PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 3 May 1933, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr. F. W. G. McLeod, of New Plymouth,' adjudicator at the Queensland band and solo championships, returned to New Zealand by the Monowai. The estate of the late Mr. A. Dillion Bell, Shag Valley, was sworn at £60,000. The public bequests are confined to Otago and total £225.

Mr. J. G. Jacobs, managing director of the Atlantic Union Oil Company for Australia and New Zealand, is staying at the Criterion Hotel, New Plymouth.

The death of Mr. W. B. McEwan, Dunedin, city librarian, aged 63, was reported in a Press Association message from Dunedin yesterday. Death followed a sudden illness and an operation. Mr. F. S. Hodson, for eight years bacteriologist at the New Plymouth hospital, will leave on Mayi 16 to join the Rangitikei Plains Dairy! Company at Edgecumbe, near Whakatane.

The Rev. R. S. C. Fussell, who is attached to the clergy staff of St Peter’s Cathedral, Hamilton, will leave at the end of May to take up work in the Whangamomona parochial district, Taranaki East

Constable W. Butler, who has received notice of his transfer to Tokaanu, will leave New Plymouth to-day. Constable Johnson, Tokaanu, is transferred to Whangamomona and Constable Coulbume is transferred from Whangamomona to Dannevirke.

Mr. J. P. Luke, Wellington, vice-presi-dent of the Associated Chambers of Commerce, and Mr. A. O. Heany, organising secretary, attended the monthly meeting of the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce last night. They will leave New Plymouth this morning for Te Awamutu and Auckland. Reference was made at the meeting of the Inglewood County Council yesterday to the death of Mr. Peter Hunter, who was one of the pioneer settlers of the Norfolk Road district, where he took up land 50 years ago. Sympathy with Cr. J. Hunter, a brother, was expressed by resolution. The change that has taken place in the nationality of ship’s crews is exemplified by the compliment of the oversea vessel Mahia, at present at New Plymouth. All of the 80 men aboard are of British descent, although their birthplaces are far apart at places such as London, Newfoundland, Adelaide, South Africa, Thursday Island and Skye. Before the war foreign and Lascar labour was relied on to a greater extent, in the mercantile marine, the officers alone being British, but later cargo vessels have been manned more and more by British sailors, of whom there are large numbers out of work.

Mr. H. Neal, sales manager and director of Messrs. Lewis Berger and Sons (N.Z.) Ltd., who has just returned from a trip to the Old Country, said to a Wellington Press representative: “It is difficult for a New Zealander to realise how severe a blow to our goodwill was the result of the New Zealand Government’s experiment in inflation. While the exchange was more or less the result of supply and demand the sympathy of all British trading classes was for New Zealand in her difficulties, but the attitude of the Government in arbitrarily increasing the exchange by 25 per cent, has alienated whole sections of the British commercial world and must influence Britain’s future actions toward us. The pegging of the exchange occurred at a most inopportune moment. The Danish trade agreement was being negotiated and other agreements—Argentine, Russian, etc—were being reviewed and we shall only know in the course of years how expensive that Government action has been for New Zealand.”