PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10295, 2 June 1919, Page 3

PERSONALIA

The Hon! T. M. Milford, .Minister for Justice, is paying a visit to Rotorua,

Commissioner Howard, who is visiting the Dominion in connection with the Salvation Army . reorganisation scheme, was tendered a civic welcome at Auckland on Saturday by the Slayer.

Slajor D. J. Swcetzer. camp commandant at Treutham, having , been granted leave of absence, LieutenantColonel D. Blair, D. 5.0., M.C., N.Z. 5.0., assumed the duties of actingcamp commandant yesterday.

Captain A. A. Luckman, Trentham camp adjutant and officer in charge ot detention barracks, having been granted leave of absence. Lieutenant 1:. G. Goss, N.Z.S.C., has assumed those duties for the time being.

Tha Hon. Dr Pomare, Minister-in-Charga of tho Cook Islands Administration, left for the Cook Islands by tho Government steamer Tutanekai last week. At Rarotonga the GovernorGeneral and tho Countess of Liverpool will "join the steamer, by which they will make a tour of the Pacific islands.

A cable states that- Lieutenant-Colonel H. J. McLean left for New Zealand by to Mauuganui on May I7th. Colonel McLean; after being in charge of field ambulances in France and Germany ana Godford Hospital, in England, was appointed A.D.M.S. during the demobiusadon of New Zealand troops in Germany.: ■

Two representatives of the students of Canterbury College waited on tha Mayor of Christchurch (Dr. H. T. J. Thacker. M.P.) and asked for permission for the holding of a procession through the City in connection with tha college's “capping day” ceremonies. it was remarked, in the course of the interview, that Dr Thacker ’is*the first graduate of Canterbury College to heiome Mayor ot Christchurch, and also the first “old hoy” of Christchurch Boys’ High School to attain that position.

Ror.- Canon,, T.'B. Taylor baa resigned from the clerical staff of the Kelson diocese, in'consequence of the unsatisfactory state of his health unfitting him to take charge of a parish. He has accepted a position as assistant to the Hev. H. Watson, at St. Peter's, Wellington, where he will undertake special work among Then and boys. The Bishop of Nelson has accepted his resignation with regret, and has expressoil tho hope that some day he will ho strong enough to return to that 'diocese.

News has been recoined from Mel- 1 bourne of the death of Mr Charlie Tay- ’ Ipr, manager of ilio Taylor-Carringtou Dramatic Company, which wfts hastened by his son’s death from influcnnU. i A slight paralytic stroke was followed j by a more serious one, which had » ..I Kial result. Mr Taylor _ was Well ' cvj-n. in New Zealand. He is survived by three daughters, one of whom is Mr» i I'. Hdnningham, pianiste at the West End Pictures, Auckland.

Mr' John Hodge, of Greytown. has received news of tho death of his brother , Thomas, which occurred at Dunmoio, Australia, after i. sevfere. attack of infliietiea. The deceased, who was tho . third son of the late Mr John Hodge, • vrns in his 59t»li yo«ir t and vidow and young family. His relatives are , Mr J. Hodge (Greytown). Mrs Wonsen (ftlenmorvGji), Mrs Mitchell (GreyWiwn). i sfrs Quin (Greytown), and Mi's McGirr (Wellington). The deceased, was well known an dhighly respected throughout the Wairarapa. ,

Operations on the waterfront were , suspended on Saturday in order to al- ; low watersiders to attend the fungal , of their late comrade, Waldemar Lenin. Who was killed on the. steamer , Baden Powell on Thursday.. Watersid- j ors and seamen were- well -represented in the cortege, which also included the < .Wellington Waterside Workers’ Band j and members of the executive of the Waterside ' Workers’ Union. Among those who attended wero Mr F. Hill, i manager of the Wellington Steamship Company, Captain- Jackson, of the j Baden Powell, and the stevedore, Mr i Guthrie. The service at the gravefeid© at Karori cemetery was conducted ; by the Rev. G. E. Hales. j

After a severe illness lasting for four months Mr ..Edward Anderson, an old j Wellington identity, passed away at ! his home in Kelburn yesterday morn- , ing. .The late Mr Anderson was born j at Kingston, Jamaica, in 1845,_ and came to New Zealand in the ship Pil- j grim when three years of age. A year 1 later his father started the business ■ in Willis street until recently known ■ es'Edward Anderson and. Co., Ltd. The .; deceased had a long connection with St. Peter’s Church, representing the parish \ On the .Diocesan Synod for nearly 40• t years. • He was also churchwarden of f the same parish for 21 years. The late Mr Anderson had been in failing health 1 for eome - years, and during the last , four months. he was entirely confined 1 te-Ws hed.-:- -HftHeavcs ar widow (a ; daughter of the late Air W’. N. Mill- ’. ward) and four sons, Messrs "‘Mill- j ward,'" Norman, Selwyn and Maurice ! Anderson, ■ and one daughter, ■ Aliss Helen Anderson. Prior to the funeral, ■which takes place to-day, there will bo ; a service at St. ..Peter’s Church at 1.30 p.m. ; The interment will be made at j the -Karori -cemeteixl ’ I

Mr-Robert Gardner,'of Terraco End, J Palmerston North, who died" last week, 1 was born at .Greenock, Scotland, in K 43, and ns n young man went out to | Queensland, where he landed in 1862, going into .business .in Rockhampton. He was associated with some of the | earliest mining ventures in-Anstralla, j and was one of the pioneers of the l«.nd."-In--1876-he came to.Neir Zo«- ' land, spd was in the ironmongery trnsiness ln Wellington, and was. for many ' Tear# on the directorate of -the Pc tone i Woollen Mills. „ h-1887 ho embarked ■ in the flaxmilling industry, operating , first at Foxton and later* at Ktnka (near Koputaroa). He was appointed a member of the. Flax Commission, , and went--through; the Dominion twice j in connection wtjh; improvements for the preparation of the fibre for mars bet.' Mr'Gardner was also interested in Farming pursuits, in which ho embark- . e’d in 1883, first at Piaka and after- ; wards at Tokomnru, and more recent- ; ly near Stratford. He went to reside ! in Palmerston North first in 1885, .and ! acted as Government Land Valuer I from 1597. until he was superannuated i in 1903. He is survived by his'widow, and a .family .of five sons., and seven j flajighters* - -,

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