PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 February 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. J. J. O’Shea,, stationmac.er at New Plymouth, returned from the Auckland district last night after a holiday trip. A Wellington telegram says the appointment of the Hon. John Barr to the Legislative Council was gazetted yesterdav.

Mr. J. J. Gaustad, who came from Norway thirty years ago, and conducted the business of a watchmaker and jeweller in Palmerston North, has died at the age of 72 years. Miss Barr has forwarded to the Board of Governors her resignation as -principal of the New Plymouth Girls’ High School. Miss Barr has accepted a similar position at the lona Girls’ College, Havelock North. The Hon. J. G. Coates, Minister for Public Works, spent a few minutes each in Geraldine, Temuka, and Timaru yesterday on his way south. He called at the Washdyke aerodrome and had a flight over Timaru. After receiving a welcome at Timaru Mr. Coates went on to Waimate.—Press Association.

Mr. Frank Burgess, a brother of Mr. C. H. Burgess, of New Plymouth, who died at Thursday Island on Tuesday, left Auckland last June for China and Japan on a buying commission for Messrs. Macky, Logan and Caldwell, and on the return voyage became 'ill with typhoid and was put ashore at Thursday Island. He was accompanied by his wife, his family (which cons—tis of three sons and one daughter) remaining in Auckland. He was a son of the late Captain Burgess, of North Shore, and is survived by five brothers—Messrs. E. Burgess, lately returned for the Auckland Harbor Board. F. J. Burgess, S.M., A Burgess, of Messrs. Sajgood. Son ami Ewen, C. H. Burgess, New Plymouth, and G. Burgess, formerly manage’ oi the Bank of New Zealand at Hawera.

The death last week of Mr. John Carlson, of lower Hunter Road, removed a respected and worthy settler. He was almost the last of the early pioneers who made a settlement on what was known as the Ngaere block. The only settler to survive him (the Argus thinks) is Mrs. Brisboe, senr. The late iVlr. Carlson was born in Sweden in 1847, and emigrated to Australia in 1871. He tried his luck at the famous Palmer diggings at the outbreak of the rush. He afterwards followed the occupation of ploughman, and worked for some years at that on sugar plantations in Queensland. Eventually he to come to New Zealand, and for several years he was ploughman on a Canterbury station. He came to Taranaki in 1881, and remained here for the rest of his life, excepting {Tie time occupied-, in a visit to his homeland in 1903, When he came to the Eltham district he settled on land on the Lower Hunter Road and made a home right in the. midst of a dense forest. Mr. Carlson is survived by a grown-up family of five sons and two daughters, and four of his sons fought in the European war.