PERSONAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 January 1939, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr H. Page, who has been on a visit to Kaituna, has returned to Palmerston North.

The death took place in the Greytown Hospital of Mi - Patrick Sullivan, of the Pihautea Soldiers’ Settlement, and a member of the Returned Soldiers’ Association. He was engaged in wool-pressing and while hot sat in a draught. The chill affected him seriously, and he was admitted to hospital on Sunday night. The late Mr Sullivan, who was 45 years of age, was formerly a prominent member of the Featherston Football Club. The Rev Dr R. C. Gillie, of London and Bath, a prominent Free Church Jeader, will arrive at Wellington with Mrs Gillie by the Tamaroa on January 26. They will spend a few days in Wellington before going on to Auckland, where JDr Gillie will supply the pulpit at St David’s Church during the absence in Britain of the Rev W. Bower Black. Mr and Mrs Black will leave by the Awatea on January 17. They expect to be away for about eight months.

There was a large cortege at the funeral of the late Mrs Kjar, which look place at the Masterton Cemetery yesterday afternoon. Services were conducted at the house and graveside by the Rev T. V. Pearson. The pallbearers were Messrs J. Isacsen (brother), Hadley, J. Millward, J. Evernden (sons-in-law) and R. and T. Hadley (grandsons). The many floral tributes received testified to the esteem in which the late Mrs Kjar was held.

The death occurred suddenly at his residence, Roslyn. Dunedin, yesterday, of Mr Robert Sheriff Black, wellknown in business life in Dunedin, and an ex-mayor of the city. From 1.906 onward Mr Black was a prominent figure in public life, and he was in the forefront of many movements for the advancement of Dunedin. He was born in Liverpool in 1868, and arrived at Melbourne in 1884, joining the service of the Colonial Bank of Australasia, after having run away from his Scottish home at the age of 15. From then onward he had to fight his own way in the world. Mr Black was married twice, and is survived by his widow. There were two sons and two daughters of the first marriage.