PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 7 February 1928, Page 6

PERSONAL

The death is reported by cable from Sydney of Mr. David iMcKee Wright, poet and journalist, formerly of Nelson. His age was 61. Mr. J. O. Bennett left New Plymouth yesterday for Auckland to attend a conference of the New Zealand Institute of Optometrists. The Mayor of New Plymouth (Mr. H. V. S. Griffiths) and Mr. Gordon Fraser have been appointed representatives of the borough on the Egmont National Park Board. The Mayor of New Plymouth (Mr. H. V. S. Griffiths) and the town clerk (Mr. F. T. Bellringer) will represent the borough at the annual conference of the Municipal Association of New Zealand to be held at Nelson on March 14. Mr. iQj. J. Crombie was to-night elected a member of the New Zealand Golf Council in place of Major A. E. Conway, who resigned owing to his transfer to Taranaki, states a Press Association message. “I am sorry I never had the pleasure of meeting the late Mr. Newton King,” said Mr. W. R. Morris, the English car manufacturer, at New Plymouth yester. day. He had heard a great deal about Mr. King, who must have been a very remarkable man, he added The death occurred in Wellington on Sunday afternoon of Mr. Alexander Veitch, after a very short illness. He was founder and senior partner of the well-known firm of Veitch and Allen, and a membe of the Wellington City Council for 1915 to 1919. Mr. Veitch was widely known among bowlers both in Sydney an ’ Wellington. He is survived by a family of five daughters and one son.

A resolution of sympathy with the relatives of the late Col. John Ellis was passed at a meeting of the New Plymouth Borough Council last night. In moving the resolution, the Mayor (Mr. H. V. S. Griffiths) referred to the late Col. Ellis’ municipal service, and reminded the councillors that lie was ft member of the Town Board in 1875 and 1870, as well as a member of the first borough council. He was the last surviving member of that first council.

Mr. F. S. Dyson, district engineer of the Public Works Department, has received notice his transfer from Tauranga to Dunedin, and will leave for the South at an early date. Mr. Dyson has been for 28 years with the department, which he joined as a cadet at the head office in Wellington. He has occupied positions as assistant-engineer on the west coast of the South Island, Canterbury and Taranaki, and district engineer at Napier and Tauranga, and has been stationed at Tauranga for the past 7) years. His work at Tauranga has been largely in connection with the construction of the East Coast railway and extensive road works, the expenditure averaging over £300,000 per annum.