PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 11 December 1930, Page 8

PERSONAL

' Mr. H. G. Dyer, 8.A., Hutt ; Valley Hi "h School, has accepted a position on the staff of- Huntingtower School, Malvern, Melbourne, reports the Press Association. Mr. Dyer was formerly at the New Plymouth Boys’ High .School.

Mr. Frank R. Ray, town clerk tb the Patea ; Borough- Council, has been appointed town , clerk of Cambridge. There were 60 applications for' the position from all parts of the Dominion.

Among the passengers on the Otranto, which arrived at Fremantle on Tuesday from London, is Miss Gladys Watkins, who has been abroad studying carillon playing. Guests at the Imperial, New Plymouth, are Mr. B. M. Gibson, Palmerston North, Mr. C. Moar, Wellington, Mr. ■J. Batchelor,-Palmerston North, Mr. W. lyierney, Palmerston North, and Mr. J. Poole, Auckland.

Mr R. E. Herron, manager of the Wellington municipal milk supply, was a visitor to New Plymouth on Tuesday. He Iteft again -yesterday on his return to Wellington.

A London cablegram reports the death of Mr. Bart Kennedy, aged 69 ygars. As a boy he worked in Manchester cotton mills, went to sea, tranipyd the United States and visited Klondyke before the rush, drifted into writing and published many novels.

The Acting-Prime Minister, Mr. E. A. Ransom, was to have returned to Wellington on Tuesday, but on reaching Palmerston North he -received advice of the deatli of Mrs. Ransom’s niother, and it became necessary for him to return to Dannevirke. Mr. Ransom will probably return to Wellington to-day.

Guests at the Criterion, New Plymouth, include Messrs. J. L. Cameron, J. M. Hyams, Rae (Au'-kland), E. Reemes (Hamilton), T. D. Johnson (London), G. McMilne Murphy (Christchurch), F. M. Sherwood, John Farrell (/uckland) and G. Peacock (Welling-, ton). Mr. John O’Shea, Wellington city solicitor, who is an ex-pupil and former “dux” of the Otago Boys’ High School, left for Dunedin last night, states a Press Association telegram, to present the prizes at the school’s annual “breakup” and also to unveil a memorial to his old Latin master, the late Mungo Watson.