PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2822, 13 July 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

A Press Association message from Auckland records the death, of Mr. J. J. Craig, shipowner and head of the firm of Oraig and Co., carriers. The late Mr. Craig was one of the best-known and most successful business men in Auckland. Ho wns born (here on January 22, 1860, and was educated at Carlton Academy an<l Mr. Baird's school (now the Princo Albert College) in his nativo town. Entering his father's office, ho soon showed that ho possessed in u t&vo degree {he faculty of managing large concerns. For many Tears past he had one of tho largest employers of labour in Auckland. ..lie was a director of numerous companies, and -was reputed to be one of the wealthiest men in New Zealand. Nolwithstanding.his mauy business responsibili- ' ties, he was ,able to devote some of his time to 'public affairs. For somo years h© M*as a member of the Auckland Cily Council, the Auckland Harbour Board, and the Auckland Licensing Committee. Ho was liead of the Craig steamers and Bailors, and was believed to have had raoro capital lnrostod in coal mines in tho Auckland district than any other man in that part of the JJominion. In ISBS lie married a. daughter of Captain Alexander Campbell, of Prince Edward Island, and he has left two sons and threo daughters. Mr. \Y. A. Hislop, one of thc Y.M.C.A. secretaries at the front in 1 ranee, la suffering from shell shock. Mr. Hi s '°P loft with the first troops from Egypt, and has been since April near the firingline somewhero in Trance. Liout.-Colonel L. 15. Harnett, who was at No 1 General Hospital, Pont de Koubbch, Cairo, until, our troops were ordered to France, is now in England. Ho is consulting surgeon at the militarr hospital in the New Forest His second eon\ Captain Ralph Burnett, is with his raiment (the Lancashire Fusiliers), which is stationed somewhere in. the vicinity of the Suez Canal. Mr. H. Kissol, chief postmaster at Timaru, died on Saturday, llr. Kissel was a man only a few years past the prune of life, but ho had suffered for some time fronyan incurable malady, and bore a very pftinful illness with much fortitude. He joined, the Postal Department, at Christclnirch in 1577. After a few years he was transferred to Wellington, where he remained for some time. Ho leaves a widow and four, children—two sons and two daughters. Mr. Lewis Corbett. a member of the Canterbury Rugby Union Executive. and well known a few years ago as a Canterbury representative footballer, died suddenly yesterday, says a Pre?* Association telegram from Christchurch. •Chaplain-Captain Koare, of tho Salvation Army, lias gone to Trentham Camp to relieve Captain-Chaplain A. Gray. The'' Rev. G. E. Hole, of the Wellington Unitarian Church, has arranged to exchange places with the Rev. W. E. Williams, of Auckland, for the next three i Sundays. An old identity of Masterton, Mr. Edward Bridge Rofiinson, who was a native of Bolton, Lancashire; died in the local Hospital on Tuesday. Word was received in Napier on Tuesday.that Captain H. White-Parsons harbourmaster, who is now serving with the Admiralty, has arrived at Singapore. Tho Wairarapa Presbytery has placed on record its high appreciation of the work of the Rev. G. K. Stowcll, who has resigned from the' South Wairarapa charge owing to ill-health.