PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 October 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. A. H. Johnstone, barrister and solicitor of Auckland, and formerly of New Plymouth, has returned from a visit to Canada and the United States.

Mr. W. Grounds, chairman of the committee which drafted the dairy produce control scheme, arrived in New Plymouth by the mail train last nignt. This morning he will address a meeting of representatives of the dairy factories. Mr. Grounds is accompanied by Mr. 1. C, Brash, secretary of the committee. Mr. Horatio Nelson Bagnall, a wellknown figure in the public life of Auckland, died at his residence, Herne Bay. Deceased, who was 65 years of age, was a son of the late Hon. G. W. Bagnall, and for ten years was a member of the Auckland City Council, besides other public bodies.

One of the oldest and most widelyknown settiers of the native race in the Wairarapa—Mr. Charles Faulkner —who has resided at Papawai for a long time, died at the Greytown hospital. Mr. Faulkner was born at Lower Hutt 72 years ago. and belonged to the Ngatikahungu tribe. Mr. George Crockett, of Riccarton, who celebrated his ninety-fifth birthday on Sunday, was born in Scotland on October 1, 1827. Mr. Crockett arrived in Dunedin from Melbourne in 1864. He occupied the position of second master of the South Dunedin School and master of the Taieri School until 1874, when he visited Scotland, returning to New Zealand in 1876.

An early colonist, Mr. Fredric Thomas Stokes, died at Auckland on Tuesday at the age of 72. He was born in California and came to Auckland when a child, residing there ever since. For about 20 years he was in the employ of Messrs. E. Porter and Co., ironmongers, afterwards entering into partnership with Messrs. F. and W. Fowler, brassfounders and manufacturers, from which business he retired about five years ago.

Mr. R. a A. Young, who died in Auckland last week in his 81st year, was for 15 years engineer to the Westport Harbor" Board. He was born at Camberwell, London, and in 1863 emigrated to New Zealand with his brother, the late Mr. H. W. Young, of Greymouth. From 1878 to 1882 the brothers were engineers to the Westport Coal Company, and designed the Denniston incline and the Conn’s Creek railway. Mr. H. A. Young, S.M. at Hamilton, is a son.