PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 2 May 1935, Page 4

PERSONAL

The Rev. F. O. Dawson, Hamilton, has been appointed vicar of Pio Pio. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Robb have returned to New Plymouth from Nelson, where they spent a month’s holiday. Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary for India, is now convalescent after a severe attack of influenza and congestion of the lungs, says a British Official Wireless message.

Sir James Grose, general manager of the National Bank of New Zealand, intends to leave Sydney on May 9 for Wellington. He has been spending some weeks in Australia.

Mr. J. Morris Scobie, of Canterbury University College, has been appointed to the staff of the Seddon Memorial Technical College, Auckland. He will leave Christchurch about the middle of May to take up his duties. The death of Mr. George Fallon, Paeroa, occurred on Monday at the age of 68 years. Mr. Fallon was bom at Waipipi and lived in the Hawke’s Bay and Taranaki districts until 46 years ago, when he established a business in Karangahake. He is survived by his wife and one son,, Mr. J. Fallon, and one daughter, Mrs. W. P. Pennell, Paeroa. The retirement from the army of Brigadier Sir Richard Howard Vyse, C.M.G., D. 5.0., has been gazetted, states a London cable. Sir Howard Vyse served with the Royal Horse Guards and the Canadian and Australian forces in the course of a long and distinguished military career. He entered the army in 1902 and earned quick promotion. In the Palestine campaign he earned an enviable reputation and was well remembered by Australians and New Zealanders when he toured recently as chief-of-staff to the Duke of Gloucester.