PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 11 March 1933, Page 4

PERSONAL

The Hon. J. B. Gow, M.L.C., arriyed at New Plymouth from Hamilton yesterday and is the guest of Mr. J. C. Irving, Carrington Road. Mr. S. Irwin Crookes is visiting New Plymouth and is staying at the Criterion Hotel.

Dr. J. C. Mclntyre and Messrs. A. C. Mclntyre, H. P. Bridge and E. E. Nutt, Christchurch, are staying at the Criterion Hotel, New Plymouth.

Mr. Justice Frazer and Messrs. W. Cecil Prime and A. L. Monteath arrived at New Plymouth yesterday from Hamilton in order to hold a sitting of the Arbitration Court on Monday. The Opunake Power Board yesterday expressed sympathy with Ml. W. C. Green, a member of the board, in his bereavement through the death of his sister, Mrs. Membery. Mr. G. Loveridge, postmaster at Uienui, has been transferred to the telegraph staff at New Plymouth, of which he was a member some years ago. His place at Urenui will be taken by Mr. D. J. McCorkindale, of the telegraph staff at Waitara.

The Rev. W. A. Sinclair, formerly of New Plymouth, who recently retired from the position of foreign missions’ secretary to the Methodist Church of New Zealand, sailed from Wellington yesterday by the Rotorua on a visit to England, He was accompanied by Mrs. Sinclair.

The Rev. R. B. Gosnell, Fitzroy, who has been transferred to. the -charge' of the Methodist Church at Hastings, will leave New Plymouth during the first week in April. Mr. Gosnell is chairman of the Taranaki Hospital Board and has taken a prominent part in charitable aid relief activities in the town for a number of years. Mr. W. H. Skinner, New Plymouth, has been presented by the First Battalion, Wellington Regiment, with a silver ash-tray upon which the regimental badge is mounted in gold. The gift is intended as a memento of Mr. Skinner’s services in collecting information concerning the New Zealand history of the 65th Regiment, with which the battalion is allied.

The death occurred at Napier on Wednesday of Mr. Francis Logan, aged 77, a well-known barrister and solicitor. The late Mr, Logan was horn in Edinburgh and articled at Newcastle-on-Tyne. He was admitted as a solicitor in England in ’ 1880, and he came to New Zealand two years after. Afterwards he settled at Napier, where he has practised ever since. In the ’eighties he represented Hawke’s Bay at cricket against an Australian eleven, and about 30 years ago he won the New Zealand tennis doubles in conjunction with Minden Fenwicke. He was chancellor for the Anglican diocese of Waiapu for 20 years.