PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 43, 19 August 1918, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

Mr. Mark Cohen, editor of the Dunedin Star, arrived in Wellington yesterday on hia way to Rotorua.

Mr. Alfred Bish, twice Mayor of Masterton, and for many years in businesG in Carterton, died at Greytown yesterday at the age of seventy, reports The Post's Masterton correspondent.

Mr. W. Ranger, manager of the Gisborne branch of Messrs. Booth, MacDonaid, and Co., has been transferred to the New Plymouth branch. Mr. G. Scott, of Auckland, will succeed Mr. Banger at Gisborne.

A Press Association cable message from Melbourne states that Mr. James E. Pound, formerly of New Zealand, hsi been appointed lecturer and demonstrator in chemistry and metallurgy at the Ballarat School of Mines.

. Mr. A. S. Pratt, manager in Auckland for the National Mortgage and Agency Company, Ltd., has been transferred to the head office of the company, at Dunedin. Mr. Pratt, who has" been on active service, was met on Thursday afternoon by the grain and produce merchants and brokers of Auckland and presented with a case of pipes and a purse of sovereigns.'

Mr. Isaac Brown, a business man at the Thames, has died from appendicitis, aged 44. Deceased, who was born and educated at the Thames, was a deacon of the local Baptist Church, and a member of the Chamber of Commerce executive, and also of the School Committee.

The death occurred in the AucklandThames train last week of Mr. Henry Goldsworthy, an early resident of the Thames. Deceased was at one time manager of the Dubbo mine at Karangahake, a position he held for many years. He wa« also mine manager at Kuaotunu and Coromandel. Mr. Goldsworthy was one of the champiou rowing crew, consisting of Messrs. Goldsworthy (stroke), It. Newdick, J. Newdick, T. Black, and Tine Savage (cox). This crew was unbeaten for* five years. He was also a. champion pair-oar sculler, along with Mr. T. A. Black, and was one of the Thames Naval Brigade. He married a daughter of the late Mr. Abel Howe.

Aftev ,-v parting of some years, three New Zealand soldiers, brothers, on active service, met in France in May last, and had a holiday together. They are the sons of Mrs. Hdnry Lahmann, of 13, RintouKstrect, Wellington, and as a record of their unique meeting the boys wrote a joint letter to their mother expressing their pleasure and well-being. The sons are F. Lalrmann (Main Body), O. R. Lahmann (19th Reinforcements), and Sydney Lahman (29th Reinforcements). A fourth son is about to go into camp as a member of the Second Division. All are grandsons of the late Hon. H. H. Jjahmann, M.L.C., Westland. Their record is one of which they might well be proud.

The death occurred recently at St. Bathans (says the Otago Daily Times) of a very old pioneer in the person of Mr. Thomas O'Dowd. Born in Castlemaine, County Kerry, Ireland, in 1835, he came to Victoria with his brother (the lato. Archdeacon O'Dowd) in 1862. He arrived in New Zealand in 1864, and followed up the Hartley and Riley, Dunstan, and Skippers rushes, eventually settling in St. Bathans m .1868, where he i-esided ever since. He was one of a party who successfully undertook the colossal enterprise of constructing what is known as the Blue Duck race, which stands to-day as a monument to the indomitable courage and persoverance of the early miner. He was highly esteemed by all who knew him, and was a man of strict integrity and honour.

Bather unique in the history of the Maori race are the experiences of Mr. William K. Wade, of Rangiriri, Waikato. Before the war he was serving on the barque Peru, in which he made at least one trip to England. He left Now Zealand with the Main Expeditionary Force, was wounded at Gallipoli, and returned to his home. Turning once more to the sea, he joined an S.S. and A. Co.'s steamer, going to Ixmdon. There ho signed off and joined a Holt liner. On this lie went to New York and back. Ho then entered the King Edward VII. Navigation School, in East London, to study for his ticket, but, being anxious to rejoin his comrades, he enlisted again in the Pioneers iu_ England. He has now been transferred to the Navy, and is joining a ship as junior officer.

Mr. James Brett, who for many years was usher at the old Opera House in AVcllington, and was long associated with the distribution of the Evening Post, died in the Clifton Hospital yesterday at the age of 49. Deceased was a single man, and was born and educated in Wellington. When a boy ho met with an accident winch crippled him to a certain extent, and some years later he received severe injuries in an encounter which he had with two troublesome men in the audience at the Opera House. This, on top of his old trouble, compelled him to cease work, and for the past four years he had been quite helpless. Mr. Brett was very courteous and obliging while acting in his capacity as usher, and made a large circle of friends. His widowed mother lives in Myrtle-crescent.

Corporal GooTgo Walker, of Port Chalmers, aged 53, who died recently, enlisted a,t. the outbreak of the war and sailed with the Main Body. He took part in the Gallipoli landing, and after being 'five months on the peninsula he contracted an illness, and was sent to Lemnos Island for treatment. From there lie was removed' to Walton-on-Thames, and was in that institution for nearly twelve months. In civil life Corporal* Walker (who was 25^ years of age) was a dentist's assistant. Returning to New Zealand, he had sufficiently recovered; to allow him to take up his profession ; but last year he suffered a relapse, and at the time of his death was an inmate in the New Plymouth Hospital. Another brother, William, who was also born at Port Chalmers, enlisted and sailed with the 23rd Reinforcements, and was killed in action in France on sth April. He was a carpenter by trade, having served his apprenticeship with the Railway Department in Duncdin. Ho was educated at Port Chalmers, and was 33 years of age.