PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 59, 10 March 1921, Page 7

PERSONAL.

I Mr. I"'. Holding, chief electrical engineer for tlie I ommonwealth (lovernmeiit. I.s vUiting Neu Zealan !. Mr. fl-.-orge l-'iiiii, prior (o leaving Khandallah to reside in Au-klund. was" farewillcd hy the local howling club. Mr. K. B. Spink-, one of th- foundermembers of tlie Auckland Au'umohile Association, '.a- re-igned hi- po-iiion as committeeman owing to pre-s of | and last night the committee passed him : a vote of thank- for hi- past services. j Captain .lo'rin Burns, second son of Sir !-lames Hums, principal of the firm of I I.urns. I'iiilp and < 0.. Ltd.. died recently lat ( ootamundra, aged 35 years. During j the war tie was A.D.C. to Heneral Walker at (Jallipoli. Death was due to complications arising out of illness contracted on j war ser\ ice. ! Born, baptised, confirmed, married and buried in the one village is tlie record of an old and respected Otahuhu resident '■ who has ju-t |.as-ed away — Mr-. Elizallieth Victoria Hair. Siie m- the daughter •of the late Sergeant-Major John Mci Anulty. who arrived in Auckland in the ; year 1*47 with sixty soldier pensioners tij j form the village id' Otahuhu. one of the 1 cordon of pen-loner settlements with 'stockades which wire established acrosI the isthmu- to form a protection against ! the Waikato Maoris. Mrs. Hair was : sixty-six years of age. •