PERSONAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3920, 19 March 1929, Page 2

PERSONAL

Mrs. E. Parkin of Johnston St., is at present spending a holiday with her son ..at Taihape. Mr. R. Desjardines has accepted a position in Hawera and has left to take up his duties in that town. Owing to all-health, the Veil. Archdeacon Allan Macdonald Johnson, M.A., vicar of St. Paul’s ProCathedral, Wellington, has resigned. The funeral of the late Sir Charles Skerrett will take place next Wednesday, according to cabled advice received privately from London. Mr. A. D. McLeod, late Minister of Lands in the Coates Government, is making a health-recruiting visit to Great Britain and will visit South Africa on his return. At the continuation of the W.C.T.U. Convention in Wellington yesterday, Mi’s. S. H. Peryman was re-elected editress and business manageress of the “White Ribbon.” Mrs. Peryman was made the recipient of a bouquet on the presentation of her annual report. Miss Lois Brook-Taylor, one of the young ladies injured in the recent motor accident at Longburn is reported by thS hospital authorities to be making excellent progress. Her sister, Miss Audrey BrookeTaylor, has already been discharged from the institution. The re-appointment of Messrs James S. Tingey (Feilding) and John K. Hornblow (Foxton) as honorary child welfare officers under the Child Welfare Act, 1925, is announced in the New Zealand Gazette. Mr. A. F. Kaufmann has been appointed to a similar position in Palmerston North.

The death occurred in Palmerston North on Sunday morning after a short illness of Mr. H. W. Brown, deputy registrar of the Palmerston North Supreme Court, at the age of 31 years. The late Mr. Brown was veil known in sporting circles and was secretary of the Kia Toa Football Club and Manawatu Athletic sub-centre. He was also a mehrber of the Afanawatu A.A. and jC. Club. Deceased leaves a widow and three young children. Air. Harry James Gavvler, a pioneer settler- of the Pohangina valley, Aianawatu, died at 'the Palmerston North Public Hospital on March 5, after a long and painful illness. Deceased was born at Deptford, Kent, England, in 1857, and came to New Zealand with his parents when two years of age. His father, fhe late Williaan Gawler, was one of the first tailors in business in Wellington, and was under contract to the New Zealand Government for the manufacture of uniforms for the soldiers. He is survived by his widow, seven sons and two daughters, one daughter having predeceased him by nine months. The sons are: Herbert (As'hhurst), - Alfred (Whangarei), Ernest Iloro, Otaki), Sydney, Te Pu, Estonia), Wilfred (Wanganui), Leslie (Palmerston North), and Spencer (Auckland). The daughters are: Mrs. R. J. Strawbridge (Waiotira, North Auckland), and Airs. D. W. Strawibaidge (Palmerston N.) The intertment took place at Kelvin Grove on March 7, 1929.

The death occurred on Saturday, at the Levin Private Hospital, of Mrs. Miller, '.wife of Mr. W. J. Miller, manager of the Hon. Edward Newman’s Kai Kai estate, Foxton Road. The deceased lady, who was in her 47th year, was a member of a well-known Wairarapa family, haring been, before her marriage, Miss Mary McKinnon, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. John McKinnon, of Carterton. She leaves, besides her husband, a groWn-up son, Jack, and a little daughter, Dolly. xVnother daughter, Miss Mavis Miller, died three years ago. She also leaves two brothers —Mr. W'. McKinnon (trainer for [Mr. F. -Ormond), and Mi-. John McKinnon (Auckland)- —a sister in Greytown, Mrs. James Wallis, and a sister in Lhe South Island. Another brother was Lieut.-(Colonel H. McKinnon, who met his death at the front just before the Armistice. Mr. and Mrs. Miller came to this district about six years ago, from Dannevirke, and made many friends, whose deep sympathy will be extended to the husband and family in their sad bereavement. The late Mrs. Miller had been ailing for two or three years, but the end caime rather suddenly as the result of a serious turn which necessitated her removal to hospital three days ago.