PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 April 1927, Page 8

PERSONAL.

A cable states that Sir Eyre Hutson, Governor of Fiji, and General Richardson, Governor of Samoa, are passengers alxiard H. M. S. Diomede from Suva for Vila.

Mr. J. Howard, manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Te Araroa, Poverty Bay, and Mrs. Howard, who have been spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. F. S. B. Waite at Inglewood, left last week on their return.

At a meeting of directors of the Brett Printing and Publishing Company, Mr. W. Cecil Leys was appointed managingeditor and chairman of the company, Mr. J. A. Sherriff, secretary, and Mr. A. R. Brett a director, in place of the late late Sir Henry Brett.

Mr. J. A. Bond, the well-know.i Auckland artist, after an absence of 18 years from New Zealand, is now a visitor to ew Plymouth. Mr. Bond is making a sketching tour of New Zealand prior to further rambles abroad. He came to Taranaki after a trip on the Wanganui I . lavl,l K ffed commissions from Australia to paint Mt. Egmont. The death of Mr. Cuthbert Cowan, aged 92, is reported in a Press Association telegram from Invercargill. J( r . Cowan was a member of Parliament during the Atkinson regime, was one of the founders of the Southland Frozen Meat Company, and for many years was a member of the Land Board. He owned extensive property at Kauana, and was a prominent breeder of Romney sheep. On the occasion of his leaving Opunake for Whangarei, the Rev. E. B. Chambers was entertained by members of the Methodist Church and presented with a clock. His two sons received leather school bags and .the baby a box. Several members spoke appreciatively of the splendid service rendered the cause of Methodism by the departing minister, who appropriately replied. The Rev. Coatsworth has been appointed to Opunake.

Dr. T. H. A. Valintine, Director-Gen-eral of Health, made an inspection of the New Plymouth Public Hospital yesterday and expressed himself very well pleas- with the management. He was sorry that he was not able to meet the resident medical superintendent (Dr. J. M. Clarke), who is away at present. In the afternoon Dr. Valintine discussed financial questions with members of the board. To-day he will visit the hospital again and will subsequently leave for Hawera.

The Rev. W. J. Elliott, formerly of New Plymouth, who has been chosen president-designate of the Methodist Conference for 1928, was given a farewell at Cambridge on Wednesday last on the eve of his removal to Papakura. The Methodist schoolroom was crowded to overflowing, and officials of the church and residents of Cambridge and the surrounding districts bore testimony to the value of the work of both Mr. and Mrs. Elliott, and the esteem in which they were held by all sections of the community. Presentations were made by the different organisations of the church. On the previous Saturday Mrs. Elliott was the recipient of a presentation from the members of the Cambridge Croquet Club.

There passed away in. Wanganui during last week one of the oldest pioneers of this coast, Mr. Alfred John Symes, who was born at Haydon Lodge, Mendip Hills, England, in 1848. In 1857, when a lad of eight, he arrived with his parents in New Plymouth, where his father, the late Mr. Francis Symes, farmed until 1864. Their home was then burned by the Maoris, and the fardily came to Wanganui and lived at Warrengate. The late Mr. Alfred Svmes, who was educated at Nelson College, saw service in the Maori War, for which he received the New Zealand war 'medal. For 27 years (says the Wanganui Chronicle) he was a member of the old Alexandra Cavalry, being one of the original members and the first one to receive the 20 years’ volunteer long service medal. He was also one of the original fifty foundation members of the St. Andrew Kilwinning Masonic Lodge, Wanganui. After a long illness, an old resident of Hawera, Mr. Nathan Charles Y'oung, died on Sunday. He was born at Hawthorn, Victoria (Australia), 65 years ago, and came to New Zealand with his parents. Mr. Young was resident in the South Island until he was 14 years of age, when he came to Wanganui, and after living for some years in that town and Patea, took up his residence in Hawera about 40 years ago. He was in business as a butcher in Hawera until about 12 years ago, when, as the result of an accident, he was laid up at his home, and he had been practically an invalid for years past. The late Mr. Young was formerly connected with the Egmont Racing Club, and the Egmont Agricultural and Pastoral Association. He leaves a wido.z and a family of five. His children are: Mrs. Eva Branthwaite, Misses Evelyn Maud and Violet Lillian Young; Messrs. Charles Nathan, and Horace Wilford Young.