PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 41, 17 August 1917, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

Flight-Lieut. Trevor White, son of Mr. and Mrs. A J. White, of Konini-road, Hataitai, who was recently reported missing, is, according to private advice received in Wellington to-day a prisoner of war and is unhurt.

Mr. P. Taylor, representative of the employees on the Wellington Tramways Appeal Board, has resigned. Nominations, to close on 30th August, are being invited for the appointment of his successor.

Mr. G. W. Clinkard, of the office of the New Zealand Employers' Federation, has been appointed compiler in charge of industrial and trade statistics in the Census and Statistics Department. He will take up his new duties on let September.

Mr. William O'Brien, a, well-known settler at Spring Creek, Blenheim, died suddenly on Tuesday night, aged 66. He was born near Cork, Ireland, and came out to New Zealand, about forty years ago. He leaves a widow, five sons, and a, daughter. Two of his "sons are serving their King and country at the front.

Mr. F. A. Ruck, who has been secretary of the Second Canterbury Military Service Board since it was set up, has been transferred to the Immigration Department, Wellington, in which, he was employed before he went to the front. Mr. T. Kirker, who retired from the Post and Telegraph Department some time ago, after 40 years' service, and who was postmaster at Te Aro, has been appointed secretary to the board.

Sergt. Jack Coradine (killed in action) was, the Wairarapa Daily Times states, the second son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Coradine, of -Masterton, and conducted a very successful business there as barrister and solicitor, subsequently taking Mr. W. Noble as a partner. The deceased showed brilliant ability as a law student, and passed his examinations with high honours before he was 21 years of age. The late Sergt. Coradine was closely connected with the sports and pastimes of the town. He took a leading part in the work of the Wairarapa. Amateur Athletic Club, and was at one time its secretary. He left with one of the early reinforcements.

The funeral of tfio late Mr. Robert Henderson, a waterside worker who succumbed to shock after falling in the water on Monday night, which took place at Karori Cemetery yesterday, was one of the largest seen in Wellington for a considerable time. The cortege was headed by the Watersiders' Band, under tho baton of Bandma-ster J. J. Drew, then followed the. executive of the union, the hearse, seventeen vehicles, and a procession of no fewer than 1200 members of the Watei-side Workers' Union. The band played the Dead March in "Saul," "The Garland of Flowers," and other appropriate numbers. The funeral proceeded from the late residence of the deceased at No. 21, Bute-street, via Cuba-street, Jervodsquay, Customhouse-quay, Bunny-street, Lambton-quay, Charlotte-street, Hillstreet, to Karon. The Rev. H. Watson officiated at the graveside. The casket was covered witfli .wreaths. Four comrades of the deceased, who are waterside workers, acted as pall-bearers. The lato Mr. Henderson, who had been employed on the local waterfront for the past fifteen years, had relatives in Picton.