PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 3 February 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr. R. H. Nolan, of Hawera, is at present visiting New Plymouth. Mr. J. G. L. Hewitt, S.M., left Auckland on Monday by the Tahiti to take up duty as Government Residential Commissioner in the Cook Group. Mr. J. Blair Mason, marine engineer, was engaged at the week-end in making a nautical survey of the Tauranga harbor.

Mr. Justice IJosking will preside at the quarterly of the Supreme Court at New Plymouth, which open next Tuesday.

Among visiting racehorse owners pres ent at the Taranaki autumn meeting are Messrs. W. G. Stead (Hawke’s Bay) and F. N. Dillon (Marlborough), Mr. W. A. Beddoe, Canadian Trade Commissioner in New Zealand, has arrived in New- Plymouth from Auckland .and will remain here until the end of the week. He is accompanied by Mrs. Beddoe.

Word was received in New Plymouth yesterday that Mr. Frank Burgess, of Messrs. Macky, Logan and Co., Auckland, and a brother of Mr. C. H. Burgess, New Plymouth, died on the Ist fast. at Thursday Island, while returning from a business visit to Japan. A very pleasant little function took place at Mr. Allen den’s boardinghouse at Elt'ham, in honor of Miss Staveley and Mr. A. Chrystall, who shortly leave for Ohakune >to be married (says the Argus). Mr. F. Moore on behalf of those, present, expressed every good wish for the future of both Miss Staveiey and Mr. Chrystall, and presented the former with a set of stainless cutlery. Misses S. R‘. and M. Hickey, teachers at the Opunake school, have been spending their holidays in Sydney, and are amongst those detained in Australia owing to the stewards’ strike (writes a correspondent.) It is expected that they will be returning about the middle of February. The Misses Leach, of •Inglewood, have arrived to temporarily fill the positions on -the teaching staff. The death took place at the Sanatorium, Wiaipukurau, on Tuesday, oT Private Samuel Floyd, s'on of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd, of Norfolk Street,, Pa-tea, and formerly of Inglewood. Th deceased served with the New Zealand Forces on I the Western front, where he was badly gassed, and afterwards taken prisoner by the Germans, who kept him working in the mines for some considerable time. The hardships and privations he suffered whilst in the hands of the Huns were responsible for the illness which terminated in. his death.

An old colonist, Mr. George Henry Palmer, aged 61, died at his residence, Auckland, on Monday, after a long illness. He was born in the Nelson district -n 1860, his father, Mr. Charles Palmer halving settled in Waimea West in 1<845, after visiting New Zealand as a mate- in the merchant service. The Intel Mr. Palmer went to Auckland in 1896. and-has latterly been engaged as clerk of works to the Bank New Zea.I;.nd. Previously he was a builder and contractor. In his early days Mr. Palmer was well known as a rifleman. He organised the Karori Rifle Club in Wei- • i.ngion, was the first captain, and was made a life member. The French Consul ift Wellington, Mr G. R. Bendall, has been advised by the French Government of the following awards to New Zealanders in Wellington of the Medaille de la Reconnaissance Francaise: His Worship the Mayor of Wellington (Mr. J. P. Luke, M.P.); Captain Malo de Rune Barclay; Captain F. C. 'Gentry; and Mr. John Hutcheson. The medal referred to is given in recognition of the assistance and entertainment of Tahitian, and other French soldiers during their sojourn in Wellington from time to time, and for other works rendered by those named in support of the French cause, hud the befriending of Frenchmen. Particular mention is made of Captain Barclay’s efforts in organising the movement known as “The Tribute to France,’’ the funds from which .were distributed among French war widows and orphans and wounded French soldiers.

A New Zealander, Mr. H. R. Seddon, B.V.Sc., who is lecturer on Pathology at the Veterinary College, Melbourne University, has been granted the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Science, largely as the outcome of valuable original research. Dr. Seddon is a native of Bay of Plenty,, where . his father was a well-known stock dealer. He joined the Agricultural Department as a cadet in Wanganui, and began his scientific training in the department’s laboratory at Wallaceville, then controlled by Dr. Gilruth. When the latter was appointed Professor of Veterinary Science, etc., at Melbourne University, Dr. Seddon was one of his first students. With the exception of service at the front, Dr. Seddon has been on the teaching staff of the Melbourne University since 'he qualified in 1912, and has now obtained the highest degree in his profession which the university can grant.