PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 December 1924, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Mr. R. W. Gibbs has been re-elected to the board of directors of the Bank of New Zealand.

Mr. J. H. Quilliam, who has been on a visit to Australia, returned to New Plymouth yesterday morning.

Sir George and Lady Fenwick, of Dunedin, are passengers by the Maheno, which left Sydney ; for Auckland yesterday afternoon. '

At the half-yearly general meeting of the Bank of NeAY Zealand yesterday it. was announced that Mr. Buckleton, general manlager, would be leaving' for London in February on holiday leave, and a motion expressing the best wishes of the share* holders was passed. Mr. D. Campbell, at present Government grader at Patea and lately general manager of Mells Dairy Col, has been appointed on promotion as chief grader and dairy instructor at Napier. Comma ndanlt Middlemiss, recently stationed in New Plymouth, is here for special S.A. meetings.

News has been received that Mr. Norman Waddle has passed in all subject® in his final medical professional examination at Otago University. Mr. R. R. Tyrer. of Stratford, -was ad-mitted-yesterday as a barrister of the Supreme Court of New Zealand by Mr. Justice MacGregor, his admission being moved by Mr. T. P. Anderson.' Mr. Ray Mowlera, son of Mr. A. M. Mowlem, S.M., has complelted his studies at tlie Otago University School of Medicine, and has obtained hie M.B. degree. A Rotorua message reports the death suddenly on Thursday at the King George Hospital of Miss I. M. Whyte, R.C.C., matron. Miss Whyte had a distinguished war record, crossing to Belgium in August, 1914, on the outbreak of war. She was in charge of casualty clearing stations during, the retreat to the Marne. She was mentioned in dispatches and received at Buckingham Palace and Marlborough House. She was matron on her return to New Zealand at Coromandel, Pukeroa, and Rotorua successively. She graduated at Auckland, and was for 11 years with the Queen Alexandra Imperial Nursing Service and received the Belgian Medaille-de-la-Reine. Yesterday afternoon the body was entrained for Hamilton for burial. Previously services were held at the Anglican Church with military honours, the coffin bearers being officers who served during the war. The medical staff, sistere and nurses and a great attendance of the general public witnessed the ceremony at the railway station, where the Mayor and Maori chiefs made the farewell oration, which wfts deeply impressive.