PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 98, 25 April 1917, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

Mr.' J. A. Wallace has been re-elected Mayor of Motueka unopposed.

Mr. P. H. Upton, general manager of tlie South British Insurance Company, is at present in Wellington.

Mr. W. White, mine manager, Barrytown, has ' received advice from the Minister of Defence that his son, Bombardier W. C. White, has been awarded the Silver Medal for gallantry on the field of action in France. This is his second ■ decoration, ho having received the French MedaiUe'Militaire for bravery on Gallipoli.

The friends of Mr. Joseph Berman will regret to hear of his death, which occurred en Sunday last. The deceased was born in Christchurch, and came to Wellington as a boy. Mr. Berman was a member of the firm of Messrs. J. and M. Berman, of Wellington. ,He had been in bad health for some timei but his death was not anticipated.

The Wellington Education Board has received with regret the resignations of the following teachers:. Miss C. M. Stanton, Normandalej Mrs. Harvey, Whiteman's Valley; Miss Trolove, Woodbank; Miss F. L. Ross, Petone; Miss E. Turner, Gladstone; Miss A. Lockwood, Petona West; Miss D. H. Castle, Mount Cook Infants; Mr. A. G. L. Cork,"Levin. Chaplain-Captain La .Crobc, of Greymouth, who has enlisted for service at the front, was given an enthusiastic farewell "at Greymouth last week. The Mayor presided, and there was also prosent on the platform Sir James Allen (Acting Prime Minister), the Hon. W. D. S. Mao Donald, the Very Rev. Dean Carew, Father Peoples, and many other representative people.

Flight-Lieutenant J. ,H. Cock, of Nelson, was recently reported missing. He left New Zealand with the^Main Body, and was seriously wounded'on Gallipoli. On his recovery ho re-enlisted and left New "Zealand with a later reinforcement draft for Prance, where he was again wounded. On receiving hia discharge from the N.Z.E.F. he entered the Flying Service, and had been in France again for some time.

Lieutenant Hoyden M'Dowell, of Dannevirke, underwent an'operation in Victoria Hospital, Wellington, yesterday i owing to a return of a Gallipoli Lieuienant M'Dowell was wounded on Gallipoli, and subsequently was operated on for appendicitis in England. 'He was invalided home, and when convalescent 'took up home service duty at Featherston Camp. He was recently appointed a probationary lieutenant. ' It is reported to-day that he is getting along nicely.

Mr. Francis Shaw, .who died at Ma-s----terton on Monday last, at the age of eighty-four years, was a native of Scarborough, Yorkshire, and in 1845 went to Canada, where he farmed for eight years. In 1874 he came out to New Zealand in the ship Ocean Mail, and settled at Greytown. In later years he was fanning at Tauherenikau, at Woodville, and in the Masterton district. His wife died twenty years ago. He has left a son (Mr. George Shaw) and three daughters ■—Mesdames W. M'Kenzie, Frank Hood, juid W. Cameron.

An attempt is being mado by the school committees of the South Wairarapa to give some recognition to the services rendered to the causa of education by Sir Walter Buchanan. At this morning's meeting of the Wellington Education Board the board was notified of the committee's intention to forward a large framed photograph of Sir Waller, tobe hong in the board room at Wellington ; also smaller photographs, to be displayed in the main rooms of all the South Wairarapa. schools. The board' decided to thank the South Wairarapa people for what they have done in the matter.

As was reported yesterday, Private Frank Smith, son .of Mr. 'J.\\ Smith, of Petone, has now been reported killed in action, his parents having previously been notified that their son was missing. The young man, who was twenty-eight years of age, took part in the big push on the Somme in September last. Ho was one of four brothers who joined the New Zealand Forces; an elder brother was killed 1 in action in October last, another is in Brockenhurst Hospital, wounded, and the youngest, a MairTßody man, who wenfr right through tho Gallipoli campaign, is still in the firing-line.

The late Mr. George Braddock, who died at the Nelson Hospital at the age of eighty-four, was (says the Golden Bay Times) one of Collinjjwood's oldest identities, being amongst the earliest diggers who sought their fortune on the Coßingwood goldfields. Previous to coming to Now Zealand, tho late Mr. Braddock, who was an intellectual and well-educated gentleman, had banking experience in London, which life he forsook for the more alluring pursuit of goldmining. IDs first experience on the Collingwood goldfields was general labouring work, and particularly pit-sawing of timber for mining purposes, but he gradually drifted into the inevitable Jifo of !>, goldtniner. He spent many years at Rocky River in alluvial mining, and subsequently took up a claim at Doctor's Creek, from which he made a competency. He had livej in retirement in Nelson lor many years. The deceased was never married, and was of a very retiring and studious disposition.

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