PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 87, 7 January 1926, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Sir George Richardson, Administrator of Samoa, who, with Miss Richardson is visiting Dunedin, is expected l back in Wellington on Monday next. Mr. Arthur P. Harper, secretary of the Welfare League, is on a visit to Hokitika and the West Coast.

Mr C. Renn, of Christchurch, lias decided not to stand for the position of unions! assessor on the Arbitration Court.

Dr and Mrs. Coldicutt were passengers by the express train from Auckland yesterday.

Mr. E. W. Kane, who returned, to Wellington on Tuesday with Mrs. Kane after a trip to Auckland, has had to enter the Lister Private Hospital to undergo an operation.

At the age of 83 years, Mr. Patrick Galvin passed away yesterday, respected by all who knew him. Ihe late Mr. Galvin was born in Ireland and came out to Victoria at the time of the great gold rush, which luie also brought him, with so many others to Otago when gold was discovered in that province, brom there he went to the West Coast, participating in the gold rush to Hokitika. Mr. Galvin initiated the first coach and wagon service between Greymoutb and Reefton, and held a carrying con. tract between the two towns before the railway started, for some twenty, one years. Of a kindly and tolerant nature, always ready to do his fellow man a good turn, Mr. Galvin was held in the highest esteem, and his death will be widely lamented. He leaves a widow, one son (Mr. P. Galvin , and two daughters (Mrs. Hissen and Miss E. Galvin), all of Wellington.

A Reuter message from London states that Canon H. D. Burton, who was a chaplain of the New Zealand Forces in France, and who was appointed vicar of St. Martin’s, Brighton, in 1919, is leaving England at the end. of the month to become a missioner in Barbados. — Reuter.

Baron Dickson, of Sweden,. is a passenger on the P. and O. liner Mongolia, en route for New Zealand, states a Press Association cable message from Fremantle.

The death occurred yesterday morning of Mr. Thomas Jones, for forty-six years an employee of the “Evening Post,” and for the greater part of that time head of the commercial printing department. The late Mr. Jones, who was in his sixty-fifth year, was the son of the late Mr. Thomas Jones, builder, of this city. As a lad he was apprenticed to the printing trade, and served his time on the old “New Zealand Independent,” the “New Zealand Times,’ and “Chronicle.” Mr. Jones, who was a member of the Masonic Order and the Manchester Unity of Oddfellow's, leaves a widow, three sons, and a daughter. The funeral will take place at 3.30 p.m. to-morrow.

Mr. John Murphv. an old and respected identity of Timaru for over. 50 years, died on his 82nd birthday, Christmas Dav. He left a widow and family of seven sons and four daughters—Mr. D. Murphv (Gisborne), Messrs. P. and C. Murphv (Wellington), Dlr. T. Murpliv (Palmerston North), Messrs. T. and J. Murphy (Australia), Mr. J. Mnrphv (Timaru), and Mrs. J. Reilly (Auckland), Mrs. J. Martin (Australia), Dlrs. DI. Gibson (Coalgate), and Miss M. Murphy (Christchurch). The death occurred at Auckland on Sunday of Mr. E. T. Hart,. a wellknown educationist in that city, who retired on superannuation from the service of the Education Board some years ago. Mr. Hart was headmaster of the Beresford Street School. The death occurred on Monday at 310 Oriental Bay of Mr. C. Maynard King, of Marine Parade, Eastbourne, head of the firm of Hanna and King, poster artists, after a lengthy illness. The late Mr. King entered into partnership with Mr. P. Hanna some fourteen, years ago, and since the outbreak of the war, when Mr. Hanna left for the front, and since the armistice (Mr. Hanna having taken up the stage as a profession). Mr. King has carried on the business. The deceased, who was 35 years of age, was a popular member of the Savage Club, where his facility in pictorial art was greatly appreciated. News has been received by Miss Roberts, of Wellington, of the death by accident in Sau Francisco on November 26 of Professor William C. Buckner, the leader of the Dixie Jubilee Singers, which toured New Zealand in 1924-25. Professor Buckner was proceeding to his work at the theatre when he was knocked down by a motor-car: He was taken to a hospital, but died within 48 hours. Professor Buckner has been connected with Jubilee Singers in the United States for a quarter of a century, and was well known throughout the States ns a singer and also as a man of the strictest integrity.