PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 4 August 1934, Page 6

PERSONAL

Messrs. E. R. C. Gilmour, P. E. Stainton, F. T. Bellringer and C. Clarke, New Plymouth, returned from Wellington last night.

Congratulations on having reached his 88th year were extended to Mr. J. W. Foreman by the Taranaki Agricultural Society yesterday.

Sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr. Aaron Marsh was expressed by the general committee of the Taranaki Agricultural Society yesterday. The Duke of Gloucester, who is to tour Australia and New Zealand shortly, has been promoted to the' rank of major, states a London cable.

Mr. M. Fahy, Waitara, who has been in a private hospital at New Plymouth for three or four weeks, has made a good recovery and returned home yesterday.

A congregational meeting of the Kelbum Presbyterian Church decided to extend a call to the Rev. J. S. Murray, M.A., Queenstown, says a Wellington Press Association message.

Mr. A. M. Thomson has arrived at New Plymouth from Wellington to become manager of the Bank of New Zealand in succession to Mr. A. D. Keeling, who will retire at the end of the month. Mr. Thomson was manager at the North End branch of the bank.

Mr. J. B. Johnston, eldest son of Mr. J. H. Johnston, New Plymouth, district inspector of machinery, was successful in obtaining his first-class certificate as a marine engineer at the recent examinations conducted by the Board of Trade in London. He was subsequently appointed to the position of fourth engineer of the New Zealand Shipping Company’s ship Rotorua.

The loss sustained by the death of the late Mr. Thos. Taylor, a member of the first board of directors, an ex-chairman and one of the most loyal supporters of the company, was referred to in the report presented to the annual meeting of suppliers of the Ohura Valley Dairy Company on Thursday. The chairman remarked on his thorough and conscientious work, which had caused him to be known as “honest Tom. Shareholdeis stood for a minute in silence as a mark of respect.

Dorn Moreno, who has been a hospital patient for the past month, has been advised for health reasons to leave New Zealand, and is to return to Australia next Monday by the Aorangi. He arrived in New Zealand a few months ago to conduct and instruct massed Catholic choirs. In the past few weeks ho has been in the habit of leaving his sick bed to conduct choirs, returning immediately afterwards. One of his works was sung and played at the Eucharistic Congress at Sydney.