PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 5 July 1932, Page 6

PERSONAL

Messrs. N. A. Black (Dunedin) and H. R. Gunn (Auckland) were at the weekly luncheon of the New Ply mouth Rotary Club yesterday. A resolution of condolence with Mr. W. H." Broome, a former Rotarian, in the death of his daughter was passed at the weekly luncheon of the New PJy mouth Rotary Club yesterday. A vote of sympathy with th© Mr H V. S. GriJSihs, IP death of to * S Coppen was passed by Tlym i h borough Council last night. Th© Taranaki County J, 8. Connett) and On 8- Vickers tributes to Mr. Laurences north as a councillor and a man. / Th© Rev. P. Wiltshire, who has been curate of All Saints’ parish, Palmerton North, for the past 5i years, has (been offered and has accepted tM Charge Of the parish of Pongaroa and Mangataiuoka. Prior Palmerston North, Mr. at Stratford. He will be leaving for his new charge on July Io and mil reside at Pongaroa. Mrs. O. Stephens, daughter of Mrs. W. N. Ewing, New Plymouth, who was. injured iii a collision between a car by her husband and a tramcar at New Plymouth on Saturday, was reported last night to be progressing v ?hrably. She was stiff very ill, it was stated, but not seriously. Mr. Stephens and their son Geoffrey, aged 6, were progress and would soon be about a o ain. Mrs. Stephens is at a private hospital. While en route to Wanganui on Saturday, in company with Rotarians lx, Rome and H. Daily, Mrs, Home became suddenly ill, and the journey had to be abandoned by Dr. and Mrs. Home at Stratford. Mrs. Home was compelled to remain at Stratford for the week-end. Sympathy with Dr. Home in the illness of his wife was expressed at the weekly luncheon of the New Plymouth Rotary Club yesterday. Dr. Home was the only absentee from the luncheon. Mr. M. C. Walbran, who has been on the staff of the National Bank of New Zealand, New Plymouth, for nearly five years, has received notice of his transfer to the Newmarket branch and will leave probably at the end of the week. Mr, Walbran has been a playing member of the Albion Football Club, of winch he was captain last year. He is chairman of the northern division of the Taranaki Football Association.

Fifty-one years in Holy Orders, forty of which hava been spent as vicar of th© parish of Addington, Christchurch, is the record of Canon W, 8. Bean, .Th© length of his period as vicar qt Addington constitutes a record for the .Canterbury Diocese. Canon Bean, who is to retire at the end of this year, was ordained at St. Michael’s by Bishop Harper on September 25, 18fil, and. was ordained a priest at Christchurch Cathedral in 1883, also by Bishop Harper. For two years ho was a curate under Dean Harper, and was then appointed vicar at Sheffield, Springfield and Hororata, where he remained until 1888. He moved next to Kumara, and was vicar of that district and of Waimea and Stafford until 1892. While at Kumara he married the eldest daughter of Mr. H, J. Seddon, afterwards Premier of New Zealand. The vicarage at Addington when ho and his wife arrived there in 1892 is the same building that is used today. In wartime Canon Bean wag chaplain to the Expeditionary Force in Samoa. He is at present president of the Royal Humane Society.