PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1930, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr. Zohrab, London, is a guest at the White Hart Hotel, New Plymouth.

Mr. E. V. Miller, Thames, who has been visiting New Plymouth during the past -few days, left for Wellington yesterday.

Mr. J. S. Connett,' chairman of the Taranaki council, who has been visiting Auckland and Rotorua, will return to New Plymouth this evening. Professor P. G. Hornell and Mr, P. W. Werner, who have been staying at the Criterion, New. Plymouth, left last night for Wanganui.

A Christchurch message reports the death of Mr. Archibald Binnie, aged 70, a prominent figure-in the teaching profession in Canterbury until his retirement in 1912.

Guests at the Criterion, New Plymouth, include Mr. and Mrs. H. Mawley, Mr. Beard ''(Masterton), Mr. and Mrs. W. Gimson (Auckland), Mr. E. W. A Kellow, Mr. A. Eaton Hurley and Mr. R. T. R. Richards (Wellington).

x Au Auckland message reports that the Rev. Brother Borgia, formerly director of Sacred Heart College, Auckland, has been appointed Provincial of the Marist Order in South Africa. He leaves New Zealand next month and takes up Ins new appointment in January.

A London cable reports the death of Captain A. C. B. Critchley-Waring at (he age of 44. He was brigade major and infantry instructor to the New Zealand Forces from 1911 to 1914. He was adj'utant to the Canterbury Infantry Battalion and was with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force from its formation till August, 1915. He served in the Suez Canal engagement and at Gallipoli, He was attached to th/ Egyptian in 1916 and served in the Sudan engagements.

The death occurred' at Pahiatua on Monday of Mr. James D. Ramsden, a gon of' two’ old Taranaki pioneers. His father, Mr. James Ramsden, arrived at New Plymouth in the Blenheim in 1842 and his mother, then Miss Elizabeth Nairn, in the Amelia Thompson. Mr. James Ramsden, sen., was drowned in the early ’fifties when fording the Patea River oh the bld. mail track near the river mouth. Mr. Ramsden had been a resident of Kumeroa for 22 - years. He was at one time a, councillor of the Woodville County Council, and besides being a member of the Dannevirke -^ os ~ pital Board was also on the board oi trustees of the Waipawa hospital.