PERSONAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16448, 2 June 1919, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M., Auckland, is to temporarily replace Mr. A. Crooke, S.MV, who is still indisposed. Mr. Poynton will probably arrive in New Plymouth to-morrow. A Wellington telegram reports the death of Mr. Edward Anderson, a wellknown Wellington merchant, aged' 76. He leaves a widow, four sons, and one daughter. One of his sisters is Mrs. John Ballance, widow of the late Premier of New Zealand. —Press Assn. Messrs. A, J. Giddy (Bell Block), A. Street (Tarurutangi), E. C. Stanley (Hillsborough), and C. M. Gray (New Plymouth) loft on Saturday night on an” extended motor tour. Their intention is to visit the thermal region in and around Rotorua, a call being made at Auckland for the second and third day’s racing. The party will be driven by' Mr. Gun Ben in one of the Buick 'taxi garage’s up-to-date cars.

The death took place on Sunday in Christchurch of Mr. T. W. Adams, ona of the foremost educationists in Canterbury and one of the leading laymen in the'Methodist Church of New Zealand, aged 77. «He came to New Zealand in 1862, and settled at Grcendalo in 1892. He was elected a. member of the Education Board, being chairman in 1897 and 1904. and was also elected a member of the Board of Governors of Canterbury College in 1896. He made a life work of collecting trees and shrubs from every temperate clime, and bad a collection of over 700 different species.

The funeral of the late Mr. Sidney Hodges took place at the Te Henui Cemetery on Sunday afternoon, and was very largely attended. _ The deceased who had been a prominent member of the Citizens’ Band and was a returned soldier was accorded a bandsman’s funeral, whilst representatives of the returned soldiers acted as bearers. On the way to the cemetery the_ band played Handel’s dead - march in “Saul” and Chopin’s “Funeral March.” and as the coffin was lowered into the grave “Lead Kindly Light.” The service was conducted by the Rev. F, G Harvio, and was of a most impressing character throughout. At ‘ the conclusion bandsman Taylor played the “Last Post” to the accompaniment of the roll of drums.