PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 February 1927, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Mr. G. W. Rogers, clerk to the Egmont County Council, is making good progress in Wellington, and expects tj return to Opunake in about a fortnight. Dr. A. M. Young will leave Hawera on Friday en route for Edinburgh, where he will do hospital work and taka a post-graduate course. He expects to be away about nine months. Cr. G. Gibson and Mr. M. Hughson have been appointed the representatives of the Egmont County Council on the west committee of the Egmont National Park Beard.

Lieutenant-Colonel R. F. StapletonCotton, who was attached to the Flying Corps during the Great War, has arrived in New Zealand to enjoy some deep-sea fishing at Russell. Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Purser, of Hawera, are staying in New Plymouth for a week prior to going on a motoring tour for two months, when they will include Auckland and Russell in their itinerary. Mrs. John Houston, of Hawera, who has acted as district secretary of the Girl Guide movement since its inception in Hawera, has been appointed district commissioner. The new district will include Hawera, Manaia, Opunake and Patea.

Messrs. T. B. Strong, Assistant-Direc-tor of Education, W. 8. Latrobe, Director of Technical Education, and J. Parr, secondary school inspector, arc at preent in New Plymouth in connection with the amalgamation of the High Schools and Technical College. When speaking at a public meeting at Hawera on Monday, Mr. L. O. Hooker said it was probably unique for a town in New Zealand and Australia to have had three scholarship winners in connection with the Royal Academy of Music, London, and that for nine years a Hawera student would be at that academy—Mdida Hooker, then Walter Fennell, and now Leah Haughton.

The death took place at Masterton on Wednesday of Mr. James Robieson, in his 89th year. The deceased gentleman was very well known in the Wairapa district, having arrived there in 1858, although he came to New Zealand from London about eight years earlier. He married a daughter of the lato Mr. A. W. Renall, who died in 1887. Out of a family of thirteen, eleven are stiU living. The first red deer in the Wairarnpa was liberated by the late Mr. Robieson.

Lady Ward, whose death was reported yesterday, was 61 years of age and was married on December 4, 1883. Of a charming and loveable nature, she was a tower of strength to her husband in his political life, and was recognised as being one of the finest hostesses who ever graced the Prime Minister’s residence in Tinakori Hoad. She took a prominent part in social work, and was one of the prime movers in founding the Girl Guide movement in Wellington. She also did excellent work as president of tho Victoria League, and was keenly interested in the activities of the Navy League. She had been ailing for some time, and shortly after 2 o’clock on Monday afternoon took a bad turn, passing away peacefully in bar sleep that nijjbt- Lady Ward is survived by her husband and four sons and a daughter, twi Son’s'are Mr. Cyril Ward and Mr. Gladstone Ward, of Christchurch, Mr. Vincent Ward and Mr. Pat. Ward, of Wellington; and tho daughter is Mrs. B. B. Wood, of Christ* church.