PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 June 1925, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Marshal Joffre, the French commander-in-chief in the war, was suddenly taken ill (states a cablegram from Rome).

Mr. E. Dixon, of Hawera, has been elected a member of the Dominion council of the Boy Scout movement. Miss Leila W. Bridgman, National Girls’ Work Secretary of Y.W.C.A. for Australia and New Zealand, is on a visit to New Plymouth. The progress towards recovery of Dr. G. Home, of New Plymouth, who underwent an operation in Auckland last week, continues to be satisfactory, according, to advice received last night. Messrs. R. Masters, M.P. for Stratjord, and O. Hawken, M.P. for Egmont, who have been attending the fusion conference in Wellington, returned by the mail train on Saturday night. Major R. T. McArthur, chief engineer of the Post and Telegraph Department of the Union of South Africa, has begun in Otago a tour of New Zealand as a conimissioner from the South African Government to inquire and -report on the . working of the department in this country, particularly regarding the development of automatics and New Zealand's methods of rural telephone distribution (states a Dunedin telegram). lie will conclude his tour at Auckland. He is accompanied by Mr. E. A. S.hrimpton, chief engineer of the New Zealand department.