PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 21 December 1929, Page 8

PERSONAL

Mr. and Mrs. R. McManus, Huntly, are visiting New Plymouth. Mr. J. C. Maxwell, New Plymouth, has returned from the South Island. Captain F. S. Varnham, M.C., of the First Battalion of the Taranaki Regiment, has been promoted to the rank of major. Mr. S. A. Gibson, Wellington, previously of the Public Trust Office, New Plymouth, has been successful in the final law professional examination entitling him to admission as a solicitor. Commandant Calcott, who . has commanded the Eltham Salvation Army Corps for the past two years; has received notice of his appointment to Blenheim, and leaves Eltham early in January. Dr. L. Randell, who for some time has I en a house surgeon at the New Plymouth hospital, leaves to-day for Stratford, where he will act as locum tenena for a short time prior to going to South Taranaki and Tauranga in a similar capacity. Dr. G. H. Thomson, New Plymouth, has received advice of his promotion from the rank of lieutenant to that of captain in the New Zealand Medical Corps. Sergeants A. L. Kidson and H. J. Thomas have been promoted to the rank of second lieutenant. The Rev. F. G. Harvie, vicar of St; Augustine’s, Stanley Bay, has been appointed vicar of St. Barnabas’, Mount Eden, in succession to the Rev. E. E. Bamford, who has been appointed to a position as tutor at St. John’s College. Mr. Harvie will take up his new duties about the end of February. Mr. C. P. Hainsworth, who was in charge of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition in Dunedin, and who is general manager of the Newcastle Exhibition, intends (says a London correspondent, waiting on November 7) to return to New Zealand, where he owns & fruit farm. The affairs of the Newcastle Exhibition will be wound up. about the end of January, after which Mr. Hainsworth will be free to set sail for the country of his adoption. Mrs. Harriet Sophia Cobb, who died at the age of 84 at the residence of her daughter at Otahuhu on Wednesday, came to the Dominion with her husband and family by the ship Lady Joc.lyn on January l r 1884. Mr. and Mrs. Cobb lived in Hawke’s Bay until 1911, when, after the death of her husband, Mrs. Cobb went to Palmerston North. Later Mrs. Cobb spent several years in New Plymouth, where she was a prominent worker in the Salvation Army. C. Cobb (New Plymouth) is one of the seven surviving members of a family of IL