PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 134, 4 December 1917, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

The Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald, Minister of Agriculture, leaves for Napier to-morrow. After attending a conference of representatives of local bodies in connection with the East Coast, hydro-electric scheme, Mr. Mac Donald proceeds to' Whakatane, via Rotorua, to attend- the opening of the East Coast Freezing Company's new works.

The Prime Minister, Rt. Hon.' W. F. Aiassey, leaves for Palmerston North and Auckland on Saturday, next. After opening- the Anzac Club at Palmerstbn on Saturday afternoon, he will resume his journey the same .evening, arriving 'at Auckland on Sunday morning. He subsequently visits Cambridge, Botorua, Whakatane, Thames, and Hauraki Plains. In this itinerary there are also included visits to several places in his own electorate, Franklin..

„ T*L e r Hon- W. Fraser, Minister for Public Works, left for Napier to-day, and will to-monow attend a conference of delegates of local bodies of the East Coast district in connection -with the Waikaremoana hydro-electric scheme;

-Yu- Co™elius Hebberd, an old resident of the Wakapuaka district, is dead, aged

SA? 6 vߣ V' Monsign °r M'Kenna, a.M., V.G., has sufficiently recovered from his recent serious illness to be able to leave to-day on a visit to Wanganui. NaWl vk F-roStick '^ member of the National Efficiency Board, arrived^ in .Wellington.from Christehurch this morning. .

, f Mr".A- H- Miles, chairman of the Motions and; Supplies Board, left last night for the South Island, where he will spend a bnef holiday. Captain E J. Beeves,--whose name appears m the recent list of balloted men, is master of the now overdue Aurora. He had previously enlisted for service in the Expeditionary Force Mr. E. P. Hay, for th"c past eight Trf/t n£! a£ to T the Public 1 rust.Office, has been promoted to the To^^ o",^ solicltor ' in succession to Mr J. W. Mac Donald, who, after eight years' service as solicitor, has been appointed to a seat on the board.

fi^EnFi<^? ,Andrew H. Bennie; of the 6th Howitzer Battery, N.Z.F.A., has fe,aW^ ed ,the bar: to *c Military Medal He enlisted f rO m Wanganui and left wjth the 4th Reinforcements. He has been three times slightly wounded but never had hospital treatment. Early ™ year he was awarded the -Military

Mr. F. B. Mansfield, late of the mechanicians branch of the Post and Telegraph Department, has been selected from a. large number of applicants for the position of secretary to the Palmers™"NPrfch Hospital Board > at a salary ot ±,300 per annum. Mr. Mansfield recently resigned from the Department after his return, from, the front. .

Lieut. Gilshnan, of Palnierston North who joined the Main Body and went away in. the ranks of the Wellington Infantry Regimentals' returning to New Zealand on leave. He fought with his battalion on Gallipoli and subsequently took part in the fighting in France.' For services in'the field he was awarded the Military Medal. Latterly he has been at Oxford Training .College following on promotion given him'after the battle of Messmes. ■ •

An old Sandon resident, Mr. William Penny who has lived in the district for about fifty years, died on^Saturday. Mr Penny was born in Somerset, England, eighty-two years ago,, and arrived in New Zealand when twenty-two years of;a ?e . He spent some years on the iaien goldfields, and was among the nrst to take up a sectipn at Sandon, where he remained up to the time of his death. He leaves a family of two sons and five daughters.

The death occurred at his mother's residence yesterday of Mr. Norman Essex Polen, younger son of the late Mr. Hugh. Pollen, Under-Secretary for Internal Affairs. The late Mr. Pollen, who was 23 years of age and a native of Wellington, hnisned his education at "Wellington Collego, and entered the service'of the National Bank. In August, 1914, he went to bamoa as 1 a member of the Expedition ary ljorce, and returned to New Zealand invalided. On recovering his health he joined one of the Reinforcements, and ieft, with the Ambulance. After serving in Egypt for some time ho went again to England, where he became ill, and was invalided back to Wellington. The interment was made in the Anglican Church at Karoii this morning. A service was conducted in St. Mary's Church by the Rev. George Woodward, who also officiated at the graveside. • ■ ■

Mr. -William Peter Martin died at Fitzroy, New Plymouth, last week. Ho arrived with his parents by the William Watson in December, 1857. After serving with the Taranaki Rifle Volunteers during the Maori War, Mr. Martin settled on the land, and, after fanning for upwards of forty years, he went into business, subsequently retiring and tak ing up his residence at Fitzroy. He is survived by his widow and family of twelve—four daughters, Mrs. Flyger (Fordell), Mrs. Furness (Waitara), Mrs. Grantham (Wellington), and Miss Martin, and eight sons, Messrs! B. H E and E.-11. Martin (Fitzroy), Mr. H. Martin (Smart-road), Mr. Arthur Martin (Nukumaru), Mr. Allan Martin (Pihama), Mr. George Martin [Te Kuiti), and; Mr. William Martin (Auckland). There are forty-fivo grandchildren, Itwo of the eldest of whom are at the front. / '

In all paths of life his actions were beyond reproach. He was the ideal of a true aport, every inch of him a good and noble soldier. At the front he led his men with success in daring trench raids.. Badly wounded, as soon as he was released from hospital he hastened to the line again, and, 'foremost fighting, fell.' Our late comrade, Sgt. John Wilkinson Black, killed in ■ action, somewhere in France, 3rd October, 1917." This was the.brief but eloquent tribute paid by Capt. G. N. Goldie at a parade of the D Battery Reserve and i Otago Old Boys' Association last night. There was a numerous attendance (including the Hon. Sir Francis Bell) of members of the Reserve and the Association, besides many personal friends, and members of the Public Works Department, of which Sgt. Black,was a member pievious to; enlist-, ing. Lts. Gauntlet and Cameron, \>f the D Battery, were also present. /. The touching ceremony concluded with the sounding of " The Last Post " by Bugler Goldie. Apologies for unavoidable absence were sent by the Minister of Defence (Sir James Allen) and the Hon. A. L. Herdman. '