PERSONAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16447, 28 May 1919, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Air. J. S. Connett was a passenger bythe Rarawa on. Tuesday night for Auckland.

Air. J. J. Corry, Mayor of Blenheim, and Aliss Corry are saying at the While Hart.-

A AA’asuington,cablegram says that it is expected Air. Lloyd George will visit the United States in October to attend the opening of the League of Nations.

, Mr. A. H. Johnstone has been appointed a member of the High School Board to fill the vacancy caused, by the resignation of Mr. D. Hutchen. At the annual meeting of the Citizens’ Band on Tuesday evening the President, Mr. W. J. Penn, apologised for the absence of Mr. E. Sole, chairman of committee. Mr, Penn explained that Mr. Solo was recovering from a serious illness, and that therefore it was not wise for him to-be out on such a cold night. It was a very great regret to Mr. Sole, who had been called the “father” of the hand', that he could not bo present at tbe meeting. Mr. Ernest El Gillon, who for the past four years has been locomotive en-gineer-in-chief of the mechancial engineer’s office o*l the Railway Department, lias been appointed chief mechanical engineer-in succession to Mr. H. H. Jackson, who recently retired from the service. Mr. Gillon, who is the eldest son of the late E. T. Gillon, for many years editor of the Wellington Evening Post, was Horn in Dunedin, and joined the Railway Department in 1884' as an apprentice in the Hillside workshops. Since then he has served the Railway Department in various capacities at Kaihu, Wlmngarei, Westport, Dunedin, Addington, and, lastly, in the head office at'Wellington.