PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 September 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The Hons. R. K. Simpson and Parata, M'aL.C, have lieen granted leave of absence, on account of illness.

At the recent meeting of the Waitara Harbor Board a vote of condolence with Mr. W. T. Jennings in the loss of his son at the Dardanelles, was passed. •Mr. C. E. Blayney, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Blayney, left Hawera yesterday for Wellington, en route to England. He proposes to enter a military flying school.

Lance-Corporal N. Sustina and Trooper L. Sustins, who were killed in action at the Dardanelles, were sons of Mr. D. Sustins, of Carterton, wlio some years ago was on the staff of the New Plymouth Telegraph Office.

The following Jiavc been placed on the probationers' list at the New Plymouth Hospital: Miss Ruby M. Allisei (Wanganui), Miss Annie M. Robertson (Hawera) and Miss Myra Lansley (New. Plymouth). For the first time for 13 years Mr. C. M. Lepper was absent from a meeting of the Taranaki Hospital and Charitable Aid Board yesterday. Mr. Lepper is confined to his home by illness. The Rev. W, A. Butler, who has been acting-curate at St, Mary's, New Plymouth, for some time, has been offered and has accepted the charge of a paridt in Sussex, England. Mr. Butler will leave New Plymouth in a few weeke' time.

Mr. George E. Baker, general manager in New Zealand for Router's Telegram Company, has left Wellington on six months' furlough abroad. A presentation was made to ihim on Tuesday night, by Mr, T. M. Wilford, M.P., on behalf of the Central Club members, Mr. Baker, after visiting the Panama-Pacific Exposition, wiU go on to England. An old Auckland resident, Mr. Edward B. Kinloch, has passed away, at the age of eighty-two years. He arrived in New Zealand in the "fifties," and commenced practice as a veterinary surgeon. He was veterinary surgeon for various volunteer regiments and for the late Sir George Grey. He relinquished his practice some twenty years ago. The late Mr. Kintoeh Is survived by a family of six sons and Ave daughters. The death occurred on Monday morning, at the Thorndon Private Hospital, Wellington, of Mr, Edward Stirling Pearce, a member of the staff of Messrs. Levin and Co., Wellington. The deceased, who was a native of Manchester, was forty-six years of age, and had lived in Wellington for the past twenty! years. He was a prominent member of the Wellington Golf Club, and was at one time a hockey player of some ability.

Mr. Joseph Bridge, a member of the; staff of John-Chambers and Sons, Ltd., ! Wellington, passed away on Monday. The deceased,, who came to the Dominion from England about seven years ago, was a member of the Commercial Travellers' Club, and took a prominent part in the work carried out by that in-, stitution for the raising of money for the Wounded Soldiers' Fund. He was a cousin of Mr. J. W. Bridge, dental surgeon, formerly of Wellington, and now of Waveriey, and his genial nature gained him many friends. Mr. Frederick Lankshear, eldest son of Mr. W. J. Lankshear, of Wellington, is now occupying an important position in England. He received his early education in Wellington and developed a taste for .chemistry, becoming a brilliant student. He won the senior science scholar, ship for chemistry, and was subsequently lecturerer under (Professor Easterfield, until, on the recommendation of Sir Ernest Rutherford, he proceeded to Manchester, staying at Victoria University for ail years, during which time he took the Master of Science degree. On the outbreak of the war he at once volunteered for active service and was offered a commission, but could not satisfy the medical examiner, having had a serious illness in his childhood. This was a bitter disappointment to him, but he has now accepted the position of manager and chief chemist to a big firm of chemical manufacturers (H. N. Morris and Co., Ltd., of Openshaw, Manchester), who, under the control and direction of the War Oilice, are making materials for the high explosives by processes designed by Mr. Lankshear. The work there is of an important nature, and the premises are guarded by twenty-five soliders; no one can enter or leave without an order.