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Taranaki Daily News, 8 August 1923, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. J. B. Henry has been appointed manager of the Bank of New Zealand. Messrs. C. E. Bellringer and A. Morton were passengers for Wellington by the mail train yesterday morning. The Dunedin Presbytery yesterday sustained the First Church’s call to Dr. Merrington, of Brisbane. The salary is £709, the use of the manse and £5O motor-car allowance. Constable Schon, who w"s removed to the New Plymouth hospital last week suffering from influenza and ptomaine poisoning, was reported yesterday to be much better. Constable W. Butler, of the New Plymouth police force, returned from holiday leave last night. Constable J. O’Donovan leaves for Wellington on annual furlough this morning. The Very Rev. Monsignor Power left Hawera for Wellington on Monday to attend the Month’s Mind in connection with the death of Dean McKenna, of New Plymouth. A Sydney cable says Miss Dingman, the world’s industrial secretary of the Young Women's Christian Association, has arrived there from a tour of China and Japan. She sails for New Zealand on Friday. Mr. W. F. Worley, an old and wellknown resident of Nelson, died there on Saturday evening, after a two days’ illne&8, at the age of 70. Mr. Worley, a native of London, came to New Zealand as a young man in 1875, and settled at Nelson, where he was engaged in school teaching for about 37 years, retiring 11 years ago. Messrs. A. Corkill (chairman of the Inglewood County Council), N. R. Cleland (chairman of the Whangamomona County Council) and J. S. Connett (chairman of the Taranaki County Council) left for Wellington yesterday morning to attend the conference of County Councils. The death of Mr. John Poland, father of Mr. H. Poland, M.P.., occurred at Auckland on Friday, at the age of 85 years. The late Mr. Poland arrived in New Zealand from Ireland in 1863 by the ship Ganges, and shortly afterwards settled at Tuakau, where lie resided until a few years ago, when he went to Auckland to live. One of New Zealand’s earliest colonists Mr. B. Gahagan, died, in Christ church at the age of 88 years. He was born in London in 1835, and shortly after the family sailed for Australia, settling in Adelaide. In the year 1848, with his parents, he came to New Zealand in a w r haling vessel, and after a voyage of six weeks from Australia, landed in the Bay of Islands.