PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10291, 28 May 1919, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Lance-Corporal It, E. Lucas, of Levin, who was a prisoner of -war for several months, returned to New Zealand by the Hirautaka.. - ~

Mr Harold Beauchamp (chairman of tlio Bank of New Zealand) and Miss Beauchamp will leave Wellington ' for London, v:a Panama, on June 17th.

Mr R. H. Ellis, managing director of Messrs Ellis and Manton, will leave New Zealand shortly by the Niagara for the United States and London, tie is to stay for some time in the States. .

Dr. J. E. W. Somerville, of Auckland, has been appointed a -member of the Medical Board under the Medical Practitioners Act, in place of the late Dr. W. C. W. McDowell.

The ' death occurred suddenly on Sunday; night at Christchurch of Mrs Isabella (Baterson, mother -of ..the Roy. J. Paterson, pastor of St, Paul 8 Presbyterian Church.; . , •

Mr, F. iPiranj: (chairman) and Mr. Al* , fred Fraser wilt represent the Wanganui Education Board at the conference , of educationboards, to be held in Wellington shortly before Parliament meet*.

In consequence of the break hr. the running bf ,the Lyttelton" ferry steamer Maori,\. Sir . James Allen, Aotmg-l’yimo Minister and' Minister, for Defence,* » not ekpected book in Wellington till-to-morrow' morning. . • <

Mr ;.©. F. -Dixon;; assistant-private secretary to the Minister for ..Defence, has been 'appointed to act as official reporter 1 during * tho Governor-General's visit to -Samoa and .the Pacific Islands. Mr Dixon left for - Auckland yesterday, to join thc Tutanekai. ,

Mr A. G. Kemp, who, two . .Tern it ago, was 'transferred to Invercargill from Greymouth, as district agent* of the .. Australian Mutua- Provident * Bopiety, hto.) received ’i notice of .transfer to (hamaraj' ■

' Mr F.: Langbsin,. who recently re* turned-from the'front," hee token up his duties as engineer • to. the (Hire Tunnel, in succession Dinnls, who has : been, transferred to, Taumatunui. ■ ■

The Bar. Bruce Todd, of Petone, «S Monday " evening,t was presented with, an oak; and silver inkstand by it* St. David’s Presbyterian Young Wometl’* Bible Glass, of which he had been teacher * for-Hi© past two years; . Mr Todd closes his pastorate in Petone at the end ,of this month.

Mr Harold Court (thM eon of Mr John' Court, a well-known Auckland draper) »' in an English hospital Buffering with congestion'of the lungs. He has bee? on active service for three end 1,-hr# years. He enlisted in Auckland, but being rejected by the medical board, he proceeded to England, and ’ offered •his services there,. and was accepted. The regiment to-which he was attached was sent to Salonika,

Intimation. has been received by Mr. -Hi-. S.“ Claughton, of} Nelson, that his . youngest .brother*.. Lieutenant Jdarold Clanghtbn, of the-Imperial -Forces, reported - mißsing some months ago by ■the British’war Office, must now bo accounted, amon'git -’ those “ Who ■ bay# paid the supreme, sacrifice. The late soldier,' who ' was - in practice as a lawyer -in Vancouver, enlisted soon after , the outbreak of war.

Mr Francis Buchanan Macindoe, a, welCKnbwh resident of the Auckland district, died at the, age' of e 6 year*. Mr Macindoe was born in Glasgow in 1853, and came toNew Zealand .in the sailing "ship William Davie, landing at ; Port Chalmers in T 873. He went drroo* to and,' with the exception of two • tripa home to Scotland, had lived there ever since. He was well known' ass a kauri- gum dealer, being a partner in the how defunct firm of P. Barber, and Co. .<

Messrs"‘J. ’ B." Murdoch (chairman of directors. Of' the - Joll Dairy Company) and H. D.”Forsyth (chairman.of. dirsctora of the Eltham Dairy Company) leave early in June for America and the' Continent, in the interests of ths dairying'industry, of Taranaki. During their- absence Mr A. Morton will ; succeed. Mr. Murdoch as chairman of directors -of the Egmont Box Company, and Mr, Fisher (Wairarapa) will succeed Mr Forsyth as ( chairman of directors of the New Zealand Kennet Company. ■: \

Mrs; C. A. Windsor, an did colonial born in Auckland *ixty-on« year* agio, anddaugnter of .the. late .well-known harbourmaster, Captain Ellis,. passed away % on« Saturday morning. Mr* .Windsor', had been ailing for- the past three years and in addition met with a,; serious,, accident ,near her. residence at Devohport some months ago. Har husband,'-the late Mr H. F. Windsor, a well-known dentist in Auckland, predeceased her eighteen years ago., tibe is survived by a son, Air Cecil .Windsor, of the Dovonport Ferry Company, and a daughter, Mrs Horner, both residing at Uevonpdrt. .

Amongst: recent arrivals in Dnnedm was Chaplain "P. L. Frost, formerly Methodist riiihisterat Abbotsford, who has returned from; the front, and M now on. holiday prior to going to bis new appointment as superintendent of the Lyttelton circuit., Mr Frost left New Zealand in,. 1916 with the 19th Reinforcement as sergeant in the Tunnelling Corp*,.,.and served for twelve months on-the Arras front. He w*a subsequently transferred to the infaa-, try, witk' the'rank of corporal, and was wounded on the Somme in August last a rah sent to. Wnlton-on-Thaines On ■recovery- he received “a chaplaincy ; m succession to the late Chaplain Alexander* Allen,

_ Mr and Airs James Ij. Hay returned to Wellington last night by the Rimutaka. Mr Hay was the pioneer New Zealand V.M.C.A. secretary, leaving with the Fourth Reinforcement by the-Willochra. in April of 1915. He organised 'the Y.M.C.A. work m the Esbokia Gardens, Cairo, where he made a host of friends. ■ When the New Zealand troops left Egypt for N ranee, Mr Hay was transferred to the division. 'He was organising secretary i* charge of the whol© of the New «!• land work with the division in Franc* until December last, when he was transferred to London os supervising «ecr*taxy, Mr Hay has a splendid record of service with the division. Mr* Hay Will be better remembered ‘by tho “diggers’' as Sister” Gunn, of tho Brookenburst Hospital. After a brief holiday Mr Hay will resume control of the Wellington branch df the Y.M.C.A,

. Ring up Stanton and Evans (phmu .Jl&Qli they will-do. the- rosy. j Open and’ ciosed-in cars at shortest; notice. Garage accommodation mid repair*. *