PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 61, 6 December 1926, Page 10

PERSONAL ITEMS

- —♦ The Minister of Health (Hon. J. A. Young) left on Saturday for Hawke’s Bay. The death is announced of Mr. Alexander Gilmour, of Hill Street, Wellington, who passed away after a short painless illness, at the age of 76 years The late Mr. Gilmour was born at Hamilton, Scotland, and be carried on the business of a woollen manufacturer at Glasgow until 1890, when be came out to New Zealand. In Scotland he took an active interest in home missions work, and for a number of years he was president of the Hamilton branch of the Y.M.C.A. His then only surviving brother was the late Dr. James Gilmour, medical missionary of Mongolia. The late Mr. A. Gilmour settled in Hawke’s Bay, where lie was a wellknown sheepfarmer. He retired about a vear ago, since when he had resided in Wellington. He is survived by his widow (nee Jane Bentley. Bremner, of Manchester), two sons, and a daughter --Mr. W. E. Gilmour, who manages the farming interests in Hawke’s Bay, Air. J. A. Gilmour, registrar of the Court of Arbitration, and Miss Celia’Gilmour. A message from our special correspondent in Nelson records the death, on Saturday, of Mrs. Annie Lane, a verv earlv settler, at the age of 87 years. The following teachers have recently been appointed by the Wellington Education Board:—Mr. J. E. Shimmin, head teacher, Eketalmna district High School; Miss 11. T. Tolley, assistant. Mangatainoka; Mrs. J. B. Carr, sole teacher, Saratoga (Marlborough ward) Dr. H. M- Monro has returned to Palmerston North after an absence of five years in England, where he was associated with the Leicester Royal liiftrniarv and the West Norfolk and Lynn Hospital. Mr N. Bernard Freeman, managing director for Australia and New Zealand of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Limited, will arrive from Sydney by the Tahiti today- __________