PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 23 May 1928, Page 8

PERSONAL

The Rev. F. A. Parry left for Wellington on Monday. He will attend the annual meeting of the New Zealand Alliance as a delegate .from the local branch.

A Wellington message says that at a special meeting of the Board of Governors of the New Zealand Institute, Mr. B. C. Aston w’as elected president in place of the late Dr. J. A. Thomson. Mr. J. A. Valentine, ex-school inspector in Taranaki, has been appointed to attend, as a representative of the Canterbury Education Board, the teachers’ conference in London in July. Mr. Valentine is at present on a trip to England.

A Paris cable states that President Donmergue' conferred on Mr. Norman Brookes, noted Australian tennis player, the decoration of Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in recognition of his distinguished tennis career a»nd his services to French tennis players in Australia.

The death of Sir George Frampton, R.A., aged 68, is reported by cable from London. Sir George was a well-known sculptor. He executed several statues of Queen Victoria, the lions at the entrance to the extension of the British Museum, and the popular Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Sir George also made the Nurse Cavell memorial in Trafalgar Square.

Mr. C. Dinniss, of the staff of the Commercial Bank, New Plymouth, who has 'been transferred to Wellington, left by yesterday morning’s mail train to take up his new appointment. Prior to leaving he was the recipient of presentations from his fellow officers in the bank, and also from the members of the Old Boys’ football and cricket clubs, of which he was a member.

Mr. Edward Cossey, who died on Friday last, at the age of 88 years, was an old settler of New Zealand, having arrived in the Dominion in 1862. He was the second son of the late Mr. William Cossey, of Drury, England. On arrival in New Zealand" he settled in Dunedin and followed the business of a building contractor, subsequently removing to Auckland. About 21 years ago he cam© to New Plymouth, and for some years had been living in retirement. His wife predeceased him about three years ago. He leaves a family of six daughters and two sons, namely, Mr. Ed. Cossey, Runciman; Mr. G. Cossey, Mt. Eden, Auckland; Mrs. Otto, Ponsonby, Auckland; Mrs. Roy Thorne, Frankton Junction; Mrs. London, Tauranga; Mrs. Webb, Nelson: Mrs. R. Flyger, New Plymouth; and Mrs. L. Oman," New Plymouth.

Advice has been received that Mrs. Mary Nichols, relict of the late Mr. Charles Nichols, partner in the old firm of Dalgety and Co. before the limited company was formed, died in London at the great age of 91. Mrs. Nichols was the second daughter of the late Mr. Robert Cowie, of Brookstead, of Tasmania, who took up that property just 100 years ago. She married Mr. Nichols in 1858 at Cressy, Tasmania, and visited New Zealand with her husband for the first time in 1869. It will be remembered by many that Mr. Charles Nichols was killed on the last trip of .the coach before the opening of the PalmeratonOamaru railway. Mrs. Nichols is survived by three sons —Colonel J. Cowie Nichols, of Kuriheka, Maheno, Messrs. Cyril Nichols (London), Septimus Nicbols (Tasmania) —and two daughters, Lady Bond and Mrs. Fell White (London). Two sons predeceased her. Mr. W. H. Nichols was killed in action in France, and Mr. Charles Nichols died in New Zealand.