PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 51, 28 August 1918, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

■Surgeon-General R. S. F. Henderson, Director-General of Medical Services, is at present on a visit of inspection at Wanganui and Palmerston North. On his return he will proceed immediately to Christchurch and Dunedin.

By, reason of a break-down in health, Mr. J. Hislop (Under-Secretary for Internal Affairs) is about to go to Australia for a rest.

Mr. Benjamin Kemp, an old Motueka settler, is dead, aged 87.

Mr. William Mowbray and Mr. William Pearce, of Wellington, returned from Sydney by tlie Moeraki yesterday.

Mr, John Brown, Mayor of Biccarton, has been confined to his home for the last two weeks, suffering from congestion of the lungs.

Mr. 0. E. Torlesße, manager of the Waimate branch of the Union Bank of Australia, has been appointed manager of the branch at Timaru.

Lieutenant L. W. Blundell, R.G.A., second' son of Mrs. Henry Blundell, ajrived by the steamer Paloona to-day, on leave from England.

Mr. M. P. Cameron, Customs hardware expert, and a. member of the Munitions Board, who through pressure of work has been laid aside by illness for some weeks, has now recovered, and will in the course of a few days resume his ordinary duties.

Mr. A. H. Wheatiey, who has been for some years buyer for ih& Manchester department, Te Aro House Drapery Company_, Ltd., and who is shortly going into camp, was last evening presented by the staff with a wristlet watch, and a case of pipes. The manager, Mr. T. Foreyth, made the presentation.

The Rev. J. W. Boyd, who has been in charge of the Port Ahuriri Presbyterian Church for nearly two years past, is about to go into camp. He was drawn in the ballot, and elected not to appeal. The congregations have made presentations to Mr. and Mrs. Boyd and their son.

Last evening, on the motion of th« Chairman (the Hon. T. M. Wilford) the anniversary meeting of the Sailors' Friend Society expressed its condolence with the relatives of the late Captain Richard Seddoa. A motion of sympathy with Mrs. Seddon and family was passed at the meeting of the Lower Hutt Borough Council. '

The Director of Military Training ((Lieutenant- Colonel J. L. Sleeman, 1.G.5.), who has been attending the conference of Defence officers, left this afternoon for Dunedin, where he will instruct and examine at the Otago University Officers' Training Corps. This contingent, although it has bean in existence for only a brief period, has already provided a number of well-trained officers for the service. '

Major James o'Sullivan received the sad news to-day by private cable message of the .death, on the 24th inst., of his son, 2nd Lieutenant L. D. O'Sullivan, who was recently reported dangerously ill from wounds in the abdomen and forearm, received during the heavy fighting on the 16th inst. The deceased officer was educated at the Marist Bro-

thers' School and St. Patrick's College, in both of which institutions he gained distinction in athletic exercises. Very many of his old school friends will hear with deep regret of the passing away of Desmond o'Sullivan, who was only

just over 21 years of age. He was on the staff of the Public Trust Office when he went on active service. He left'for the front in October last with the 30th Reinforcements.

The death occurred at his residence, Milton-street, Nelson, on Sunday evening, of Rev. Canon W. S. Lucas, aftera long illness. Owing to the state of his health Canon Lucas resigned his position as vicar of All Saints' early in 1916. The late Canon Lucas was born in London in/ 1848, being the eldest son of Mr. W. S. Lucas, surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. He was educated 1 at Uppingham and Cheltenham. He came out to New Zealand in the 'seventies, and was engaged 1 for some years in Native school work. He was ordainwt by the late Primate, Bishop Harper, in 1888, for the cure of Charleston, where he remained

for three years. From there he went to Dunedin Diocese, and was vicar of Waikouaiti for ten years. On his return to the Nelson Diocese he was for four years vicar of Wakefield, and then became vicar of All Saints', holding the position till 1916, when ill-health led to his resignation. In his young days Canon Lucas was a fine cricketer, and represented his county. In later years he took up bowls, and' while his health permitted 1 he was a regular attendant on the Nelson Club's green. Nurse Lucas, of Upper Willis-street, is a daughter of the late Canon.