PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 150, 20 November 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

■ Mr. A. H. Bcnge, of the National iiank of New Zealand, Eltham, has been trans 1 - ftrred to Takapau. A Tauranga message reports the death of Mr Denis Kennedy, aged 84, a Maori war veteran. He took part in the Gate Pa fight, and had resided there ever since. He was through the Indian Mutiny and the Crimean War. (Mr, Charles Zaehariah, Wellington manager for the Public Trust Office, and at present also acting Official Assignee, has received notice of his promotion to IDunedin as Deputy Public Trustee and | Official Assignee for Otago. Mr. Zachariah leaves Wellington almost imme'diately to taike up his new duties.

An old resident of Auckland, Mr. I Frederick J'ahez Bennett passed away on :'Saturday. He arrived in Auckland in 1863 iby the ship Queen of the Mersey j from England. The Maori war was in i progress and he saw active service as a member of the New Zealand militia. The late Mr. Bennett took a great interest in church matters, and for some i years was an elder of St. Andrew's I Church and superintendent of the SunI day school. He was also, an elder of rSt. Stephen's Ohurch, Ponsonby. Ho was one of tho founders of the Blind I Institute, in PlarneU. He left a family of six; sons and five daughters.

In conversation with the Stratford j Post, Mi-. T. C. Fookes, who has just rei turned from a visit to England, said imetDr iOarbery, wiho was most enthusiastic about going to the fronthe was so determined to get to Belgium that it seemed the one object of his life. On the outbreak of war toe at once cancelled his return steamer ticket. It was some tune before he was selected to go to the front, and while waiting for the word from the authorities, so impatient was he, that he spoke of enlisting in the raiilcs in order to get to the firing line. Dr. Carbery was the most enthusiastic person in reference to the war that Mr. Fookes met on his travels.