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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 September 1941, Page 4

PERSONAL

The Rev. M. G. Sullivan, vicar of St. John’s, Te Awamutu, has received advice that he is required to serve as chaplain of the forces in one of the mobilisation camps.

A police officer who had charge of several celebrated murder cases in Christchurch, Mr Thomas Gibson, died in the Christchurch Public Hospital yesterday, says a Press Association telegram. He was the senior inspector for the Dominion when he retired at the end of August as inspector in charge of the Invercargill district. He served 381 years in the police force. After a brief illness, Mr J. W. Muir, city electrical engineer, died suddenly at his home in Carlton Avenue, Palmerston North, last week. The late Mr Muir was born in Cole Street, Masterton. being a son of the late Mr James Muir, who was a well known wheelwright in Masterton many years ago. The late Mr J. W. Muir received his education at the Masterton (now Central) School. He leaves a widow and two sons and three daughters. He had held the position of city electrical engineer for 18 years, and for a period occupied the dual post of city electrical engineer and gas manager. The death occurred on Saturday of Mr Esmond Atkinson, of York Bay, elder son of the late Mr Tudor Atkinson, and a grandson of Sir Harry Atkinson, sometime Premier of New Zealand. He was born in 1888. and was educated at The Terrace School in Wellington, Wellington College and Wanganui College, afterward proceeding to Victoria College. He then joined the Department of Agriculture, and after many years’ service retired for reasons of health, and for the latter part of his life was a resident of York Bay. From his mother, a daughter of the Hon. J. C. Richmond, one of a notable group of New Zealand artists of a former generation, he inherited a talent for the fine arts.