PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 16 July 1930, Page 8

PERSONAL

A Press Association message from ■ Christchurch reports, the death in London of Mr. J. F. Studholme, aged 64, a brother of Colonel Studholme.

Sympathy with, the relatives of .Mr. G. A. Adlam, an ex-member of the board, was expressed at the meeting of the Taranaki Hospital Board yestei’day.. A Fremantle message says that Sir Otto Niemeyer, the noted financial authority, who was invited to Australia hy the Federal Ministry, arrived by the liner Cathay from London.

Word has been received by the Rev. Clarence Eaton that the Rev. A. N. Scotter, president of the Methodist Conference, will pay a visit to New Plymouth about the. middle of August. Messrs. R. J. Monson (Palmerson North). J. C. Allcly. A. K. Jackson (Auckland), F. H. Woodward, A;. W. McGregor and R. Brownlie (Wellington), and Mr. and Mrs. W. Jeffrej r (Dunedin), are amongst the guests at the Criterion Hotel; New Plymouth.

The Right Rev. F. A. Bennett, Bishop of Aotearoa, is well on the road to recovery from his two serious operations. On leaving King George V. Hospital at / Rotorua he will go to Wellington to catch the boat for Rarotonga, where, he will take a complete rest.

The New Plymouth Methodist Circuit quarterly meeting was informed yesterday by the stewards, Messrs. C. Carter and L. M. Moss, that it was the desire of the churches that the Rev. C. Eaton remain nt Whiteley for the third year, and the Rev. R. B, Gosnell at Fitzroy for the fourth year.

The deatlr*of Mr. William Lilly' Eiigland, aged 88 years, has occurred at the’ residence of his son-in-law, Mr. S. W. Entrican, Auckland. Mr. England-came to New Zealand from England as a young man and -was in business as a storekeeper at Norman by, Taranaki, for some years. lie later moved to Westport and Hastings, where he was engaged in business as a grain merchant. Mr. England was a staunch supportej’ of the Presbyterian Church. He is survived by four daughters and three sons'.

A record, probably unparalleled in l the history of the Dominion, was created last week with the retirement of Mr. C. E. Fowke from the service of > the Railway Department, after having been in its employ for 40 years. His father, Mr. Tom Fowke, who completed 41 years in the department’s employ in 1906, is. still alive and in- the best of health. Mr. Tom Fowke was a railway man in Canterbury in J 865, when the whole of the New Zealand railways ineastired four miles and a half in length. He was guard on the first express train to run from Christchurch to Dunedin, well over 50 years ago.