PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 111, 11 May 1915, Page 7

PERSONAL.

TI.,- lion. W, FT. Herrie*. Mnii-tcr for Mr .lolin Townlev ha« chairman of the" fiisbornt- Harbour Hoard. Dr. Constanrc Kro-t returned i o Auckland hv the Riverina this morninj» after a visit to Sydney and Mcl bourne. Mr. lind I'etersen. manager of the Cirafton Theatre, taki-s over the manapement ol the Kind's Theatre from .Monday next. Sir \V. P. Mitchell, of Nnpier. has been appointed secretary of the Hawkc's Hay Kmployers' Association, in tucee*sion to Mr "s. F. Wright. Mr. dames Livingstone, who has just died. n»ed 74. was considered one of the oldest settlers in Taranaki. He vvas in the Miiori war at the tights at Te Ngutu and Te Manu. Mr John (iriffiu, who died at the. residence of his son at Onevvhero last Saturday, at the a?e of SI years, wa.-, a Crimean War veteran. He vvas attached to the l'.lth Regiment of Foot. The deceased n siile.l for many years at T.iakau. Mr. .John Lamhie, of Kyle, o ne of the pioneer fanner? of the Ashburton district, vvho.-e death has just occurr.-d. wa.- born in Sc-otinnd in IS4O. and ar rived in Auckland in IsOD. His first farming experience in New Zealand vvas with Mr. John Wallace, at Klat Hush. (mahuliii. Mr. l.iimbic went, to Pant*"buiy ill IS(;:i. and took up land at HORSy Creek. Ten years later he bought 1500 acres nt the month of the Kakaia River. For n cuiisidprabli , period lit" was chairman of the South Rakiiiii Roilcl Roan. mom'ier of the Ashburton County Council for ■!', years, for four of which he olliciated as' chairman. Mr. Lamhie also served on the Harbour Board. Lvttelton. Agllhurton Hospital and Charitable Am Board, and a.s chairman of the Farmers' Cn'on.