PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 6, 2 October 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Messrs. C. J. Parr (M.P. for Eden) and T. G. Price havo (says an Auckland paper) been appointed to attend the conferenw of delegates from townplanning leagues to Is hold in Wellington next month. "°Afc a meeting of the Southland Presbytery yesterday a call from St. Andrew's Church, Christchurch, to the Rev. R, M. Ry.burn, of First Church, Invercargill, was sustained and accepted. Speakers on behalf of the congregation and the clergy eulogised Mr. Ryburn's ten years' ministry in' Invercargill, and referred to the departing minister's exceptional qualifications in •the pulpit, in the church generally, and as a public man. His departure was greatly regretted, but it was realised that an important field lay ahead of him in Canterbury—Press Assn. A Press Association message from Waihi states that Mr. H. P. Barry, for many years superintendent .of tho Waihi Company, died at Leamington, Cambridge, on Monday. Mr. Johannes C. Anderson, nssistans librarian at the Parliamentary Library, has been appointed librarian of tho Turnbull Library. . The death is announced at Richmond, Nelson, after a long illness, of Mr. George Camion M'Murtry. Mr M'Murtry went to Nelson eleven years ago to manage the Maoriland copper mine in Aniseed Valley, and when that venture was abandoned he embarked in tho fruit industry. For some years he was manager of the Stoke Canning Company's factory, and continued iu that position till compelled by illness to relinquish active work. Mr. M'Murtry was tho first instructor in metallurgy at the Adelaide School 01 Mines, afterwards joining the Wallaroo and Moonta Mining and Smelting Company for a period of three years. After that time ho was engaged by the Great Cobar Copper Company to erect the electrolytic refinery at Lithgow, New South Wales. He remained there four years, and then he returned to the Wallaroo Company as manager of the smelting works, where he remained until coming to New Zealand m 190 i. Deceased leaves a widow, and three sons and one daughter. Lieutenant li. W. Millier, chief cleric of the Marino Department, who has recently been in hospital, has been classed"by a medical board as unfit lor further service, and has been discharged from the Expeditionary Forms. He will shortly resume his duties m tho Marino Department. At tho meeting of the Wellington Technical Education Board last evening, it was decided to unveil the Hugo Memorial Tablet erected in the Technical School on Monday evoning nest. Tho late Lieutenant Hugo, who was killed at Gallipoli early in the campaign there, was the officer in command of tho Technical' College Cadets, and the cadets subscribed to provide the tablet.

Plight-Lieutenant Jasper Naish, killed in Franco, was the only son of the lato Mr. Paul Naish, inspector of the South African Bank, .Capo Colony, and grandson of tho lato Mr: James Lissanian, Rangiora. Lieutenant Naish had served through tho East African campaign, and after recovory from an attack of malaria, he went to England, lie had been (lying in France for some months, and was wounded in July last. After spending ten days in Knglawl. lie returned to Prance, where ho. was killed soon after his arrival.

Rifleman Claronco V. Bczar, who is suffering from a gunshot- wound in the right hand, is tho son of Sergeant-Mn-jor P. W. Uezar, of Wellington (lato twelfth Reinforcements), and a grandson of Scrgcnnt-Jlajor K. Rnmii'. a British war vcforan. Rifleman Ilczar, who left with tho Thirty-fifth _ Rcinforocments, received his educr.iion at. tho Marist Brothers' School, Newtown, and is very .well known in swimming circles in Wellington, being tho holdcr-of some valuable trophies. Before enlisting ho was in tlio service of the Union Steam Ship Company.

News lias been received of tlio death in action of Lance-Corporal David Prouso Smith, Middlesex Regiment, Imperial Forces—an old Wellingtoniaii. Lance-Corporal Smith was in Southall, England, when war broke out, and he immediately enlisted with the Imperial Forces, and up to the time of his death had scon four years of active service. Private John M'Kay (killed in action) was tlio son of Mr. I). M'Kay, of Enibo, Sutherland, Scotland. He had been on war work since September, 1914,- being a seaman, also in the R.N.It. He left WcHingtom with the transport which carried the 'troops to Samoa, and later went with the Seventh Reinforcements to Egypt. Then ho had a year's service on the hospital ship Maheno, and joined the naval transport which took the Twenty-first Reinforcements Home. Returning to Now Zealand ho enlisted in Auckland in Juno, 1917, and went away with tho 33rd Specialist. His only brother was killed in tho .battle of Mons.