PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 April 1927, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Dr. T. H. A. Valintine, Director-Gen-eral of Health, who is on a visit to Taranaki, spent Wednesday l evening in Inglewood and left there by the mail train yesterday morning cn route to Hawera. A vote of sympathy with the parents of the late Edward Pepper, the English public school boy who died in the New Plymouth hospital following a quarry accident, was passed by the council of the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce last night. A Vancouver message states that the passengers on the Aorangi include Sir Mark Sheldon for Sydney, also the Hon. Ernest Lapointe, Minister of Justice, to represent Canada at the Canberra opening. Mr, Lapoi. is a powerful statesman and a sparkling orator. He stood aside to permit Mr. King to become Premier. Advice has been received of the death at Palmerston North of Miss Iris Jones, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. Jones, who for many years were well-knov residents of New Plymouth. Miss Jones had recently joined the staff of the Palmerston North hospital, and her death at the outset of her career occasioned wide regret. A Wellington message says that Mr. Corkill, assistant-general manager of the Bank of New Zealand, will be shortly retiring on pension, and is likely to bo relieved of his duties at the end of May. His present intention is to go Home on a visit, inclndi. ; his native Isle of Man. He has spent more than 50 years in banking. The death is reported of Captain William Westrupp, of Stoke, aged 73. A native of Nelson, Captain Westrupp was for the greater part of his life engaged in the Bay trade, ami was well known on the waterfront. In the late ’Bo’s he was stroke of the Wakatu Rowing Chib’s four-oared crew, who, in addition to winning the New Zealand championship, won every race they competed iu at Picton, Wellington, Wanganui and other places. He leaves a widow and a family of five sous and three daughters.