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Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16796, 21 July 1920, Page 2

PERSONAL

Mr. E. P. Webster continues to make’ good progress towards recovery. The Rev. J. Napier Milne intends visiting Fiji for a short vacation, ano will leave 'New Plymouth early next month to catch the Tahiti at Auckland. Captain Bark, of the Rarawa, who has been in hospital at New Plymouth for several weeks, left by the Rimu on Tuesday afternoon to return to Auckland.

-A London cable says that the King and Queen apd many Royalties attended the ex-Empress Eugenie’s funeral at Famborough. Prince Victor Napoleon and Princess Clementine were the principal mourners. Mrs. C. H. Burgess and Mrs. G> S. Millar are at present in Wellington attending the sixth general conference of the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Cliildren, which opened there on Tuesday. A cable from ■ Vancouver reports the death ,at Sidney, British Columbia, of Mr. John Maocwm, who was the botanist with the Canadian Pacific Railway exploration survey, under Mr. Snaford Fleming, the originator of the Pacific cable.

At a meeting of .the New Plymouth Savings Bank Trustees tills morning Mr. G. E. Dinniss was selected out of 25 applications to fill the, vacancy caused by Mr. P. C. Morton’s resignation. Mr. Dinniss recently resigned from the Post Office staff after 23 years’ service, 15 of which were ’spent m the Savings Bank Department. A Christchurch telegram says the Press states on good authority that Mr., R. AV. Holmes, Engineer-in-Chief of’ the Public AVorks Department, has resigned and consequently his early retirement will mean tho complete reorganisation of the staff of the department, which, is now in the process of arrangement.