PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 15, 18 January 1924, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

Sir R. Heaton Rhodes, Minister of Defence, arrived this morning from thfe South. ■ , . ■■..•,, .. . The Rev. J. G: Ellis, late of Papanui, Christchurch, has accepted the call to the ministry of the Unitarian Church, Wellington.. The Ho'h. J. G. Coates,: Minister of Railways and Public Works, is expect ed to return to Auckland after his tour of the Far North on Tuesday next, and will probably arrive in Wellington on Saturday, 26th January, Mr, Jules Schadick, whose death occurred at Westport last month, had held the position of borough engineer there fbr many years. Born in Berlin in 1844, ho was educated _at Berlin Educational College. His.: grandfather wai", the proprietor of a large sugar works; in Berlin, and his father was engagfedin survey work in the same icity.v.;,The late Mr. Jules Schadick came {to ■ :N<jw Zealand 60 years ago, and followed go'ldmin-. .ing in Westland, being one of the first ■ te : explore the Hokitika River. Ten years later he went to Westport, where he joined the Government Survey "Department. He later took' up " private practice as. civil .and mining engineer.: In 1898 he was appointed borough engineer at Westport, where he carried out. many important works, including the designing and erection of the municipal} abattoirs, the erection of. the Carnegiev Library, the making of Victoria squared and the construction of the municipal, waterworks. He is survived'by four daughters, Mrs. Ross; Cooper, of -Ores-; wick road, Northland, Wellington ;1 Misses Annie Emma and Ottile Scti'adick;: and one son; Mr. Campbell Schadick/: county engineer at Westport. v Dr. Ralph Stuart Stephenson, whose? death at Dunedin was reported yester-■ day, was the third son of-the Rev. F.'E;)' Stephenson, who went to Tasmania, andY had the deceased educated primarily atj Horton College, near Ross, where he; gained a Tasmanian Government scholf' arship. This entitled him to. tuition for", several years in the best medical, schools - of the Old Country. He'f orttiwith;'pro-i ceeded to Edinburgh, where in 1890 he? graduated M.B. .and CM. .During" 1890t91 he further studied in the X6n-' don and Dublin; Hospitals;.. - In: :1891t. he went to Melbourne, and ' soon after arriving there was .appointed, senior resident -surgeon of the' public .'.hospital. About two yeai-s later he established a private practice, at St. KildaVinear Melbourne. In 1895 he camei to< Dtmedin, where, states "The Post's ; V . ;..' "Dunedin correspondent, he had a .wijde ; ';p.ractice and became a: very usefuf number;' t>f the community. He took^MJ.^ojSw'ln-1 terest in the Otago Institute^ thfe Otago Cycling Club, the Kaituria Bowling Club, and ;of late yfars,<the St. Clair Bowling Club. About eleven .years ago he paid a visit to Edinburgh'and qualified as M.D. He'went'to, the Great War as principal medical officer on one of the New Zealand transports, and served for between two.ahd three years. That service was partly, if not wholly, the cause of his physical breakdown. Mrs. Stephenson survives her husband, and there are two sons and two dauehters. ■■■':' ' . „.*■'. ■