PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 October 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Sir Robert Stout, Chief Justice, reached the age of 78 years on Thursday.

- Messrs. S. G. Smith, R. Masters, and 0. J. Hawken, M.P.’s, left by the mail train yesterday morning for Wellington.

The Rev. J. M. Devenish, who for the past thirteen years has been living in Tasmania, will return to New Zealand this week and take up his residence in Auckland.

The death occurred yesterday at the Stratford Hospital of George Thomas Russell, who will be remembered as a popular member of the New Plymouth police force some years ago.

The death is reported of Mrs. Agnes Jane Bowie, Auroa, at the age of 66 years. There are two sons, John and Alexander, of Auroa, and one daughter, who resides in Scotland.

Dr. Elizabeth Gunn is at present in New Plymouth on her periodical examination of the school children attending the New Plymouth schools. She is accompanied by Nurse W. Wise.

Mr. lan Roy, son of Mr. J. B. Roy, of New Plymouth, has joined the office of Mr. M. Myers, K.C., who has just severed his long connection with the well-known Wellington firm of Bell, Gully, Myers and O’Leary.

Mr. D. Campbell, who has held the position of manager of the Mells (Mo.koia) Dairy Company for the past sixteen years, has been offered and has accepted a position with the Government in the dairy produce grading department. Mr. S. J. Tidswell. who has been em. ployed as buttermaker for the company for eight years will succeed Mr. Campbell.

The death occurred on Friday, at Ratanui. Mt. Bruce, of one of the earliest and most respected settlers of the Wairarapa,.. Mr. Hugh Campbell. Deceased, who was born in Antrim in 1-840, came to New Zealand in. 1841, in the ship “Lady Nugent.” He has been- a successful farmer in the Upper Opaki district for 64 years, going there at thq age of 18.

The death took place on Friday of Mr. W. G. Hotter, a very old settler of the Pa tea district. The deceased, who was born in Leicester, came to Patew some 43 years ago. He is survived by a widow and seven children, Messrs. W. J. Hotter (Opaku), T. H. Hotter (Manaia), E. G. Hotter (Wellington), J. G. Hotter (Wanganui), W. Hotter (Wellington), and Mrs. T. Leitch (Manakau), and Mrs. R. Close (Levin).

The friends of Mrs. Lydia Collis, of New Plymouth, will regret to learn of her death, which took place during Tuesday night. While not having enjoyed the ■best of health for some time, Mrs. Collis’ condition had not aroused the anxiety of members of her family, and the end came somewhat unexpectedly. Mrs. Collis was a daughter of the lats Mr. W. R. King, •and was born in New’ Plymouth nearly 69 years ago. She has one brother, Mr. Max. D. King, of Manurewa, and Mrs. Jonas, of Waitana, and the Misses King of New Plymouth are her sisters. It is nearly two years since her husband, the late Mr. W. A. Collis, died. Mrs. Collis, though a- prominent member of the Whiteley Memorial Church, lived a quiet and retiring life. She leaves*a family of four daughters and one son, the youngest son having been killed during the war. The daughters are Mrs. J. W. Ryan, Auckland, Mrs.’ J. Gray, Napier, Mrs. A. C. Lawrey, New Plymouth. The only surviving son is Air. -S. Collis, of Auckland. The sympathy of a wide circle of friends will be extended to the relatives in their bereavement.

In reference to Mrs. Julian Grande, the news of whose death has been lately received, The Post’s London correspondent says: People in New Zealand who glean information of articles sent from Geneva by Mrs. Julian Grande, will regret to hear that she has recently undergone a very serious operation, and for thia reason it will probably be some while before she is able to resume her enlightening contributions. Mrs. Grande is still in a nursing home in Switzerland, and her progress towards recovery has been /rather slow. Her strenuous life during the war greatly undermined her health, for throughout' its duration she worked from 14 to 16 hours a day, including Sundays. In addition to contributing to twenty-eight French, German and Italian newspaper periodicals she assisted her husband in editing and compiling three monthly illustrated papers, also in three languages, which were brought out for the Government. This work—voluntary—was undertaken to counteract German and other enemy propaganda. Inaeed, a wonderful compliment respecting her work was paid to her a few days ago by an eminent German official, who said: “We (Germans) felt and feared more the work of Mrs. Julian Grande during the war than all the propagandists in England or France.”