Thank you for correcting the text in this article. Your corrections improve Papers Past searches for everyone. See the latest corrections.

This article contains searchable text which was automatically generated and may contain errors. Join the community and correct any errors you spot to help us improve Papers Past.

Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image

PERSONAL ITEMS

Cable advice dated November •!, 1918, has been received at Base IJecords stating that Major Guy Featherston and Captain V. J. Gallic, iI.C, have been awarded Iho Croix de Guerre. The next-01-kin of Captain Gallie is Mr. J. Gallic, -17 Stoke Sheet, Wellington. The noxt-of-kin of Major Featherston is not known at Base Eecords. Both oiiicers aro attached to the Eoyal Field Artillery. Mr. F. V. Waters, chief clerk of tho General Post Office, was reported yesterday to be still in a serious condition. Dr. Pollen lias had another relapse, and is very weak. Miss Pollen is doing very well.

Tho death, from influenza, occurred on November 11 at Whangaroii of Mr. G. C. L. Anyon. After serving his time with Messrs. J". Duthie and Co., Ltd., tho late Mr. Anyon spent som\ time in New York and Vancouver in order to gain further experience. Upon his return to New Zealand ho joined up with Messrs. John Chambers ami Co., Ltd., of Auckland. Tho deceased was unmarried, his

parents residing at 54 Derwcnt Street,

island Bay. Captain B. A. Savage, of the Otago Infantry Eegiment, who was yesterday reported killed , in action on November 5, was the son of Mrs. M. Savage, 33 Plunkot Avenue, Petone. Tho late Captain Savage was about 17 years of ago' when he enlisted, and sailed with the Main Body as a non-commissioned officer. Ho rose to the rank of second lieutenant, and was recently promoted captain. Ho was in the shipping department of Messrs. Johnston and Co. before donning khaki, and the flag over the company's offico was yesterday flying at tho half in his memory. <:

News has been received of tho death in France on November t of Major Hugh B. M'Kinnon, M.C. The deceased spent

his early days in Cartorton, and left with the Main Body as a lieutenant. He had been engaged'in many fights, and was several times wounded. . x

Mr. W. Nosworthy, M.P., who has been suffering from an attack of influonza, is now convalescent.

A Press Association telegram from Auckland announces the death from influenza of Mr. Joseph MncM-ahon, who is well known in theatrical and movingpicture circles.

The condition of Mr, A. IT. Stevenson, assistant-executive officer, Muntions and Supplies Department, who is ill with iulluenza at his residence, 36 Plunket Street, Kelburn, was considered serious yesterday. Great regret will be expressed at the news of the death from influenza on Thursday night, at Wellington ' College Hospital, of Mr. Crofton Umbers, son of Mr. J. C. A. Umbers, postmaster at Moray Placo, Ounedin. Mr. Umbers, who was on tho accountant's staff of tho Superannuation Board, was for some time in the employ of Messrs. A. and T. Burl, at Dunedin. He came to Wellington about three months ago, and took part as a member of tho chorus in the recent amateur performance of "The Gondoliers." His wife (who played the role of Tessa in that performance) was seized with influenza on the last.day.of the season, but managed to -struggle through her part at night. Both Mr. and Mrs. Umbers were seriously ill during tho next week, and in the case of Mr. Umbers, pneumonic developments took place, with fatal results. Mrs. Umbers is still in a convalescent home. A brother of the deceased, Flight-Lieu-tenant Clarence Umbers, has been seriously ill in Dunedin for the piist fortnight. Mr. Crofton Umbers leaves a widow and one child.

Mr. Alfred Tilbury, of Taita, one of tho best-known market gardeners in tho llutt Valley, succumbed to influenza at G a.m; on Thursday.

Mr. V. G. Hutton, of the Magistrate's Court clerical staff, has , been discharged from the Wellington College hospital, and is now an inmate of a convalescent hospital.

Mr. C. W. Scurr,. -Mayor of St. Kilda, Dunedin, hits succumbed to influenza.

. Two of the chauffeurs of the Chief Post Oliicu garage, Messrs. Griffiths (a single man) and.'!'. L. .Richardson (a married inn 11 with three children), have succumbed to the epidemic. The deaths of two branch postmasters are also announced. Mr. T. Brown, postmaster of Ashburst, formerly of Tokaami, died at Palmerston a few days ago, and Mr. J. J. A. Black, postmaster at Tauherenikau Military Camp, succumbed on Thursday. From all branches of the Post Office come reports that business is being carried on with the assistance of men released from camp and casual outsjde helpers, and that all staffs are working splendidly to cope with the "rush" conditions imposed by the epidemic.

Mr. Fred. Larkin, eon of Mr. John Larkin, of Wadestown, died in hospital yesterday morning- from influenza. The family is one that has suffered severely in the war and the epidemic. The youngest daughter died at Taiimaniniii on Tuesday, and the eldest son, Mr. John Larkin, of Ngaio, died on Wednesday, leaving' a wife and four children. A younger son was killed at tho front. The late Mr. Fred. Larkin, who was at one time a. councillor of the Onslow Borough, had seen' considerable war service, and had been severely wounded on three occasions. There is" another son still at the front.

. The funeral of Mr. D. D. Weir, chairman of the Wellington liugby Union, took pli\ce yesterday, deceased being buried at" Kiw'ori Cemetery. There was a large attendance, including , Mr. J. Weir, of Auckland, brother of deceased, tho local sports bodies being represented as follows:—New Zealand flugby Union, Messrs. G. Dixon, A. Laurenson, E. Wylie, W. H. Man-is, and Dr. M'Jivedy; Wellington Rugby Union, Messrs. W. Donovan, Kitto, M'Hraith, J. Lundon, and T. H. Jones (lion, Wellington Football Clii'b, Messrs. A. D. Thomson, G. Fncho, .1. Thompson, G. Miller, G. F. Jactaon, W. H. Aliern, A. Cooper, Lieutenant Valentino; Poneke Football Club, 11 r. A. Wirenj Treiithniii football tcame, Sergeant-Major Brooks; Wellington Referees' Association, Mr. L. Simpson; Athletic Park Retention Committee, Mα , . S. Wright, secretary; Athletic Football Club, Mr. W.'H. Ridler; New Zealand Amateur- Athletic Association and Wellinston Hockey Association, Mr. Cusack; li'ailway Department, Messrs. W. Ridler (representing tho General Manager), Evans (locomotive engineer, Pclonc), Jenkins (chief draughtsman), Hewitt, and several members, of the staff of the Petone Workshops; The Wellington Football CM) provided the pall-bearers. Assistant Scout Master Roberts, of the St. Peter's -Mission troop, dird on Thursday night. Tho funeral tnnk place yesterday scouts acting as pall-bearers. Deecnspif was 11 keen scoutmaster, and popular in that, organisation. He was a native of tho Wost Coast, Mr. Percy Foote, representative of Messrs. Briscoo i.nd Co. in the Taranaki mid Wnnganni districts, died in New Plymouth on Thursday night, the cause of death being influenza. Lieutenant Haloid Spoigbt, M.C. (son of tho Into Mr. W. C Speight, of the Auckland ".Star"), who was nl: Gallipoli with (he fnwt batteries nf artillery, has died ill Whiikiitnno from inlluonzn. He and Major Clyde M'Gilp, who died at l-'cJiHierstmi lust wfck, assisted In save tho Insr gun belonging to the Anzacs at tho evacuation. Mr. John Iloggnrd, of tho firm of Messrs. TTogjjurd" and Prouse, architects, is recovering after a severe, bout of in-, fluenza,

The Bcv. Father Klncaid, S.M., of Taihape, has succumbed to the- influenza epidemic, and his assistant, the Eev. Father Burgin, S.M., is Buffering from the same complaint. Mr. A. M'C'arthy, who has been DeputyBegistrar of tlie Supre'no Court, Christchnrcli, for about, six years, has received notice of transfer to a similar position in .Auckland. Major E. E. Cooper, son of Mr. Henry Cooper, of Ponsonby,' luis been awarded tho Croix de Guerre, Major Cooper, who has been serving with tho lioyul Garrison Artillery, Imperial Forces, joined his regiment as a subaltern in 1910. He was an old boy of Hie Auckland Grammar School, and at oik time was on the reporting start' of the "New Zenland Herald." Dr. A. W. T. O'Sullivan, of Duncdin, died from pneumonia at Auckland Hospital on Thursday night. The death is reported of Constable Luke, of Christchurch, and formerly of Mt. Cook Station, "Wellington, and Wairun, Ikvwke's liny-; Constable Luke had been suffering from influcnp, and is tliu twelfth member of ihe police force to die a≤ a result of the epidemic. Advice lms been received that Colonel Robert Ciuidlish Allen, formerly of Annandalc, Pinko, was wounded—for the third time—in France on November 7. C6lonel Allen has had a distinguished career at-the front. Ho left 'New Zealand in charge of a.reinforcement draft, with the rank of major, in September, 1915, and later was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the iield, and was appointed to the command of a battalion of tho Auckland Hegiment in February, 1917. O)i July 10 of tho same year lie was awarded the D.s.O. for gallantry at Messines, in vrhiuh battle- he was wounded. A brother, Lieutenant J. C. .Allen, was killed in action in October, 11)17, and another brother, Lieutenant-Colonel S. S.. Allen, has been awarded the D.S.O. and bar to tho distinction. Colonel Allen, was invalided to the Dominion in tlio' latter part of ISII7, but .returned to the front in July of this year.

Mr. V. J. Larner, of Auckland, has been appointed a director of the South British Insurance Company, in place of the late Dr. W. C. W. M'Dowell.

Mr. Herbert F. Wood, of the Land and Income Tax Department, who lias boon very ill since ho appeared in Iho tecent amateur performance of '"Ihe Gondoliers," is now beginning to pick up. In his case influenza. was the prelude to a sharp attack of congestion of the lungs. It will be Eome weeks before Mr. Wood will bo able to resume his duties.

One of the best-known settlers in the Featherston district, Mr. John Fenwick, died on Thursday. The deceased gentleman was well known throughout the province as a prominent sportsman.

Messrs. T. 0. Haycock and J. Parker have been elected to vacancies on tho Featherston County Council.

Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19181123.2.20

Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 50, 23 November 1918, Page 6

Word count
Tapeke kupu
1,630

PERSONAL ITEMS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 50, 23 November 1918, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 50, 23 November 1918, Page 6

Help

Log in or create a Papers Past website account

Use your Papers Past website account to correct newspaper text.

By creating and using this account you agree to our terms of use.

Log in with RealMe®

If you’ve used a RealMe login somewhere else, you can use it here too. If you don’t already have a username and password, just click Log in and you can choose to create one.


Log in again to continue your work

Your session has expired.

Log in again with RealMe®


Alert