PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3057, 19 April 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Professor H. Clark, at present connected with ' Harvard University, JJ.S.A., was last evening appointed temporary- Professor of Physics by the Victoria College Council, in. place, of Professor Marsden,. who has gone to [the front.

Mr. H. R. Smith, Town Clerk of Christchurch, 011 Monday received cable advice, dated April 11, 'that his' son, Private Cedric Smith, Fifth Reinforcements, had been, woundedj one of liis. legs having been fractured by a shell. The message further stated that Private Smith was progressing favourably. Dr. H. D. Bamford and Mr. J. R. Reed, K.C., of Auckland, who have 'been engagea in the Court of Appeal, will return to Auckland to-day. News was received in Wellington yesterday of the death at Auckland on Tuesday of Mr. Lancelot W. D. Andrews, manager for, New Zealand for the United Insurance Company. The late Mr. ■ Andrews, who was about 48 years of age, was formerly stationed in Wellington as chief clerk and accountant of the company. He was then transferred to Auckland as district manager, and on the retirement of Mr. J. S. Jameson he became general manager. In his younger days . Mr. Andrews was a prominent footballer, and for many years he took an interest in kennel matters. He had been ill and unable to attend at his office since February. He has left a widow, but no children. His ' boyhood was spent ■on the West Coast. Ho leaves a • wife (formerly a Miss Cross, of Nelson).

The death occurred in a private hospital on Tuesday of Mr. George Alfred Mawson., a resident of ■Wellington for many years. The late Mr. Mawson, who was 08 years of age, was in business in Cuba Street as a pastrycook and confectioner for twenty-seven years, and subsequently he kept a shop at Berhampore. For some time before his death he had led a retired life: A few days ago he became ill, and on Monday he was removed to a private hospital, where an operation was at once performed. On the .following morning he was dead. The caiise of death was peritonitis. The late Mr. Mawson leaves a widow arid Wo sons —Mr. Percival G. Mawson, of Messrs. Veitch'and Allan's staff, and Mr. Rowley Mawson; of Taita.

Another of Hawko's Bay's earliest and best-known settlers, 111 the person of Mr. George. Bymer, died at his residence, Napier, early on Tuesday morning, at tho age of 74 years. The, late Mr. liymor was born in Yorkshire.' and arrived in Now Zealand in 1860, and was present) at tho Gabriel's Gully rush in Otago in the following year. He arrived in Hawko's Bay in 1803, and from that timo onwards lias boon inoro or loss Mentified .with tho progress of the provinco. Ho leaves a, grown-up family of three daughters— Mrs. J. G. Speedy, of Aramoana, AVaipawa, Mrs. P. A. Hardy, of Palmerston North, and Mis? Rymor, ofNapior— and one son, Mr. Harvoy Ryoier, of Moanee. Tho immediate causc of death was heart failure supervening <in internal trouV.e- / 1