PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9790, 13 October 1917, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Mr J. P>. Clarkson will leave for south to-night.

Mr V. W. Oakley, of Day’s Bay, has ibeeii advised that In-s sou, Private Oakley, has been gassed, but is improving.

Mr W. 11. Dempsey. postmaster at Pahiatuiv, is about, to retire on superannuation after -10 years’ /service.

His Honour Mr Justice Stringer will arrive from Auckland to-day on Arbitration Court business, illo will probably return north next week.

Lieutenant A. 11. Ell, son of Mr 11. G. Ell, M.P. for Christchurch South, has been wounded in action in the fighting on October 4th. ' Gunner A. McCarlie, youngest son of Mrs W. McCarlie, of Nairn street, who left with the 22nd Reinforcements, ms wounded and admitted to hospital on the 2nd inst. His brother Charles, [who was wounded on Juno 15th, has almost recovered.

Guests ut the New Commercial are:— Mr and Mrs Dew (Christchurch), Mr and Mrs Collins (Gisborne). Mr and Mrs Thompson (Greymouth), Messrs Donald (Mastsrton), .Strang (Christchurch), Craig (Auekttand), Wilkinson (Sydney), Palmer (.Palmerston North).

Advice h'aa been received by Rev. J, MicCanv, of Laver Hurt, that bin sen. Sergeant W. MoCaw, M.M., has gone to ’Cam l bridge for a training course prior to sitting for his commission. Sergeant iMtoOaw was oji tho staff of the Upper Hutt Public School, and has served ■through Samoa, Gallipoli and Franco.

Mr A. M. Jones, district accountant at the Christchurch General Post Office, ■wtho has been transferred to iho game position at Auckland, entered the postal service in tho northern city, and later, went to New Plymouth, Christchurch and Wellington. Five years ago he was transferred from Wellington to his .present position in Chrisec-nurdh. Mr S. A. Newman, chief mail clerk at Dunedin, wil Itako Mr Jones’s position in Christchurch.

The funeral of the late Hon. J. D. Ormond. M.L.C., took place at the N’apieir Cemetery on Tuesday morning. Tha cortege Was a lengthy one, and included representatives from moet of Dio local .bodies in Uunvko’s Bay. Following the hoar&o were Messrs G. F. and J. Or- , mond, tho Hon. .Sir Francis 8011, Sir' James Carroll and Mir Q. Hunter, M.P. Tho Prime Minister (Rt. Hon. W. P. ■ MUssey) and Sir Joseph Ward telegraph, cd expressing their sympathy, and regretting that important business made it impossible for tham to pay their last tribute to one who had. done eo much for the Dominion.

The death has occurred at Dunedin l of Mr William Couli, of the. printingand publishing firm of Coulls, Culling and Co. The deceased, who was a native of London, went to the West Indies .as a boy, and spent several .years„ there with an uncle. He afterwards re-, turned to the metropolis and learnt tho printing trade, being on tho staff., of the London “Daily Telegraph.” He. tome to New Zealand in 1870, with his. two brothers, who are now dead. Soonafter their arrival, the brothers started, in business as printers, and. afterwards (went into partneship with Mr Thomas Culling, now deceased. Mr William, (Couli, who was highly respected, took/ a prominent part in Dunedin Congregational Church affairs. Ho leaves ai widow and a widowed daughter.’

Advice has been received of the death, in action of Private Eric Rowland: Whitelaw, son of Mr A. A. Whitelaw, Chief of the "Evening Post” stereotyping department. Tho deceased was Earn, in Wellington, and educated at tho South 'Wellington school; previous to enlistment he was on the staff of tho motor department of Messrs Hatricb and Co. He left with the 7th Reinforcements, and until tho last big battle in Prance escaped casuMty. Both of (his brothers have, won the Military Medal. The eldest. Sapper Len WhiteJaw, loft Now Zealand with the 16th 1 Reinforcements, having previously seen, service in Samoa. The other brother. Private Leslie Whitelaw, left with tho iltth Reinforcements, and is now in tho Brocken hurst Hospital with. wounds,! Both the brothers have been wounded.

Second-Lieutenant Henry T. Marshall, who will leave with tho 30th .Reinforcements, belongs to a family with a solid military record. His groatgirandfbthei was in tho famous charge of the Innisfcilling Dragoons, and gained the Waterloo Medal and the medal for distinguish! ed conduct in the .field. He received nC fewer than thirteen wounds. His grandfather served in tho same regiment in the -Crimean War, and wore the medal for Sebastopol the fourth degree of tha Turkish Majidieh (by election of lha men of the regiment), and the Sardinian Medal. His father, Captain J. T. Marshall. of Wo'hiwMon, saw .service during tho .Indian Mutiny, in' tho Maori War (18GC-9), and in the Boer War (1900-1). His uncle wcnl‘ through tho Indian Mutiny, and atso did military duty in tho North-Weft provinces, and oft Bhootan. Lieutenant Marshall will be accompanied by his wife, who .has joined the Army Nursing Corps.

Advice is to hand of the death inaction on October 4th of Lieutenant Stanley Marsden, eon of Mr and Sir* -Mcirsdon, of Pefono. Tho deceased was educated at Petonc District High School, from ivhere lie passed bis Civil Service and matriculation examinations, and afterwards to ole his 13. A. degree. Ha vfing decided on a teaching career, he obtained a post on the staff of Petone school, and was transferred subsequently to Island Bay, and then to the Terraco school, where he was engaged at the time of his enlistment. He loft Mew Zealand as officer commanding E Company of the 2].st Heiuforcements, and was afterwards transferred in England to the light trench mortar battery. The deceased, who was very popular in Potoae, married Miss Vera Hunter, of Mount Cook Infant School ■staff, shortly before going to the front. In informing the Terrace school pupils of their late teacher s death, the headmaster, Mr Maeinorrnn, paid a welldeserved tribute to the qualities of their former tutor.