PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 February 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Miss 7my Kivell, of New Plymouth, is staying at Nottingham (rnvs'n London correspondent. Sir henry C'alway, Governor of Western Australia, arrived at Wellington on , fiiesdny. A London correspondent write; that amongst the latest arrivals there la Mr !'• II- Blackball, of Taranak'i. The Bishop of Wellington (Dr. Spruit), who was invited to attend the Umbcth Conference, Hurts that he wilt lie unable to visit England for the purpose, ' The l>v. c. 11. firant-Cowcn, formerly o. Ha vera, was instituted vienr of St MatthewV Church, Auckland, on files. <iny He will be entertained at a welcome .social thera to-morrow. ,C! "*, V»'illiam Sutherland, member for Argyil-liire, and formerly private secre■ar.v !o the Prime Minister (Mr. Lloyd C.owffo). lins bean appointed a Junior Loid ot the freasury and will probably succeed Captain Guest ns Chief Whip. Sir Win. Sutherland's appointment will necessitate a nnx election f ur his eon-s-i'iioncy. t| Messrs Arthur Morton (president) and "• K.rsyth (member), of the executive <ti the Xew Zealand Dairy AwoehUinn, left by he mail train yesterdav morning tor cllmgton. -where they will attend a conference of the Board of Agricullitre and representatives of the "meat and dairying industries called by the Iremicr to disems shipping matters. At its monthly meeting yesterday the Ta.-ar.uki Hospital and Cl'writable Ad Hoard approved of the following being ! accepted as probationers on the stufr of i the New Plymouth Hospital: Misses Wilton (Palmerston North), Kilbride (J.owgarth). Dew (Pahiatua), and Gibson (Xow Plymouth). Mr. William .Spencer Hampson, a wellknown resident of Nelson, was found dead in his office on Monday. Recently. i deceased had been under the cure of Dr. Rett, who was able tp give a certilieate as to the cause of death. The late Mr. Hampson had been a resident of Kelson for many year--. He was, at iha time of his death, the senior member of the City Council, on which body hj« had sat continuously for many years, and had never been beaten at the' eleelions. For many years he wan secretary of the Nelson Freezing Works, and at the {in- of his death was secretary to the Nelson Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Hampson leaves a widow and ft "vov.n-ii,. family of four sons and two daughters. 'Mr. Robert Mair, whose death took place in Whangarei last week at the ripe of Si) years, was one of the earliest pioneer settlers of the Whancarei district and was probably the oldest -New Zealand born European in New Zealand at the time of his death. His father, Gilbert Mair, was born at PeterI head Scotland, in 17!)!), eame first to New Zealand in .1820 aboard the Whaler New Zeahnder," and finally settled at Paihia, Bay of Islands, in* 1824, and later established a trading station at V\ ahapr i„ the year 1527 he married Elizabeth Gilbert Puckey, nt Sydney, • and brought her to the Bay of Islands. thus was the Mair family first established in New Zealand. ' Their eldest son, Robert Mair, was born at. Paihia, Bay of Tslands, in June 1830. The family migrated to Whangarei in 1848. In the year 1857 Gilbert Mair died at Whangarei. Upon Robert, at the early age of 27, devolved the responsibilities of providing for the maintenance of ft fam-Wi ily of 12 brothers and sisters, jnostly his juniors, in n country, at that time, " sparsely populated by a handful of Europeans amidst the turmoil of native tribes whose chief occupation Was war. After the vicissitudes which .usually fall to tho lot of pioneer settlors under' such conditions Robert Mair finally established tho home firmly and cnduringlV m Whangarei. Here he married M..E. lionlt in l?(il and is survived by his wife, four sons, two daughters and IS grandchil'll'A"