PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 248, 17 September 1940, Page 6

PERSONAL.

His Honour Mr Justice Smith returned to Wellington this afternoon after presiding at a sitting of the Compensation Court at this centre.

The friends of Mr A. P. Brown, of Ashhurst, will regret to learn that he is still an inmate of a private hospital. Rev. H. E. Harkness, who has been supplying minister at the Dominion Road Methodist Church, Auckland, has gone to the Trenthdm mobilisation camp for service with the Y’.M.C.A. Mr Harkness is the second minister the congregation has released for active service. Rev. F. Gardner Brown being with the Third Echelon. The death has occurred in Wanganui of Captain J. W. Crotty, who was born in Cobh, Eire, 80 years ago. He went to sea before the mast when ho was 15 years old and came to New Zealand in 1895. For many years he was in the service of the Union Steam Ship Company, and w r as later engaged in the coastal trade, being captain of several ships. His wife died five years ago and he leaves one daughter and five sons,. the latter including Mr T. V. Crotty (Foxton). The death occurred suddenly at Wellington yesterday of Mr Charles E. Richardson, a well-known city business man, aged 71. Mr Richardson was the third son of Hon. Edward Richardson, C. M.L.C.. a London man who becamo very well-known in New Zealand as a contractor for important railway works and later as a politician. He was trained as a railway engineer but later he became a dredge master and operated gold dredges in Central Otago and at Murchison. He then went to Australia • and _ South Africa, where in conjunction with Mr D. K. Blair, of Wellington, he designed dredges, including some of the first tin dredges used in Malaya. Early in the present century Mr Richardson ajjd Mr Blair returned to Wellington and began an engineering and importing firm.