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Taranaki Daily News, 17 July 1929, Page 8

PERSONAL

The Rev. R. R. Hailey Trill, vicar <&, Te Awamutu, has tendered his resignation and accepted the charge of the Kaitaia parish.

The resignation of Dr. E. T. G. Miller/ house surgeon at Waikato Hospital, was received by the Hospital Board last week. Dr. Miller has taken up private practice at Shannon.

A Sydney message reports the death of Mr.’ John Gale at Queanbeyan, in his 99th year. He was the oldest journalist in Australia. He founded the Queanbeyan Age in 1860. Mr. Sloan Morpeth, the New Zealand open golf champion, was in New Plymouth yesterday on his way by motor to Wellington, where he will play in tha Hutt Golf Club's tournament to-morrow. On Friday he will leave New Zealand with the Kirk Windeyer Cup team for Australia.

Mr. F. W. Dawsori, chief inspector o’f the Bank of New Zealand at the head office, Wellington, will become manager of the Auckland branch on the retirement of Mr. J. B. Henry at the end of September, states a Press Association message.

Mr. W. Macfarlane, secretary of the Waverley Racing Club and the EgmontWanganui Hunt Club, will not now un-. dergo the expected operation at Wellington, medical treatment apparently proving successful. Mr. Macfarlane is still in Wellington buC’it is expected ho will be able to return home much sooner than was at first anticipated.

One of the oldest settlers in the Warkworth district, Mr. Andrew Hood, died at his residence, Kaipara Flats, aged 94 years. Born in Brechin, Forfarshire, in 1835, Mr. Hood left Scotland at the age of 19 to seek his fortune in Australia. After a short stay in that country the lure of gold in Otago drew him over to New Zealand, where he followed the gold-digger’s life for some time. Coming north he joined a survey party, and subsequently took up a bush section at Kaipara Flats, in 1870. There, with his brother John as partner, a home was made, and before long “Stanley Farm” was known all round the district as an object lesson on what could be done. Mr. John Hood died in the early ’eighties. .

The approaching retirement is an-, nounced of Mr. John B. Henry, manager of the Auckland branch of the Bank of New Zealand, who next month, will complete 41 years’ service, with the bank in England and New Zealand. His association with the bank will terminate on September 30, and a few weeks later he will leave with Mrs. Henry on a year’s holiday visit to tho Old Country.* Mr. Henry was born at Macduff, Banffshire, .Scotland, and started his banking career as a youth in tho North of Scotland Bank on April 11, 1881. He was indentured for four years and displayed such aptitude that at the age of 17 he was appointed accountant in the Macduff office of the bank. In 1887 he was elected associate by examination of the Institute of Bankers in Scotland. In August, 1888, Mr. Henry joined the Colonial Bank of New Zealand in London prior to its absorption in the Bank of New Zealand. He obtained a transfer to New Zealand in 1891, and on arrival at Bluff was sent to the office in Dunedin. During tho two succeeding years he received transfers to Oamaru, Wellington and Palmerston North. When absorption camo' in 1895 he entered the service of tho present Bank of New Zealand, in which ho has remained ever since, receiving successive appointments as manager at Hokitika, Greymouth, Masterton and Wellington. After two years in the post of inspector at the head office, Wellington, Mr. Henry-was appointed manager of the Auckland branch sill years ago.