PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 5 July 1929, Page 10

PERSONAL

Messrs. P. G. Nops and B. Atkinson have returned to Inglewood after a three weeks’ tour of the North Island.

Mr. C. E. Whitaker, managing director' of the Deucher Company, Ltd., has been elected chairman of the Overseas Shipping- Representatives’ Association iffi Australia, states a Sydney cable. < ' Mr. G. W. Stubbs, Hawera, who has retired from his position as secretary of the Waimate Plains Dairy. Co., haa been appointed to an important position with the linn of Newton King, Ltd.

The death of Mr. William James Bowles, aged GO, proprietor of a big drapery establishment,-is reported from . Christchurch. He was inspecting a cat in a motor garage last night when he - stepped back into a pit, receiving sev* t ere. injuries. He did not regain consciousness, dying' in hospital. He leaves) ■ a wife and two sons.

Mr. “Jerry” Otterson left, New Plymouth for Wanganui yesterday after giving a short address to the High School boys in the Assembly Hal), reeito ing a portion of Elbert Hubbard's “Message to Garcia” and also “Jim Bludso.. On' Wednesday night he broadcast to children as “Uncle Jerry.” Mr. Otterson has made a good recovery from tho injury to his -spine incurred nearly 30 years ago in a bicycle accident. Ha has for many years been on the. Parliamentary staff, where ho made the acquaintance of Tom Bracken, the AeW Zealand poet, but 'he is now seeking a transfer to the Publicity Department, Ho has spent four months at Waitonm and desires to broadcast the wonders of the caves.