PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 31, 5 February 1917, Page 2

PERSONAL MATTERS

Dr. Truby King was among the passengers from South by the Maori yesterday morning. The position of superintendent of the Napier Fire Brigade has been accepted by Mr. L. Pickering, a member of the Napier Gas Company's staff. The death is announced of Mr Richard Boddy, father of Mi-. Charles Boddy, of Wellington. Deceased, who was 72 years of age, was the pioneer of Boddyfown. Westland. Mr. V. D. Ha-szard, of the National Provident and Friendly Societies Department, who goes into cariip this week, was on Saturday presented with a wristlet watch-from his fellow officers. - Captain E. H. Rawson,, N.Z.M.C., son of Dr. Ernest Rawson, of Wellington, has left the New Zealand Force and joined the Royal Field Artillery He is now training at Cosham, near Portsmouth. Mr. T. 0. Brebner is due to leave Auckland to-day for Samoa. Mr. Brebner, who has been Customs landing waiter at the northern port, will take up the duties of chief clerk of 11. M. Customs at Apia. A Press Association telegram from Wairoa stales that considerable regret is expressed by people of all shades of politics at the death of Dr M'Nab. Flags were half-masted in the town on receipt of the sad news. The Rev. F. Hands, of Marion, lias received official confirmation of his appointment as chaplain-captain at Trentham Camp, in charge of the Methodist. Institute. Chaplaiu-Captain Rands will succeed Chaplain-Captain Seamer, who sails .for the front with the next reinforcements. Captain Wilfrid Findlay has, according to private advice received from London, been transferred at his own request to the Machine-gun Corps, and is now at Grantham. Captain Lloyd Findlay returned to duty over two months ago, but has not. been passed officially as fit for foreign service yet. He may apply for a transfer to the Flying Corps. Mr. C. J. Ronaldson, who has been promoted to the position of manager of the Christchurch branch ■of the National Bank of New Zealand after occupying the position of manager of the Invcrcargill branch for eight and a-half years, was tendered a farewell luncheon at Invercargill by members of the Invercargill Chamber of. Commerce and the Southland League. At the Petone Railway Workshops, on Friday, Mr. Job Leadbetter, who is retiring after thirty-four years' service, was presented with two travelling bags for himself and a.handsome ladies' bag for Mrs. Leadbeater. Mr J. Armstrong, foreman of the boiler shop, who made the presentation, and Mr, George Hogg, leading hand, spoke of the high esteem in which' Mr. Leadbeater was held by Ms fellow-workmen • At a meeting of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Wellington, and presided over by the Right Rev. Monsignor M'Kenna, V.G., a purse of sovereigns was presented to the Rev. Dr. Kelly, who is about to take over the editorship of the New Zealand Tablet, as a slight token of their affection and esteem. Dr. Kelly is a graduate of the Irish College, Rome, and a nephew of the Most Rev. Dr. Kelly, Archbishop of Sydney. The death has occurred at Mataura of Mr J. C. M'Lennan, one of New Zealand's pioneer settlers. ■ Deceased was born in Scotland seventy-three years ago, and came to New Zealand-at the age of. seventeen. After serving several years before the mast, he took up station work in Otago. On the outbreak of the gold rush.-on .the West Coast, he spent some time on the diggings there, and then, engaged in railway construction in Otago. Having secured an interest in' the Waikaka Dredging Co., he removed to. Gore, and later took up his residence at Mataura. ■ ■ . ■■■.'■• Mr. Donald M'Lean, of Hawker- j street, Wellington, has received advice | that his two sons, Sergeant J. A. M'Lean and Private A. •R. M'Lean, are being invalided home, and are expected to arrive here the ■ first week,in March. There is a remarkable series of coincidences attached to their service at the front They left with the sth Reinforcements, together went through the Gallipoli campaign unscathed, and later left for France, where they were both wounded on 16th September last during the Somme offensive. They were taken to the same clearing station, thence to England, and strangely enough were placed side by side in beds in the same hospital. News has been received in Wellington that Sergeant Leonard Harty, second son of Mr. J. Kerr Harty, aud district manager of the National Mutual Life Assurance Society at Auckland, has been awarded the Military Cross. Sergeant Harty, who is a native of Wellington, and a grandson of Mrs. E. W Morrah, of Upper Willis-street, went away with the Engineer section of the Main Body, and was all through the Gallipoli campaign, escaping with a slight wound. He and two of his brothers (Ralph,, who also left with the Main Body, and Rupert, who went away with the 14th Reinforcements) are now together in the same company. Mr. R. E. Maclean, who as far back as 1878 occupied the position of manager of the Bank of Australasia at Foxton, and afterwards removed to Invercargill and Dunedin, died suddenly at his residence, Arinidale, Melbourne, last month. He retired from the bank service some six years ago. Mr. Maclean married the widow of the late Dr. John Smith, who practised' in the Manawatu (and who was the first medical man. to put his foot, in Palmerslon North). The doctor took up his residence in Foxton in 1859, afterwards removing to Martou in 1873. Mrs. Maclean and her daughter Miss Maclean still live at Arinidale, and, her two surviving sons, Mr. Frank B. Smith, of Invercargill,. and Mr. Ernest R. Smith, of the railway goods office, Wellington. . Mr. Harry Lundins, who has been transferred from Wanganui to the'head office of the Crown Lands iii Wellington, was tendered a valedictory function by a representative gathering of Wanganui citizens, aud presented with.a substantial cheque. Mr Lundins joined the Department in 1890, _and the following year went to Feilding. He went to Wanganui in 1893, and in 1906 became a member ,of the Okoia Maori Land Board, which post he relinquished in 1910. Mr. R. H. Reaney, who made the presentation, referred to the many sterling qualities of the recipient and the manner in which he had endeared himself to the settlers in the ba«Ublocks and his friends in Wanganui. Mr. J. P. Maxwell, one of the Commissioners appointed to enquire into the condition of the railway rolling stock, came to New Zealand from England about thirty years ago. He subsequently became General Manager of Railways, and was later one of the Railway-Com-missioners, with Messrs. J. M'Kerrow and W. M. Hannay. Professor R. J. Scott, of Canterbury College', Chairman of the Commission, was formerly in the Railway Department in Wellington. Mr. J. W. Marchbanks, the other member of the Commission, was for some years engineer of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company, and afterwards became engineer to the Wellington Harbour Board, a position which he still occupies. Mr. E. H. Hiley (General Manager of Railways) and Mr. J. H. Jackson (Chief Railway Mechanical Engineer), and the members of the Commission left for Auckland on. Saturday.