ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 18854, 21 June 1920, Page 5

A BOUT PEOPLE

The arrival of Sir James Allen in Lon* don on June 18 is announced by a Press Association cable message which states that Sir Thomas Mackenzie welcomed him at Southampton.

It is announced by a Press Association message i.om Lon on that Sir lan Hamilton has sent an autographed copy of his ■Gallipoli diary to the Mitchell Library, Sydney, and that he has donated a sheaf of pages of the original manuscript. Captain T. M. Wilkes, who, when stationed in Invercargill befote the war, was a member of the Star Football Club and a Southland rep., arrived by the express from the north on Saturday night. Since his return from the war Captain Wilkes has been, stationed at Palmerston North and this is his first visit south.

Mr Thomas York, who died at his residence, Ferry road, Christchurch, last Tuesday, was born at New Norfolk, Tasmania, in 1837. Af er spending his early life on hie father’s farm, he arrived in Otago in the days of the gold rush, and was at Gabriel’s Gully. The deceased was connected with wool and stock interests in Otago and Canterbury, and carried on a wool-scouring business in Wooiston for many years. Later he became an enthusiastic orchardist, exporting largely to the Nor.h Island, as well cs devoting himself to sheep farming. His son was among the ifirst casualties of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade in Western Egypt in 1917.

The death of Mr William Dimmock, which occurred suddenly at his residence, Gabriel’s Gully, Lawrence, last week, removes another of the early se’tlers. The deceased, who was 67 years of age, was a native of Leighton-Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England, and came to New Zealand early in 1870. On arrival he went immediately to the Tuapeka district, settling in Wetherstones, where he worked for a time for Mr James Russell, In 1875 he married the eldest daughter of the late Mr Alan Mitchell, one of the early pioneers, and settled in Gabriel’s Gully, and followed his avocation d-s a carter till the opening of the LawrenceRoxburgh railway, when, having strained his heart, he had to relinquish work. He is survived by his wife and a family of eight daughters and six sons, and 31 grandchildren.