PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 July 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The Rev. W. J. Elliott has returned to New Plymouth from Auckland.

A Sydney cablegram reports the death of the Rev. Dr. Druitt, Anglican Bishop of Grafton.

The death of Mr. J. T. Julian, senior member of the firm of Julian and Son, Ltd., contractors, occurred in Auckland yesterday morning. . At the annual meeting of the Okato Dairy Company yesterday a vote of sympathy was passed with the relatives of the late Mr. W. E. Percival, of Inglewood

Mr. L. B. Siedle, one of the members of the Springbok team, who has been an inmate of a nursing home in Auckland, suffering from an injury to the leg. received in Sydney, has now arrived in Wellington. The injured limb has now almost recovered.

The deJth occurred yesterday of Mr. Knox Gilmer, rhe well known dental surgeon of' Wellington. He was a son of the late Mr. Hamilton Gilmer, and was born in Greymouth in 1878. He married in 1906 a daughter of the late Right Hon. R. J. Soddon and he leaves two children, two brothers (Dr. Hamilton Gilmer and Mr. S. Gilmer) and two sisters.

Captain A. Lockie, who is in command of the missing Canastota, was an old Auckland boy, whose father was in the New Zealand Customs Department. Captain Lockie was for some time a mate in the Union Steam Ship Company. He was captain of the pilot boat for the Auckland Harbor Board, and subsequently captain of the Lyman D. Foster on her first voyage. This vessel was afterwards lost at sea. Shortly after relinquishing this command Captain Lockie went to America.

i I'he late Mr. Amin N. Burke, whose death occurred on Saturday night, wa? born at Masehera, near Beyrout, in Syria, where he lived for many years. He came out to Australia in 1894, and after a few years’ residence there came to New Zealand and. finally settled in. Taranaki some twenty years ago. He took up land in the Omata district and engaged in farming up to a few years ago, when he sold out and up to the time of his death resided in New Plymouth. He is survived by his widow and a grown-up family of six, three sons, Mr. J. Burke (of Barrett Road), and Messrs. A. A. and B. Burke, and three daughters, Mrs. .Zemb’a, Mrs. Lahood and Miss Burke (of New Plymouth). The interment took place at the Te Henui cemetery on Tuesday, the Rev. Mr. Nixon conducting the service. Feeling reference to the death of Mr. W. E. Percival, of Inglewood, was made at the annual meeting of shareholders of the Waitara-Taranaki Dairy Company yesterday. Mr. G. V. Tate, ’in moving a vote of condolence with the deceased’s relatives, said it was with deep regret, as an old member of the company, that he had learned of Mr. Percival’s’ death. Mr. Percival had been a supplier, and, later, auditor to the company, was very prominent in the dairy industry and highly esteemed in private and business life. The motion was spoken to by Messrs. Hugh Baily (secretary), L. de Launay, P. T. Peterson, and J. H. Smith (chairman) and was carried in the customary manner by the meeting. Mr. H. Belshaw, who was formerly science master on the staff pf the Hawera Technical’ High School, left yesterday for Grey mouth, where he will take up his duties as lecturer on economics with the university extension classes in connection with Canterbury College. His successor at the Technical High School is Mr. C. S. Sloeombe, B.Sc., who has been research officer in the State Forest" Department, Auckland, was formerly relieving master at Lincoln Agricultural College, and science master at Timaru Boys’ High School. Mr. Sloeombe will have charge of |he school’s agricultural department.