PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2812, 1 July 1916, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS

. Hon. Dr; Jl'Nftb leaves to-day on a Tisit to Auckland. Ha -will return to ;. Wellingron on. Triesday. . The death took place at Trentham on Thursday of.Pte. Percy Clsmonts, a returned soldier. Pte. Clements was . a member of tlie Third Reinforcements,, and .was- wounded on Gallipoli/.suKsequently returning to Wellington on May 15.11 v the Willochra "for .duty Ho reported at Trentham Canip on June 19, taid develr oped pneumonia,"froni which he died. De-ceaseaViext-of-kin is liis sister, Mrs. S. Hansen, Hokitika. Ho will i.e buried with military'honours at'Karori ct'mc-. . tcry this morning: -,•••■ "• A.'Press. Association"', telegram from. Ohristchurcli announces the death of Mr. Thomas ; Edward' Jackson, who has been, '.ft master at the Bovs'High School since 1894. He' was a B.A. : of London : University: ' -V. ' . ■' ' The .Under-Secretary of ..Lands has notifled '.the .Wellington Land .Board that Mr. 0. M'lrityre has been reappointed a member of the Board. • tMajoV E.- Shersoh, Twentieth Reinforcements,, and.; Chaplain-Capt. D. D. Scott have gone.; into camp at Trentham. , Lieut. .K. T, Jensen,-late draughtsman for the Harbour Board, is at'present on his. final leave .before to England to complete his. training.. The death of Mr. Edward John.Arm- • strong,- in his 83rd year, occurred at the , residence of liis son -. at Gisborne, on ---Monday'Jiight: Mr. Armstrong was' a very old identity of. JPalmerston North, whore he had resided , since 1878. : In his early: manhood he was engaged in .suvvey work on: a-railway in'.the south-of Sijain, and-later his thoughts were turned to the colonies, and in' the mid-'sevonties /"\; he eaiho''- out ; to New; Zealand, entering / v the Government service.' One of his. first I I > works-was the: survey of . the railway * . route between Levin and Longburn: :An- . other .railway survey .undertaken..by.'Mr. .Armstrong- vi-.is the prelinuhary'deinarca\A tion of the line from Marton,:north to, tlic; plains. .'. His chief contribution to . . the "growth of the district was his work " /T\/ as engineer, to the several . drainago i Usl boards, operating in;the : low-lying land V / drained by the. ManawatuandOroua \_/ Rirers. Sir.•'.Armstrong, designed tlieir -.comprehensive, scheme of drainage, and superintended their, execution. He leaves . a family of four. JOf his three ions v ono is- Mr.'-.C. Armstrong,, district engineer- ■ . under the Public Works .Department at .; Gisborne; .mother is Jtr. W.' Armstrong, ■ . . manager of; the! Bank of ' Australia :'at : Fingai,. •Tasmania; and'..Miv ~H. ' Ann-. . strong, of Tauranga, is .tho third.;;. Miss ',-Armstrong is the .other , -member of tho - family. .. .. .