PERSONAL ITEMS

Nelson Evening Mail, 20 September 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The death oceui-red yesterday morning of Mr W. MyAton, of Pokororo. The deceased, who was a very highly respited resident of the district, was born in Worcestershire, England, and came to Kelson with his parents in rtihe sihip Phoebe m 1851. lie took up land in- the Pokororo -district in 1869, and was a most successful farmer. He leaves a widow and a grown--uipi fanvly.

Mrs Thomas Brewer, who died at Rockvadle recently, was a daughter of the late Mr and Mrs John Ellis—almost the earliest pioneers of Golden Bay—and was bom at sea on a voyage to New Zealand on (tth© ship Bernacia, after which she was named,. The deceased was the mother of a family of four sons and six daughters.

Mr W. H. .Day, formerly of Belgrove, who saw service in Gallipoli as a sergeant of the Fifth Reinforcements, passed -through Nelson to-day on a visit to his father at -Cbllingwood, Prior to enlistMr Dav was in the Auckland Railway manager's office and now having received his discharge is returning to position- Before joining the railways Mr Day was train boy for the Evening Mail between Nelson and Belgrove. Mr J. W. Kinzett this morning received a letter from his son Private I<. W Kinzett, written in a London hospital stating that he was recovering. This ■ is the first intimation that Mr Kinzett has had that hi* son was either wounded or invalided. Private Kinzett speaks m high terms of the treatment received in hospital. The funeral of the late Mr John Martin Croucher at Richmond yesterday afternoon very largely attended. In addition to tlie present Mayor and Councillors of the borough and the Town Clerk the following ex-Councillors attended:—Messrs W. D. Harkness, J. F. Papps. C. E. Molesworth, T. H. Holland, W. E. Wilkes, W. Hart, J. A. Haycock. The Stoke Road Board was represented bv Messrs J. E. Bartlett and J. Glen. There were also present from Nelson Messrs T. A. H. Field. M.P., C. J. Harley (Mayor), W. W. Snodgrass (exCouncillor), and other .representative citizens. Lieut. W. Watt, formerly third officer on theTakapTina in the Oisbome-Napier run, who enlfsted in tthie Navy when the war sauted, and ap last winter was navi--sabing one of <the patrol vessels off the English} coaist, ihias joined' the naval air = service, and at latest advice was busy driving an aeroplane in the North of Scotland.

Bv to-day's mail Mr J. W. Hollyman received word giving details of the death of his son, Sapper H. L. Hollyman, who was killed in action in France. The letter is from Sapper Perkins, who states: —". . Word was sent up to me that a friend of mine had been killed, and I went down to the Mortuary to find out who it was, little dreaming that it was Les. The pilace he was in was shelled., and he and another man named Shaw were both killed and five others were wounded. You will be glad to know that he did not-" suffer. He was killed instantaneously, the piece of shell going through his neck. Shaw lingered for a short time. I have just come away from the cemetery, and you will be to know that he was given a decent burial, Major-Chaplain McLean burying him. The 'Colonel, Major, and four other officers of his company, and about 30 of the men were .there. Also there were about 15 Nelson, boys present to pay our last respects. Les. was very popular in his company, especially with the Major, whom he got on- so well with. You will understand how much I will miss him. He and I were always ticgether, audi -were making such plans for a holiday when we got b3ck. . ."