PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 98, 26 April 1916, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

The Hon. W. Fraser (Minister of Public Works) will return from the South to-morrow morning. The Hon. A. M. Myers is at present in Auckland. To-day he is opening the new Grammar School there. He will probably return at the end of the week. The Jlon. J. D. Ormond. M.L.C., has been confined to his house by illness for some weeks past. Mr. Thomas Trood, British ViceConsul at Apia, Samoa, died at the island recently, aged 83 years. The death is announced at Matlock of Captain William Barratt, at one time commodore of the P. and 0. fleet. The death occurred on Sunday, at his residence, St. Stephens-avenue, Parnell, Auckland, of Mr. George Heslop, late of Hawkes Bay. He was very well known throughout the Dominion. Mr. D. J. M'Lean, who has been associated with the construction of the Otira Tunnel ever since the work was started, has taken up his residence again in Wellington, and entered the Harbour Board's service. In their annual report, the churchwardens of St. Paul's Parish (Messrs. W. F. Ward and R. B. Rigg) express, on behalf of the congregation, their sense of the loss of the late Mr. Morton Clark v . who U>ok a very keen interest in tho welfare of the Sunday School, and whose services to it will be very much missed. The' death is reported of Mr. John Rose, well known as the inventor of the starting machine on most of the racecourses. He died at his residence, 219, Upper Vivian-street, at fhe age of 75 years. He arrived in New Zealand during the Maori War sixty years ago, and did his part in many ways typicad of the early settler. "We regret to record the death of Mr. 0. H. Chatwin, who for so many years was intimately connected with the work of the Parish," say the churchwardens of St. Mark's Parish in their annual report. "From the earliest days of the parish he rendered yeoman service as churchwarden, vestryman, and lay-reader, and for many years acted as treasurer to. the Missionary and Benevolent Society." By the last mail from India, Mr. Harold Beauchamp received the following extract from Divisional Orders, dated Mhow, Ist March, 1916, and published by Major-General B. Lloyd-Payne, 0.8., D.5.0., commanding 5Ui Mhow Division, in connection with the death of his lato son-in-law, Lieut.-Colonel J. C. C. Perkins, D.S.O. :—"The General Officer commanding the division regrets to announce the death of Lieut.-Colonel J. C. 0. Perkins, D.5.0., Military Deputy Auditor General, Southern Army. Lieut. - Colonel Perkins, in the course of his tour in the division, came to Mhow on 11th February. He was taken ill suddenly, and died after a short illness on 27th February. He was interred at Mhow with full military honours. Entering the service on 16th November, 1887, Lieut.-Colonel Perkins joined tho Leinster Regiment, and was transferred to the Indian Army on tho Bth January, 1890.' On the _sth February, 1894,- he joined the Military Accounts Department, in which he served through the South African war, for his services in which hewas mentioned in despatches, and received the D.S.O. On the reorganisation of the Military Accounts Department, he was appointed Military Deputy Auditor General, Southern Army, on Ist April,' 1914, in which appointment he was serving at the time of his death. 'From the very beginning of the war, Lieut.Colonel Perkins was called upon to undertake, a. mass of extra work of a very trying nature, and did not spare himself in the performance of his duty. The General Officer commanding is assured that all will join with him in regretting the decease of this distinguished officer, whose death was largely attributable, .if not entirely due, to his unremitting labours in connection with the war."