PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 78, 30 September 1915, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

Cable advice has been received that Tpr. H. Faulknor, son of Mr. A. , ' J. Faulknor, of G. Faulknor and Sons, Napier, is in the Bethnal Green Military Hospital, London. Tpr. Faulknor was born and educated at Napier, and served his apprenticeship at engineering with Messrs. Cable and Co., of Wellington. He left ' with the New Zealand Main Expeditionary Force, and r^ached the Dardanelles in May last. Mr. John Rigg, ex-M.L.C, and prominent in Labour circles., is leaving for Sydney by to-morrow's steamer. Captain Macindoe, the new secretary of the Merchant Service Guild, is to be. welcomed by members at a general meeting at 11 o'clock to-morrow morning. - - . Private advice received states that the Rev. W. Grigg, Wesleyan ministerial, present stationed at Leeston, Canterbury, •has been appointed a chaplain, vied Chaplain-Major Luxford, who ha* ■ been invalided home. • ■ • • Dr. Johnston, Carterton, has. now re* ceived information that his eon, Pri vate D. Gibb Johnston, has been ad mitted to the First London General Hospital (reports the Wairarapa Daily News). Private Johnston is an old Itoy of Wellington College. After being 32 years in the service of the Auckland Harbour Board, Mr, C. Finlay, late engineer of the Auckland Dock, has tendered his resignation, which will be accepted at the end of twelve months' leave" of absence on' full pay. A private cable message announces the return to the fighting line of Cpl. Lan B. Cruicksbank (son of Mr. Alex. Cruick6hank, of Otorohariga, and nephew of Mr. J. D.. Cruickshank, Wellington), who was wounded on Bth August. He belonged to. the Wellington - Mounted Rifles, Main Body." Mr. William Finlay, who had been j. business- at the Thames with his brothe: as watchmakers and' jewellers for a great many years, is dead. He was a promiaent figure in Freemasonry, was x>aci.master of Lodge of Light, 1.C., and at his death was a trustee >of that institution. Mr. ■ Finlay had occupied the. responsible position of Deputy-Grand Ma»teiyl.C, and went through all the'ehairs of the Royal Arch Chapter. > . Mr. James Sullivan, of Parnell, Auckland, died on Monday, at the advanced age of eighty-nine years. He arrived in Australia in 1851, »nd was present during the trouble at the Eureka' stockade, Ballarat, and subsequently took part in the Gabriel's Gully "rush," 'in Otago. Some fifty-three' years ago 'he' went to Auckland, and. tried his luck, in -the Thames • goldfields, subsequently" engaging in the hotel business. Commissioner Hodder., of the Salvation Army, has left for, the South, where he, will conduct the week-end- meetings at' Sydenham and.Linwdod. Lieut. -Colonel Powley has left the centre on a' visit to Ashburton and Temuka, where he will conduct. special meetings. Brigadier JHoare (chaplain-captain) is in charge of the Salvation Army marquee, which has just been erected at Avondile Military Camp. Major . Page, chief accountant of the Salvation Army, has left for the South, where he will conduct, the annual audit of the Christchurch and Dunedin Divisions. v .' , . ' '_ Mr. H. P. Oakden, of Deronport, who has joined the Field Ambulance Reinforcement draft, ' has three sons at [the front,- one of whom was reported wounded jn one of .last week's casualty lists. Mr. Oakden comes >of fighting stock (says the New Zealand. Herald). On bis father's side, ' fnere were seven, generations of army officers, and on his mother's side a - long list, of naval oflieen. Mr. Oakden was a midshipman, en .a. training vessel, but chose' the mercantile, service, and passed the officers' examinatione. He has been one of the mainstays of the ambulance section of. the Devohport branch, National Reserve, and last evening was the • recipient of a presentation from the officers of the Reterre. Lieut. P. J. Ewing, R.N.R., son of Mr. Robert Ewing, of. Island Bay, is, at present on duty, in the Imperial service at..olna Station, Swarbucks, Mm, Shetlands, where he is the official Censor. In a letter to his parents, dated sth August, he says that he has had tl.o job 'for four weeks,- since being transferred from the submarine patrol. Lieut. Ewing was second officer of the Tutane- 1 kai when she was brought out from England by the late Capt. Fairchild, with whom Capt. J. Dawson (now ' Harbourmaster at' Wellington) served as fir&t officer. Before leaving for England to join .the • Naval Reserve, Lieut. 'Ewing, was in the service of the Union Company ir. New Zealand.. •Mr. F. De Rose, of 'the New Zealand' Field Engineer Corps, reported as being wounded at the Dardanelles, was » member of. the Ist. Expeditionary Force, that went to Samoa. Upon returning he im-. mediately enlisted for service abroad, and joined the 4th Reinforcements. 'He has been a member of the electrio. lighting staff of this i city for, close on twenty, years, haying -been an employee, of-the-original Lighting Syndicate, whose interests the Wellington , City Council acquired. He has always taken 1 'aa active interest in athletics, being an old member of the Oriental and ' St. James Football Clubs, and the Newtown; Kilbirnie,. and Soatoun . Tennis Clubs. , H* was also a member of the. Management Committee of thcWorser Bay Swimming and Life-Saying Club, and at last night> annual meeting of that club he was unanimously, re-elected. He. is also a.member of the Wellington Federal Club. His many friends, and' clubmates will- gladly welcome news of his sfMedy recovery. Mr. Alex." R. Falconer, wno for a great' n timber of years had been pro minent in philanthropic matters in NewZealand,- died suddenly at Invercargill on Sunday, aged 72.' The deceased wiw born in Edinburgh, in 1845, and at the age of 20 years came to New Zealand in the ship Viola. He" tried' the West Coast goldfields, and then went to Port Chalmers, where he opened a business, and, out of love 'for his -fellows, he also' took an interest in ' establishing the Sailors' Rest. When the Rest- was trans- 1 fared to Dunedin, he took charge of it. At -the outbreak of the Boer War, he did good work in connection with the Soldiers' Rests at the training camps' at Karori. In 1905 he made a trip to the Old Country. Since his return his health was such that he was compelled to ease up. Referring to his death, a Southern paper says: — "Mr. Falconer was a Christian in 'the highest meaning of the word. He saw his duty, and he did it thoroughly. In his, work amongst sailors he did not disguise his motive. Mr. Fajconer was respected, by the men when they came to know him,' and he got- a hearing in forecastles 'where a humbug would have been quickly detected and railed at. In all respects he was a lovable man. Frank Bullen was one of 1 his "finds:" Deceased has left a widow and four sons (Dr. Falconer and Mr. E. Falconer, of Dunedin, Mr. C. S. Falconer, of Messrs. Ross and Glendining's staff in Wellington, and Mr. Robert Falconer, in camp at Trentham) and two daughters. Mi. Albert Glover, in the Houee-of Representatives last night, mentioned, an incident, in his early life — the first time! in 1863, wHfen he met the member tor Taumarunui. " I had a pair of moleskin trousers on," he said, "'and a shirt apropos of the occasion." Mr. Glover keenly enjoyed the laughter which followed lnV description, and went on with the picture. ' '