PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 March 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. F. S. Johns, of New Plymouth, who lias been on a holiday at the Great Barrier and Rotorua, returned on Tuesday evening.

The death took place at the Wanganui hospital on Saturday last of Mr. John Moore, a very old resident of the Patea district, in which he has resided for the past 35 years. The deceased was a native of Ireland. Dr. D. Steven, medical superintendent of the Stratford hospital, has been granted twelve months’ furlough by the Stratford Hospital Board to enable him to pay a visit to Great Britain. During his absence Dr. Sowerby, who until recently was resident medical officer at the Apia hospital, Samoa, will act as superintendent of the hospital. Mr. T. T. King, lately chief postmaster at Dunedin, now retired on superannuation, is visiting Auckland. Mr. King, in his young days, was in the centre of the Taranaki, Waitara and Kawjiia fighting. For 25 years- he was postmaster at Gore, and was then made sub-inspector of Post and Telegraph offices throughout New Zealand. Captain John Burns, second son of Sir James Burns, principal of the firm of Burns, Philp, and Co., Ltd., died at his residence, Shaftesbury, Cootamundra, recently in his 35th year. Captain Burns was A.D.C. to General Walker at Gallipoli. His death was due to complications arising out of illness contracted when on war service.

The death of Mr. Henry Divehall at Toko on Saturday last recalls the early days of Stratford, where the name Divehall was and still is very well known. Forty years or mote ago the father of Mr. Henry Divehall was employed by the Railway Department on the permanent way, living in a cottage alongside the line south of Patea. Both he and Mrs-. Divehall, senior, are still living in New Plymouth. Some years ago Mr. Henry Divehall met with a motoring accident, as a result of which he was subject to sudden seizures, during one of. which he passed on Saturday. He was well known in the Stratford district as a builder, and when a young man was a fine athlete and footballer. One of his sons, Claude, was killed in the war, and there are left, besides the aged parents and the widow, the following members of the family to mourn their loss: Messrs. Harry and Albert (Palmerston North), Mrs. Brookes (New Plymouth, now in Christchurch), Mrs. Fred Askew (Cardiff), Mrs. P. Askew (Qtfjdhirst), Miss Laura (Okaiawa), Miss Queenie (Toko), Miss Hazel (Toko) and Joyce find Ivan.