roylc. managing director of Alfred Roylc and Willan Ltd.. London, was in New Plymotu.li yesterday, and leaves by the mail train this morn-

Mr Eric Colson, who has been on the staff of the New Plymouth branch of the Union Bank for some years, has been transferred to Tcararon, in the Gicborne district, where ho will occupy tne position of Accountant-teller. Mr Colson leaves for Auckland by the Karawa to-night, en route for Gisborne.

There died at Sydney on January 20 a veteran of the Maori war in the pen son of Mr. Samuel Withers. He was a Somersetshire man, and at the ag'* of 15 enlisted in the 40th Regiment (th« Fighting Fortieth), which was dispatched from Melbourne to Taranaki when the war broke out in 1860. Ho reee’ved. his first taste of warfare in Juno in tiie Pukotakuerc engagement. Later ho was engaged in the Waikato. After the war he settled in Sydney, and for many years was on the District Court staff. He wa«s eighty-five years of age.