PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1935, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr. H. Stonex, Russell, formerly a resident of the Bell Block district, is spending a holiday at New Plymouth. The death of Brigadier-General John LamrOck, until recently secretary of the Moorfield Race Club, is reported by cable from Sydney. Mr. F. W. Short, chief inspector of the stock division of the Department of Agriculture for the Wellington district, is visiting New Plymouth. Mr. Owen Davies, who has been a prominent member of the New Plymouth Salvation Army Corps and a member of Toe H., will leave New Plymouth on Monday for Christchurch, where he is to go into business. Mr. T. Taylor,. who has been headmaster of the Normanby school for some years, will leave shortly for Hawkes Bay, having accepted a transfer id the Takapau school. x Mr. H. C.’Couch, district traffic manager of railways at Wanganui, will leave to-day to take up similar duties at Auckland, in succession to Mr. G. T. Wilson, traffic superintendent at Wellington. ■fhe death of Mr. Robert Daniel Kelly, at one time chief postmaster at Wellington and Auckland, is reported in a Napier Press Association message. The death of Mr. R. M. Gordon occurred suddenly at Wellington yesterday, states the Press Association. He was formerly of the Eastern Extension Cable Company. Miss A. Pattrick, for 14 years until last September director of Plunket nursing for New Zealand, will leave next week for Canada at the invitation of the child welfare authorities of Montreal, to confer with them bn matters affecting the welfare of mothers and babies, says a Wellington Press Association message. I The funeral of the late Mr. G. B. Kyngdon took place at Te Henui cemetery, New Plymouth, yesterday and was largely attended. The service was taken by the Rev. G. W. G. Griffin, vicar of Holy Trinity, Fitzroy. The bearers were Messrs. L. A. Nolan, P. Hopkins, T. C. Fookes, A. Bewley, A. Ambury and A. Binnie. Expressions of sympathy with Mr. Kyngdon’s relatives have been received from a wide circle of friends.