PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2648, 20 December 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Dr. Fitchett, C.M.G., Public Trustee, leaves to-day for Australia on mental business. Ho is accompanied by Mrs. Fitchett and son.

Mr Paul Mickle, headmaster of - tha Hamua School, who is leaving shortly, for Manakau, was on Thursday afternoon presented by tho scholars with a' case of silver-mounted ebony hair brushes.

News has been received in Gisborna of the death at Adelaide of* Major P.M. Blair, brother of Mr. D. Blair, of Gisborne. Major Blair went through the Boer War, serving 18 months as one of the lieutenants in the First South Australian Contingent, gaining his captaincy. Since the outbreak of the present \var ho had been acting as Gov* ernment military censor at Adelaide.At the Petone Bowling pavilion on Saturday afternoon, Mr. H. Cate, who has acted as secretary to the local club for five years, and is shortly to leave Petone, to take up the position of postmaster Dunedin, was presented with an" afternoon tea sorvice and a set of carvers. '■ The president (Mr. J. Castle), in making the presentation on behalf of the club, paid a tribute to tho valuable work Mr. Cate had done for the club as secretary, and wished him success in bis new duties. Mr. A. E. Naughton is now acting-secretary to tha club. ' ,• , Dr. E. W. Sharmari, of 'Auckland, gone into camp at Trentham. Mr. W. Morrison, manager of tha To Awamutu branch of the Bank of New Zealand, has been promoted to' the position of manager of the Wbakatnna branch. He will be succeeded by Mr. L. Hewitt, manager at Opotiki. Mrs. J. F. Adams, of Moleswortli Street, heard from her son, Private Herbert Adams, by last mail. He has been in the trenches since the beginning of October, and says that he is in splendid health, and lias fixed up his dug-out so that it is quite a "Grand Hotel" in Its way. • Two of his brothers are also at the front,' and in good health. Mr. J. Lazarus was a passenger fromi Hobart to Wellington bv.the Corinthio, which arrived here at noon yesterday. Sir. Joseph North, a New Zealand actor, who left Australia' with the Nance O'Neil Company in 1902. arrived back here yesterday by the Corinthic, on a visit to his relatives, vAo re'sida in Christchurch. The Rev. G. Weeks, Mrs. Weekis, and family were passengers from England for. Nelson by the Corinthic, whicb arrived in port at midday yesterday. The death occurred at> his residence, Romuora, Auckland, on Wednesday last of Mr. Wm. F. Crawford, formerly! a well-known identity in Gisborne, a. member of its first Borough Council and its Mayor in 1877. The deceased, who was 75 years of age, was a native of Tipperary, and came to New Zealand in the ship Statesman ,in 1864. Mr.Crawford was one of the army disappointed in the West* Coast rush, and afterwards was attracted to Wellington, by a report of gold at Terawluti. that turned out to be a duffer, Mr. Crawford took work on the first reclamation works in Wellington. Sub. secjuontly he became clerk in an Auckland brewery, and he learned the business, and in time started the first brewery in Gisborne, now known as the Gis« borne Brewery Co., and owned for the greater part by Mr. D. J. Barry. Mr, Crawford was a noted amateur photographer. __________