PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 21, 24 January 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr G. Pullen has been appointed town clerk at Inglewood in succession to Mr W. de G. Ogier.

Mr Samuel Odart, of 20 Whittaker Road, Upton Park, London, i n celebiating his 100th birthday recently, was entertained by his friends at a musical evening. Mr Odart, who was a silk weaver, and helped to weave the Coionation scarf for Queen Victoria, is in full possession of his taculties, except that he is a little deaf. At the gathering lie laughed and chatted gail_\ \\ ith his daughter, who is seventy years old. He drank gin and water, smoked a cigarette, and had some * oysters before leaving.

Mr Thomas Hamilton, a very old resident of New Zealand, died yesterday at his residence, Mountain Road south, at the age of 78. He had been ailing for about six months. Mr Hamilton was born in Nelson, and when four years old walked with his mother through the hush to Christchurch, the journey occupying six months. His people settled just outside Christchurch, where Mr Hamilton remained until ten years ago, when ho removed to Cardiff and later o Stratford. He leaves four daugh-

■PI'S and three sons, all the sons and me daughter being resident in the Stratford district.