PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 23, 27 January 1912, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Mr. E, B. Burdekin, of the, staff of the Publk "Trust Office, has been appointed district manager at Napier, vice Mr. K. M. Browne, who will join -the head office staff at Wellington. / A medical travelling scholarship has been awarded Thaddeue Julian. Mr. W. C. Kensington, Under-Secre-tary for Lands, returned to Wellington, yesterday evening from a visit of inspection to the Auckland district. So far there is no tall? of any other candidate contesting this year's Dunedin City mayoralty against Councillor Wilnon, state* our Duiiedin correspondent. ° Mr. A, G. Purdy, who has been on. the staff of Messrs. Bing, Harris and Co. for some years, left, for Sydney yesterday. ' Before the vessel left the wharf Mr. and Mtb. Pnrdy were presented by friends with a golden horseshoe as a farewell token 01 esteem. The Yen Archdeacon Grace, of Blenheim, will shortly leave for a month's visit to the Chatham Islands, to hold services amongst the Maoris there. The Rev. J. de B. Qalwey (formerly vicar of Suburban -North, but now of Lower Riccarton), will relieve Archdeacon Grace. Mr. John Morris, of Homebush', who •was well known throughout the Masterton district, where he had resided for nearly fifty years, having been brought there by his parents when a child, died on Friday morning. On Thursday be had been in the harvest field, and a few days previously was in Masterton. but had not been in the; best of health for some time past. Mr. Joseph Morris, of Te Ore Ore, is a brother of deceased, who was unmarried. Mr. Robert Sharpe, an old resident of Wanganui, who died on Wednesday, waa born at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, sixty-two years ago, and came to New Zealand in 1871, shortly afterwards going to Wanganui, where he hae resided ever since, The late Mr. Sharpe took a great interest' in fire brigade matters, being a member of the local brigade for twenty-five years, and was a prominent Forester, having occupied the Chief Ranger's chair of the Wanganui Lodge. He is survived by hie widow, three eons, and five daughters. Mr. William Armstrong, Commissioner of Crown Lands tut the Taranaki district, who died suddenly yesterday morning after an apoplectic seizure, at the age of 55, joined the service in 1876. He joined the staff of the Otago office and in December, 1883, was transferred to the Poverty Bay district as staff surveyor. In July, 1892, he joined the Napier office, and seven years later became chief draughtsman and receiver of land revenue at Blenheim. In- April, 1909, he vra» made chief draughtsman at Dunedin. Mr. Armstrong became Commissioner of Crown Lands and chief surveyor of Taranaki district in May of last year. The deceased leaves a widow and family of three.