PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 4 November 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mrs Young has received cable advice from Alexandria stating that Miss Bessie loung was among the survivors of No. 1 New Zealand Stationary Hospital, and is quite safe.

Mr John Hoskin died at New Plymouth yesterday, at the age of 70 years He' was a native of New PlySte^HooT tHe S6COnd S°n °f **»

Mr Frank D. Passmore, who died recently m London, aged 70 years, came out to New Zealand m the seventies to take control of the constructed railways in the fcorth Island when they were ready to be handed over by the ™ tractors. He introduced the method of keeping railway accounts which furnished the basis of the more elaborate system adopted in later years. When Mr Passmore returned to England he resumed practice as a consulting engineer. °