PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 242, 10 October 1913, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Dr W. W. Baxter, of Rotorua, is staying at the Grand Hotel, Auckland.

Dr Lapraik. of the Thames, is on a visit to Auckland, staying at the Central Hotel.

Mr. W. R. Wilson, of Auckland, left last night on a visit to the Ross Goldfields. Westland.

Mr. Carlton Hay left Auckland last evening for Wellington, en route for Australia on a visit.

Captain G. T. Kretschmar. of Auckland, has been awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Forces long-uervice medal.

Mr. R. Farrell, one of the Auckland delegates to the Reform League Conference returned to Auckland yesterday.

Mr and Mrs W. J. Broadfoot. of Te ICuiti, who have been on a visit to Auckland, left by the mid-da 3' Wellington express.

The Hon. C. C. Louisson. M.L.C., and Mrs Louisson are at present staying at Rotorua. on account of Mr Louisson's health.

'Mr Jack Flanagan, tide waiter in the Customs at Wellington, who has been appointed locker at Dunedin, was presented with a travelling bag.

Bisliop Geary is at present suffering from a slight attack of influenza, which prevented him from being present at the gathering of Old Colonists to-day.

Capt. G. P. Ewan, late chief-officer of the Cnion Co.'.s Corinna, has been appointed master of the Eastbourne (Wellington) Borough Council's ferry steamer Duchess.

Dr F. E. Clarke, founder of the CHiristion Endeavour movement, will visit New Zealand in February while on his way over to Sydney, where he will attend the fifth world convention.

Among the arrivals at the Star Hotel this morning were Mr and Mrs Harry Armitage, of Honolulu, who have been at Rotorua; Mr G. 11. Baggott, of Wanganui; and Mr J. 11. Hinton, of Christchurch.

Mr George Sutton, wjio was .born in Lincolnshire, and has been in New Zealand for over 40 years, died this week at Invercargill, Southland. He was a well-known breeder of Lincoln sheep in the district round about Winton.

Colonel E. S. Heard, who is in command of the defence forces during the absence of Major-General Godley, is in Auckland on a visit of inspection. He will leave for the Waikato to-morrow to look out suitable country for the staff ride that will take place in January next.

Messrs. S. J. Nathan, A. MoColl. and T. E. Whitton (secretary) have •been appointed delegates from the Auckland Provincial Association to the annual meeting of the Dominion Corporation in Wellington on October 31. A fourth delegate will be selected by the president (Mr. S. J. Harbutt).

Mr. W. R. Bloomfield was a passenger by the express last evening for Wellington, where he will represent the Auckland Local Bodies Association in trying to get some amendment of the law affecting the licensing of heavy traffic vehicles. He will also endeavour to get Newmarket made a stopping place for the Main Trunk express.

David Woolf, aged 79, who died at Hampden, Otago, was a Crimean War veteran. He enlisted in 1854 in the South Devonshire Regiment, now the 2nd Battalion Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, and on the outbreak of the war his regiment was one of the first ordered to the front. Woolf went through the whole of the war with his regiment, and on the declaration of peace his regiment was ordered to the Island of Cyprus. When the Indian Mutiny 'broke out his regiment received orders to proceed to India by march route across Egypt, whence they embarked for India. They were too late to take part in any action in the Indian Mutiny, and on its suppression were detailed to be stationed in India. Mr Woolf finished his soldiering in India, and returned to England early in 1864, after 10J years' service, which, with the exception of a few months on first joining, was spent on foreign and active service. A few years ago he migrated to New Zealand, settling down in Hampden, and up till a year ago had 'been in the employment of Mr Murcot, J.P., Hampden, whom he served for over 30 years.

Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Bagnall, of O'Rorke Street, Auckland, are to-day celebrating their golden wedding. They were married fifty years ago in Canada. Mr. Bagnall came to Auckland from Canada in 1804 with his father and brothers, and four years later he went down to the Thames to start in the timber business. In 1877 he and his father and brothers bought the Turua sawmills on the Waihou River, which the firm of Bagnall Brothers and Co. Ltd. still works. Mr. Bagnall is one of the wellknown public men of the province. He has always taken a keen interest in local government, and began his career in public life as far back as 1873, when he was elected to represent the Thames on the Auckland Provincial Council. Mr. Bagnall has served on the Thames County Council, the Thames Harbour Board, the Auckland Crown Lands Board, the Auckland City Council, the Charitable Aid Board, the Auckland Education Board, and many other bodies. Sir. Bagnall has presided as chairman over all the elective bodies on which he has sat, and he has also been chosen by the people of Auckland as their mayor. The positions Mr. Bagnall has held are evidence of the high esteem in which he is held by his fellow citizens. In private life he enjoys an extensive friendship, and he and Mrs. Bagnall were to-day the recipients of a large number « f *-\T gTa tu,ations on attaining the fiftieth anniversary of their Adding