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Taranaki Daily News, 16 December 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A 'London cablegram states that English newspapers >.' ill no - , publish on Christmas Day nor boxing Day. A London cablegram reports that the King has approved of the grant of a silver meajil to the mercantile marine/ for War services. A message from The H<fMf UllflUl'J that the ex-Kajserin is scrion,'.[<!4<V a heart specialist from Berlin'is (oaw ing. Bishop Avorill, who Ijsis been paying his annual visit to the Xaranaki portion of the diocese, returns to Auckland tomorrow. A resolution of'sympathy with Mr. and Mrs E. Dockrill in the recent loss of their son was passed at the meeting of the ladies' committee of the Bed Cross Soeiety on Fridajr. The death, is announced at Huckworthy, House, Hofra'bridge, England, on November 20, of, 'Mr. Alexander Munro, who w&s for several years iv;-> dent at Elliot Road, New Plymouth. The death is announced from Napier of Mr. Peter Dinwiddle, managing director of the Hawke's Bay Herald, aged 81;' He was a Maori war veteran, and for over 60 years was connected with the Herald .v-Press Assoc. ' ' The friends of Sergeant Trehey, who contracted influenza, and was taken to tli'e New Plymouth Hospital, will be pleasen. to know that lie is making satisfactory progress. One of the victims of the recent influenza epidemic in.Auckland was Mr. E. V. Sale, the well-known cricketer. Mr. Sale represented province for several years, aftd was also a New Zealand representative player. Mr. Phillip Dean Wallis, an old resident of Masterton, is dead, aged 71. He had been a resident of the Wairarapa district for 46 years. A Press Association message from Dunedin records the death of Mr. Ernest J. Healey, B.Sc, agricultural instructor for the Otago Education Board, and previously headmaster at Pine Hill School. Mr. Thomas W. Poster, of Wyndham, president of-the South Island Dairy Assbt ciationj'who died a few days ago, was elected to a seat on the executive on June 4, 1913, and president on May 19, 1915, which position he had held ever since. At a meeting of the Investment Society on Friday afternoon, Mr. W. P. Brooking was appointed acting-chair-man owing to Mr. J. B. Connett, chairman, being- indisposed. A resolution of sympathy was' passed •with Mr- Connett in his illness and hoping for his speedy recovery.

Word has received by cable announcing the death from influenza of the Rev. J. B.' Suckling, Methodist missionary, recently of Caversham Methodist Church. The v deceased left New Zealand in April last for Nadroga, Fiji. His wife's sister, Miss May Cushon, of Invercargill, died recently in Dunedin of influenza. Mr. Suckling's death is a heavy lobb to the Methodist Church, as he was just commencing a missionary career which gave much promise. Another victim to the epidemic is Mr. Gordon Murray, of the Bank of New Zealand staff at Ohura. When members of the Ohura staff were all attacked by the influenza, Mr. Murray, although only on the threshold-of manhood, took charge, having previously worked in the department. 'He carried on until, at last attacked by the epidemic, a promising young life was terminated. About eighteen months ago Mr. Murray saved a boy froin drowning in the river at Greytown. ' The body cf Mrs. T. G. Russell, of C ristcVnrph,: wh't died of influenza in the United States, was brought to New Zealand by the Makura. Mrs. Russell was a daughter, of Dr. G. Pierce Baldwin, who at, one time was in charge of the Auckland Hospital, and who is now working as a military doctor in Auckland. She accoirpsnied her husband, who is a brother of the Hon. G. W. Russell, Minister of Public Health, on a business tripto America, and contracted the'disease while there.

Captain Guy Gaunt, who is well known in New Zealand, having visited several ports of the Dominion on men-o'-war at different periods, has been created Knight Commander of the Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George. Captain Guy Reginald Archer Gaunt, K.N., A.D.C., K.C.M.G., C.8., was born at Ballarat, Victoria, his father being Governor of the Goldfield3 and Judge of Victoria. He was educated at Melbourne Grammar School, and later joined the R.N.R. in 1895,-serv-ing in the flagship of the Channel Squadron. Captain Sir Guy Gaunt has served in many parts of the world, and on America's .entry, .into the big war became liaison .officer,, with the rank of commodore, (first class). Mr. Rank William Petre, who died at St. Clair, Dunedin, .this week, was born at Wellington in. 1847. He was a son of the Hon. Henry William Petre, .who was the second son of the eleventh Baron Petre, of Esses,, and chairman of the New Zealand Land Company. Mr. F. W. Petre was educated at a Catholic college in England,' and afterwards apprenticed to a naval architect. He engaged in practice in London until 1872, when he went to Otago. Three, years later, after superintending the construction of the Dun-edin-Clutha and' Blenheim-Picton lines, he set up in practice in Dunedin. He' built the first section of the Otago Central railway; Then he devoted himself to architecture/and in that connection had to do with the building of the Catholic Cathedral in Christchurch, St. Joseph's Cathedral in Dunedin, the Sacred Heart Basilica in Wellington, the Catholic Churclj in Oamaru, and several big commercial houses in Christchurch For some years he was Consular Agent for Italy. °