PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 7 December 1929, Page 8

PERSONAL

Mr. Richard John White, at one time of New Plymouth, died at Mt. Eden, Auckland, yesterday afternoon. Mr. Harry P. Muller has been appointed general manager in New Zealand for J. C. Williamson Ltd. in succession to the late Mr. Bert Royle.

Mr. J. W. Collins, secretary of the Department of Industry and Commerce, has been appointed Trade Commissioner for Canada and the United States.

Mr. John Robert Callaghan, Stratford, was yesterday admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court by Mr. Justice MacGregor. The application was supported by Mr. Alfred Coleman. The Hon. E. A. Ransom, Minister of Public Works, who became ill on Thursr day at a Cabinet meeting, has prac-. tically recovered, states a Press Association message from Wellington, Mr, and Mrs. W. Bamber, Wanganui, celebrated their fifty-second wedding anniversary last week. The celebrations were held in the same homestead in which they have lived all their married lives.

Resolutions of sympathy with the relatives of the late Messrs. W. J. Gray (Okato) and George Cunningham (Fitzroy) were passed at a meeting of tha general committee of the Taranaki Agri-, cultural Society yesterday. Earl Jellicoe, e.v-Governor-General of New Zealand, celebrated his 70th birth-, day on Thursday. Sir Charles Fergusson, the present Governor-General will attain his 05th birthday on January 17. Lord Bledisloe, Governor-General designate, is 62 years of age. The death occurred at Wellington yesterday of Mr, William Henry Sefton Moorhouse, aged 69, a son of the late Mr. W. P. Moorhouse, who was Superin-, tendent of the Province of Canterbury, states a Press Association message. Dur-, ing the war Mr. Moorhouse acted as chairman of one of the military appeal boards, and at the conclusion of the war was appointed chairman of the commission to inquire into and make recommendations in respect to the changing of military administration to a civil administration.

At a Cabinet meeting yesterday, th© Hon. T. M. Wilford’s colleagues took the opportunity of saying farewell to th© new High Commissioner, as that lyas tha last meeting of the Cabinet at which ha was likely to attend, states a Press Association message. The Hon. G. W. Forbes, Sir Apirana Ngata and the Hon. T. K. Sidey made felicitous speeches, and on behalf of the members of the Ministry presented Mr. Wilford with a rug and a similar one for Mrs. Wilford, manufactured in his old electorate. Mr. Wilford leaves for London by the Rangitiki to-day. Mr. P. C. Minns, one of tho two Rhodes scholars selected recently, is a member of the teaching staff of' the Mount Albert Grammar School, and was born at Albany, Western Australia, in 1907. Ho received his early education in the Wairarapa and later was at tie Auckland Grammar School, to which i went with a junior national scholar ? in 1921. Out of school hours Mr. Minns was a brilliant athlete and W 118 Grammar he won the B ®“2? r „ j eld championship in 1924 and 1920, the 100yds Waikato Challenge and tho y bld Boys’ Cup for the quarter mile. His speed made Jnmaialuable unit in the school senior Rugby fifteen and he was also a keen tennis player and an enthusiastic swimmer. > ?jtcied the Auckland University m 1926 and completed his B.A. course last year. He won a senior scholarship in . Fre ? ch, v ®'” d at the present time is reading for honours in modern languages. Since enter ing the University Mr. Minns has been a member of the senior Rugby flfteen and has also played regularly with the Auc land representative side. He played the North Island against the South at Wellington in September last and scored the last try of the match. He is chairman of tho college athletic club and a prominent member of the Students Association.