PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10290, 27 May 1919, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Warrant-Officer Frank K. Tucker Is among those returning by the transport Tofua, due at Fort Chalmers on Wednesday' afternoon.

Private A. E. Groenslade", Mayor of Northcote, who was demobilised' at Trentham Military Camp yesterday, left by the Main Trunk express for Auckland.

Mr N. Alfred Nathan, who has hold the position of president of the Northern Club, Auckland, for the last two years, and who left on a visit to England yesterday, was entertained by the members of the club at a farewell luncheon party on Friday.

Mr B. E. Oillon has been appointed chief mechanical engineer of the New Zealand Hallways, in succession to Mi tf. H. Jackson, retired on superannuation. Mr Gillou has held the position of relieving locomotive engineer foi some years.

Captain O. H. Eoughnan, R.F.A., son of Mr C. A. Eoughnan (Palmerston North), has been admitted as a student to the Middle Temple. Captain Eoughnan has been serving on ;he Western front for nearly three years past, and was wounded some time ago.

At Rotorua, Dr A. S. Herbert was presented with a rug and a case of pipes by the staff of the Rotorua baths, before his departure for England. The presentation was made byMr A. E. Wilson, who eulogised Dr Herbert’s kindness and courtesy to the members of the staff;

Mr Thomas Graham, who died at Dunedin a few days ago, was one of the original engine-drivers on the DunedinPort Chalmers railway. He was born at West Calder, Scotland, and arrived in Dunedin by the ship William Davie, in August, 1872.' ‘ He continued in the railway service until he retired bn superannuation about twelve years ago.

Mr V. J. Thompson, formerly on the staff of the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, has' been transferred to the Palmerston North "Magistrate’s Court, and has now taken up his duties there. For the past seven months Mr Thompson has acted as clerk on the Police Commission, which recently concluded its sittings.

The term of appointment of Sir Francis Beil to the Legislative Council expiring on July 10th next, seven years from "the,.aatjc, of,,his, call, and it being possible, that His Excellency the Governor-General may not have returned to New Zealand from Samoa by that date. Sir Francis Bell has resigned his scat and been reappointed to the Council ■ ■ , ,

One of Auckland’s oldest residents, Mrs Eliza Green, died at the residence of her daughter (Airs K. H. Auger), Darnell, on Thursday last. Mrs Green, who was in her 83rd year, 'arrived at Auckland with her parents (DrumMajor and Mrs Dalton) by the sailing ship Minerva, in 1813, and, with the exception of eight years, which were spent at Mercury Bay, she resided in Auckland during the intervening 71 years. At an early ago she was married to the late Captain G. Bolton, and in 1868 she was married to Mr William Green, by whom she'ls survived. The latter, who is still relnarkably well at the age of 93, arrived in the province by the ship Westminster before his late wife, and till a few years ago followed the occupation of a bush contractor. Airs Green is also survived by 11 children, and a 'great number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

One of the pioneers of the Lauds Department, f Vfr. Alexander. .Barron, died at his residence, McDonald. Crescent,yesterday. Mr Barron was born at Oraigroy, Morayshire, in ic3y, ;vid, after completing his education, joined tiie staff or one oi ihe local banks. Mater, he decided to emigate to New Zealand. He arrived at Dunedin on the ■ ship Pladda, in 1861, and entered tho Civil Service the same year under the late Mr Arthur, afterwards Chief Surveyor of Otago. Wnen the Provincial Governments were abolished in 1876, Mr Barron came to Welliugioa with the then Surveyor-General, and was appointed as the latter’s first assistant in the task of reorganising the Survey Department. He leaves a widow, two daughters,, aiid three sons—Mis.. Robert Hopkirk, of Ashhurst, Miss Barron, Mr William Barron, of the Railway Department, Mr Harold Barron, of Lower Mutt, and Dr. Richard Barron, the latter of whom returned irqm active service a fortnight ago. The»interment, which will bo a private one, will take place at tho Sydney street Cemetery to-morrow.

Sapper Sinclair, eldest son of Mr and Mrs W. Sinclair, of Sydenham, returned by the Paparoa after three years’ active service He left... New, Zealand with the Thirteenth Reinforcement, and has seen considerable service in France. He was woundedonce, in October, 1017. He was with the division ‘in Germany. Mr and Mrs Sinclair have had tour other sons on active service. The second son. Rifleman A. Sinclair,- returned to tho Dominion recently by the Gorinthic, having beep..,away two and a-haJt years. He left with the Twenty-first Reinforcement/ and was with the 3rd Battalion Rifle Brigade in France. He was wounded twice, the last time in the fighting around Belgium. The third son, Sergeant W. Sinclair, who also left with the Twenty-first Reinforcement, was killed in action on October 3rd, 1017, tho night before the New Zealanders' 1 attack on Abraham Heights. He went over to France with-the 4th Brigade, being attached to the 3rd Auckland Battalion. Tho fourth son, Lieutenant F. Sinclair/ returned to Now Zealand by tho Tahiti some three months agv. He left with the Sixth Reinforcement, and saw service on Gallipoli, being present at the evacuation.-• ,He went to France with the first New Zealanders;' * ■ and was wounded on the Somme in 1916. Ho returned to France with the 3rd Canterbury Battalion, being with that unit until after Passchendaele, when he left for his commission. Returning to France again in April, 1018, he was gassed at Bapgume, (where , he. ..also won. the Military Cross), and was invalided to England and thence to New Zealand. The fifth and youngest son, Corporal A. E. Sinclair, left New Zealand with the Thirteenth Reinforcement, and went to Franco with the Divisional Machine-gun Company. He has been wounded twice, the last time seriously, as a result of which ho is still an in-patrent of the Christchurch Orthopaedic ‘Hospital. He returned ' to New .Zealand by the Maheno in October last.

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It is currently reported in Eltham that the Mayor (Mr O. IV. Tayler) will contest the Egmont seat at the general elections.

The Mayor of Wellington, Mr J. PLuke, who was at Carterton with the Industries Committee, returned to Wellington yesterday.

Mr W. H. L. Foster, headmaster of the Clyde quay School, who has been i confined to his homo through illness, is reported to be much improved in health. j

Dr H. W. Cleary, Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland, who has been in a private hospital for the last six weeks, was on Friday reported to be , considerably improved in health. -

Mr G. .A. Brabant, of Whakatane, has been notified . that his father. Judge H. W. Brabant, died at Napier | on Sunday, aged about eighty-five- j The deceased was well known in the . Bay’ of Plenty. He was the first Stipendiary’ Magistrate at'dpotiki, and later, in turn, Stipendiary Magistrate i for Tauranga, and Rotorua, Wanganui, ( and Auckland, and finally Napier, . where he retired ' into private life. As j a judge of the Native Lands Court. i he did much good work in settling the Maori question. Mrs Brabant prede- j ceased him at Napier by several years. j He leaves the ' following family: Messrs W. H. Brabant. Bank of New | Zealand, at Napier; R. A. Brabant, agent for the Northern Company, Whakatane; Frederick Brabant, Bank of Australia. Featherston; Xhoma* Brabant, farmer, Napier; Ernest Bra- j bant, farmer, Hawke’s Bay; Charles j Brabant, Bank of New South Wales; Geoffrey Brabant, Bank of Australasia; Miss E. Brabant, Napier; Mrs G. Richardson, Christchurch, and Mr« Tyres, Christchurch.

The death is announced of Captain Campbell Hepworth, C. 8., R.N..R., R.D. .He was a master mariner in the Union Company’s South African mail lino, and commodore of Milburn’s Port line of steamers. In 1896; when the late Mr James Huddart started the Canadian-Australian line, Captain Hepworth was appointed to the command of the steamer Warrimoo,_ and later he had charge of the Aorangi on the' Pacific run. Captain Hepworth gave most of his spare time to scientific subjects and meteorology and astronomy. He was also a keen observer of the currents, and published a book on ocean currents and also one on meteorology. Whilst at the meteorological office in England he wrote “A Seamen’s Handbook,” which is now used by almost every British officer afloat. He waa senior commander in the Royal Naval Reserve, and was made a C.B. between 1902 and 1904. When war broke out, though he was advanced in years, ha offered his services to the Admiralty, •■ho retained him in his position as Marine Superintendent, and ultimately consulted him with regard to the Board of Trade. Captain Hepworth died at his home at Ealing, London.