PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 68, 20 March 1916, Page 6

PERSONAL.

c . | c I r Mr. H. Dearsley was a passenger for i, Wellington by last evening's express. r The Right Hon. W. F. Massey, Prime 5 Minister, arranged to open the new post • office at Patumahoe this afternoon. Mr. Justice Cooper has gone to r Wellington to attend a sitting of the i Court of Appeal. t Sir -Joseph Ward. Postmaster-Gcncrni, *• opened the new pc*t office at Mamnku D on Saturday. | Lieut.-Colonel T. R. Inglis, N.Z.M.C., who has been on a week-end visit to . Auckland, returned to l'almerstou |. - .North today. > Mr. Denniston S. K. Miller, governor I ' o: the Commonwealth Ban!;, arrived j from Wellington yesterday morning, and j leaves for Sydney to-morrow. ■ Mr. H. W. Northcroft. late Resident! . I Commissioner at Cook Islands, is no v , convalescent after a somewhat serious i , operation. 1 Mr. A. M. Johnson, who died recently i at Christchurch. hatched the first trout ! I introduced into New Zealand by the • Canterbury Acclimatisation Society. Messrs. Herbert C Lindcr and Frank S. Linder, who served their time at ' Auckland with A. and T. Burt. Ltd., have enlisted for the front at Sydney. . The Hon. Dr. R. McNab. Minister for , Justice and Marine, arrived from Te , Aroha on Saturday evening. To-day ' • and to-morrow will be spent inspectin" . the lower reaches of the Waikato. ' Captain John Duncan Grant. V.C., who has been wounded in Mesopotam.a, ' served as a 6taff officer to the N.Z. | Military Forces in 1911. He won his : V.C. in the expedition to Tibet in 11103-4. when he was twice wounded. 1 Captain Grant belongs to the Ghurka rifles. At the advanced age of 04 years, Mrs ' , David Shaw, sen., has just died at ! the residence of her daughter, Mre. George Walker of Ardmore. Mr. and ' ! Mrs. Shaw arrived in Auckland from Scotland in the ship Viola, over 51 years ' ago. They settled at Otau on the banks ! i of the Wairoa South River. The Thames goldfields attracted them for a time, ' from which place they settled in the Waikato. Deceased had five sons and ! one daughter, and there are 45 grand- ' children a3 well as S9 great-grand- ' children. In all there are 137 descend- ' ants alive in New Zealand. s i