PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 30 January 1930, Page 10

PERSONAL

Canon Gillespie will.leave New Plymouth to-day to.take'his new appointment at Morrinsville. ' ■ ■ Mr. L. F. Burnard, of Devons ire, ar-' rived by the Maunganui at Auckland on Tuesday, and will spend three month# in New Zealand. He has come for 06 fishing at Rotorua and Taupo, yhcre h 6 - eh joyed a holiday two years ago. ’ , r Mr. F, E. Beamish yesterday morning \ commenced his duties as- chief ppstipast;'-ter-at New Plymouth. Mr. Beamish, whb,, has been assistant postmaster at .i land, was some years ago accountant 5a - the money order department at New Ply*, mouth.

Dr. and Mrs. M. D. Silderberg, of Melbourne, arrived by "the Maunganui at Auckland on Tuesday. Dr. Silderberg will attend the Medical Congress at’ Christchurch next month, and they will tour both islands before returning to' Australia. ’ .

The King has approved the ment of Mr. Joseph Addison, Envoy Extraordinary and. Minister Plenipotentiary at Riga, Reval and Kovno, to lie Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni*. potentiary at Prague, says a British, wireless message. ? Lord Byng of Vimy, Commissioner of the London Police, leaves London to-nwr-,-row for South Africa to recuperate freri hjs illness, says a British wireless mes-. sage. He will be accompanied by Lady Byng. They will spend the first fortnight in South Africa as the guests of • Sir Abe Bailey of Muizenberg, and part of March at Government House in Cape Town with Lord Athlone. f

The death occurred at Christchurch yes- .- terday of the Rev. William Train Todd,, aged 67, a retired Presbyterian Minister,' states a Press Association message. Mr. Todd collapsed on the foot-path in Papanui Road while waiting for a tram and died almost immediately.. Mr. Todd had been in hie usual health recently. He was' born at Oamaru, a son of the Rev. A. B. Todd, and' entered the ministry of the Presbyterian Church in .1907, retiring in 1928. The death of Mr. James Gummell Allan, aged 86, formerly a well-known farmer in Taranaki, occurred on Tuesday at the residence of his daughter, ■ Mrs. C. Lowe, of Otahuhu. Mr. Allan . was born at Glasgow, Scotland, being a , son of the senior partner of the firm of ■Messrs. Allan and Allan, shipping mer- i chants. At the age of 18 he landed in Dunedin and made his way overland to Nelson.' He Joined the New. Zealand ; Militia and served'in the. Maori Wars, principally in the Taranaki district. - He married a daughter of Mr. W. Cairns, of ■ Wanganui, and settled in Taranaki. Mr. Allan was predeceased by his wife 5 in- , October, 1929, after 08 years, of'married. : life. - There were 15 children of the marriage, of whom 13; arc still. Jiving.'