PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 175, 19 April 1919, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

.Mr. Justice. Ilerdinaii is pending Hie liastcr holidays at Lake rar.uvor.i. The death occurred .ve-tordny at Jinre re Koad, ICelburn, ol Air. Alfred At* kin-. F.11.1.8.A.. of the firm of Messrs. AI kins, Bacon, mid Mitchell, architects, The Into .Mr.- Atkins, who has been >nfI'eiing front pneumonia with complicalions, leaves a widow, but no laiilily. Jlr. Atkins was nn active worker in numerous organisations for public welfare. ;iu«l was a paiiieuiarlj oneicetii' mem hiM' ol' (lie Navy League. The appointment of Air. Waller Goring ,Johnston tis Consul jor the Nctbcrlonus at" Wellington is. gazetted. ' The death is reported' of Mr/Jolm Hall, a well-known ('hrislehnrch ncr. chant, in his sixty-thinl "year.

.Mr. John Baillie, who has been engage'tl on the staff* of the electric lighting department here for some little time past, is leaving fur New Plymouth shortly, having been appointed librarian to Ino '.Municipal l'rce Public Library. MrJohn Haillie is a brother of Mr. Herbert Haillie, chief city librarian m Wellington, and at one.(into both were in tlio hook trade in this city. Subsequently Jlr. John Haillie went, to England, and became an art dealer and connoisseur as proprietor of the Haillie Gallery. !>oniß live or six years ago ho brought a, collection of pictures to New Zealand, -and whilst'here suffered from ill-health tor many mouths, after which ho settled in .Wellington..

• Mr. Henry Thomas-.Salmon, farmer, of Whatoro, Northern Wairoa, died in Auckland Hospital recently, i'lie deceased was an old identity, having arrived in Auckland with his parents nearly sixty years ago, when twelve years ot age. He joined the armed constabulary at jhe iicre, of 21 years. In 188(i he was drafted into the police force.,- He was stationed for a long time at Masterton, IJ.awcra, Foxton, and Jlauaia, Taranaki. tfo loaves a widow, five sons, and one divugtiteiv One son Was killed at the llattle of Messines. The cealh is recorded of -Mr. Gilbert \nderfon, another of the pioneers ol the Australasian frozen meat industry. Air. Anderson, who was in his.(!sth year, sueclimbed /somewhat unexpectedly, iiom bronchial pneumonia, .the result ot a chill. He was widely known in the. trade. Born at Lerwick, N.U., he went to New Zealand in 1891, and became manager of the Christohurch Meat Company. He returned to England in 1906, and fomded the great business : which bears his name, and which was turned into a limited liability company early this year. Mr Gilbert Anderson, has for upwards of two dedades been prominently luentitied \flith the frozen meat industry. He was one of the first,-to' recognise its great possibilities, and was the. author oi' many pamphlets on the subject. .