PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 18 April 1932, Page 6

PERSONAL

Captain Hewett called at the New Plymouth aerodrome on Saturday during his flight from Wellington to Auckland.

Flying-Officer I. Keith will leave New Plymouth by car for Hawera to-day. At the end of the week he will go on to Wanganui.

Mr. A. Mumford, Dunedin, general manager of the National Insurance Company, accompanied by Mrs. Mumford, is visiting New Plymouth. They are staying at the Criterion Hotel. Mr. C. Haines, of the New Plymouth staff of the Fields Division of ’the Agricultural Department, who has been in Hawke’s Bay for the past four months on rye certification work, returned to New Plymouth on Saturday evening. The death occurred in a private hospital on Saturday night at the age of 82 of the Rev. Dr. Waddell, a well known writer and for many years minister at St. Andrew’s Church, Dunedin, states a Dunedin Press Association message. Mr. and Mrs. A. R. White', New Plymouth, leave this morning for Wellington and Dunedin, where they will spend a few days before proceeding to Samoa. General and Mrs. Higgins, the Salvation Army leaders, arrived at Hamilton on Friday evening, and were tendered a civic reception before a large gathering.

A Gazette issued in Wellington on Friday announced that Mr. John George Lewis Hewitt, stipendiary magistrate, Marton, had been appointed a member of the . Government Railways Appeal Board and chairman of the board.

Mr. L. Ashcroft Edwards, president of the U.K. Manufacturers’ Association, arrived at New Plymouth from Wellington on -Saturday and is staying at the Imperial Hotel. The object of Mr. Edwards’ visit is to obtain from importers of United Kingdom goods their views on the alteration of Customs duties in view of the approaching Ottawa conference. Mr. Edwards’ association is preparing a case for presentation to the New Zealand Government.

The death occurred suddenly at Wellington during the week-end of Mr. J. H. C. Bond, Dominion superintendent of the New Zealand Shipping Company, according to private advice received in New Plymouth yesterday. Mr. Bond was at one time general traffic manager for the Union Company. From that position he became branch manager of the New Zealand Shipping Company at Auckland, and was later promoted to Dominion superintendent.

The death occurred at the New Plymouth hospital last night of Mr. A. L. Squire, ■ for the past 12 years a valued servant of the Taranaki Education Board as foreman-carpenter. Mr. Squire was an instructor at Stoke Orphanage school, Nelson, before taking up his New Plymouth appointment. About two months ago he met with a motor accident necessitating hospital treatment for shoulder injury. Other complications supervened and ultimately caused his death. He leaves a widow, one daughter and four sons.

The sudden death, at the age of 72, was reported on Friday of the Rev. A. Bruce Todd, 8.A., a widely-esteemed and prominent figure in the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand for the past 44 years. During recent years he had been in charge of the Karori Presbyterian Church. Born at Oamaru in 1860, Mr. Todd was the son of the late Rev. A. Bruce Todd, who was a very wellknown Presbyterian minister in the Oamaru district. He received his education at the Otago Boys’ High School and the Otago University, and was first appointed a minister at Macrae’s, Otago, in 1886. Later, he was moved to Geraldine, where he laboured until about 1920, when he went to Petone. After serving there for some time, he resigned the charge and was appointed secretary of the Home Missions Committee of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, a position which he filled until his retirement in September, 1925. Mr. Todd was for forty years identified with the committee of the Aged and Infirm Ministers’ Fund and Widows and Orphans’ Fund of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, and was convener of that committee for thirty years. He leaves a widow and one daughter, Mrs. Inglis, of Timaru,