PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 16 January 1931, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr. L. M. Moss, who spent fhe holidays at Taupo,- has returned to New Plymouth,

A vote of condolence with the relatives of the late Mr. T. Geary, Mere Mere, an old member of the Hawera Rifle Club and the Taranaki Rifle Association, was passed at a meeting of the association last night. The executive of the Westown Progressive Association last night expressed sympathy with Mr. W. A. Brown, schoolmaster at Westown, and a member of the executive, because of the death of his mother.

A London cable states that Sir Arthur Duckham has been nominated deputypresident of the Federation of British Industries by tfie grand council, with a view to succeeding Sir James Lithgow as president L 1932. Guests at the Hotel Imperial, New Plymouth, include Messrs. C. Grant (Christchurch), C. W. Toplin (Palmerston North), J. C. Christie (Ngaruawahia)j Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Hales (Wimbledon).

Mr. Godfrey Haise, who has been manager of the Whangarei office of the Australian Mutual Provident Society for a number of year's, has received notification of his promotion to the managership of the Palmerston North office. He will be succeeded by Mr. V. Cirse, of the Wellington office. Guests at the Criterion, New Plymouth, include Mr. and Mrs. M, A. Eliott (Palmerston North), Mr. and Mrs. H. Ware (Palmerston North), Mr. and Mrs. L, T. Hughes (Brisbane), Mr. W. Gamp (Wellington), Mr, D. McDonald (Auckland), Mr. A. McDonald (Ashburton), and Mr. Heath (Auckland). Professor John Bell Condlifie, M.A., D.Sc., research secretary to the Institute of Pacific Relations since 1926, and a former professor of Economics at Canterbury College, has accepted a 10 years contract to write an annual survey of economic affairs for the economic and financial section of the League of Nations. Professor Condlifie has resigned th? secretaryship of the Institute of Pacific Relations.

Mr. R. J. McGill has been awarded the senior scholarship in medicine,. and Mr> N. L. Edson the medjcal travelling scholarship by the New Zealand Unversity Senate. Both are students of Otago Unversity. . ’

The death of Captain W. C. Bacon, chairman of the Manchester Ship Canal Company, oceurrred in England on Tuesday, according to advice received by Captain W. J. Wade, Australian aud New Zealand representative of the company, who js visiting Auckland. Captain Bacon had been chairman of the company for the past 18 years. “He had a very romantic life,” said Captain Wade, “rising from a plain seafaring man to the chairmanship of a company with a capital of over £20,000,000.