PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 8 July 1929, Page 8

PERSONAL

. The death has occurred of Mrs. Louisa Witty, w’ife of the Hon. George Witty, M.L.C. Mr. G. M. Longstaff has been re-elect-ed chairman of directors of the Tarurutangi Co-op. Dairy Company for the fourteenth year in succession.

The appointment of Mr. R. H. Walker as head teacher at the Aria school ha« been authorised by the Auckland Education Board.

After 19 years’ service with the Wanganui Harbour Board as harbourmaster and pilot, Captain P. Mclntyre tendered his resignation at the last meeting of the board, owing to ill-health. Advice has been received in Sydney that Jean Gerardy, the famous Belgian ’cellist, is dead, states a Press Association cable. He toured Australia and New Zealand in 1924.

Mr. J. Hill Motion, B.Sc. (agriculture), B.Sc. (veterinary science), arrived by the lonic from England on Saturday, says a Press Association message from Auckland, to join the Animal Bacteriological Department of the Government laboratories at Wallaceville. Viscount Melville, who for many years was in the diplomatic corps and has held consular posts in many parts of the world, arrived by the lonic at Auckland on Saturday. With Viscountess Melville he is on a holiday visit to New Zealand. —Press Assn.

Canon E. S. Wayne, vicar of Waihi, has resigned his position as Canon of St. Peter’s Cathedral and as chairman of the foreign missions committee of the diocese of Waikato, telegraphs the Hamilton correspondent of the News. He will retain his incumbency at Waihi. At the official service of thanksgiving held at Whiteley Methodist Church last night, the preacher (the Rev. C. Eaton) congratulated the Mayor of New Plymouth (Mr. H. V. S. Griffiths) on his re-election to that office. He was sure members of the church would hope the Mayor would be spared to be instrumental in serving the town and the church.

“This synod desires to place on record its high appreciation of the valuable services of Miss Eva Necker, first headmistress of the Waikato Diocesan School for Girls, whose personality and devotion have contributed so largely to the initial success of the school,,and to express its very deep regret at her coining departure.” This motion was carried by the Waikato Synod on Friday. It was stated that Miss Necker’s sister, Miss Ada Necker, had offered to take charge of the school until a successor was found. Warm tributes were paid to Miss E. Necker’s work.

The death of Mrs. Marien Larson, whose son, Mr. B. Larson, is the Inglewood county clerk, occurred at Ormondville on Friday. Mrs. Larson, who was 86 years of age, was one of the very few remaining of the early settlers of Ruataniwha. With Mr. Larson she settled on the Ruataniwha Plains along with t-- earliest Scottish, Shetland and Norse pioneers, and she spent nearly 60 years in that district. Her busband was killed in an accident just 40 years ago near Takapau. Mrs. Larson leaves five eons and two daughters. One scon, Olex., was killed in the Great War at the Battle of the Somme in September, 1910. There are 29 grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren, all in New Zealand.