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Mr. Justice Cooper and Mr. Justice Hosking will remain in Auckland for some time owing to the pressure of business there. Because of this Mr. Justice Cooper will not come to Wellington for the sitting of the Court of Appeal.
Dr. H. W. Cleary, Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland, is at present on a visit to Wellington.
Mr. C. TV. Batten, Wellington District Repatriation Officer, left for Palmerston North yesterday in. connection with tho Palmerston Branch of the Repatriation Department. Mr. Batten will probably return to the city to-day. Corporal H. .T. Shakes, formerly of the staff of the Public Trust Office, was among the men to return to Wellington by the Zealandic last week. He was shot in tho left shoulder, and is still undergoing massage treatment. Mr. TV. N. Seay, of Addington, received cable advice on Saturday that his second son, First Class Warrant Officer Clarence A. Seay, died abroad on February 20 of influenza. At the time of his death lie was acting as conductor of the N.Z. Ordnance Corps with the New Zealand Forces on the Rhine. He was horn in 1892, and received Lis education at the Addington • and West Christchurch D.H.S., and was very popular with oil who came in contact with him. He was a good swimmer aud tennis player. After leaving school he studied accountancy, and joined the staff of the WestportStocktou Coal Company. A year before the war broke out ho joined his uncle on a farm in South Canterbury. Enlisting soon after tho outbreak of hostilities, lie left New Zealand as a private in the Eighth Reinforcements, infantry, and after being in Egypt for some time temporarily succumbed to tho climate, and was transferred to tho Ordnance Corps, leaving with the New Zealand Division for France, where ho enjoyed good health and was constantly on duty for three years. He was promoted successively from sergeant, sub-conductor, to conductor, and first-class warrant officer. During the buttle of the Somrne lie was mentioned in dispatches for his irond work. In Slay, last his younger brother, Gordon, was killed in action, and his older brother died from appendicitis some time before the outbreak of war. Very I sincere sympathy is felt for the family in their severe bereavement.
Mrs. Fix, of "The Mansions," has been informed tnafc her 6on, Sergeant Wl Fix, M.M., of tho Main Body, N.Z.E.F., is returning by the Athenio, which is duo about MaToh 18,
Regret was expressed at the Methodist Conference at Christchurch that the Rev. J. J. Lewis, of Auckland, had been placed on the supernumerary list. He has been in the ministry of the Church for fortynine years. Tho Rev. C. H. Laws stated that it was one of Mr. Lewis's regrets that his health would not allow him to complete half a century's work. Several members of the conference said that Air. Lewis's life a;id work had been a great inspiration to them.
Mr. J. Nagle, of Wellington, has been 'advised of . the death in London, from pneumonia following on influenza, of Ms eon, Staff Sergeant-Major W. J. Nagle, who had been on active service for over three years. Deceased, who was thirty years of age, was for some time previous to enlisting on the staff of the Wellington Gas Cbmpany.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 138, 6 March 1919, Page 6
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