PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 130, 29 November 1919, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

Mr. T. P.'Kilfedder, Registrar of Pensions, Christchurch, has been transferred to Wellington.

Dr T. Fergus, of Dunedin, who was on overseas service for four years, has been demobilised, but will continue in charge of the artificial limb work of the Otago Military District as part time work for the Defence Department.

News comes from Canterbury of the death of Mr Joseph Libeau, at the age of 86 years. The deceased, who was born at Bordeaux, and when only seven years of age came to New Zealand with his parents, was the last of the old French settlers who arrived by the Comte de Paris in 1840. His father was the first Frenchman to take up dairying in this country.

The death of Mr. Richard Garland, founder and one of the directors of the Dunlop Rubber Company of Australasia, having occurred in Melbourne, a flag was flown at half-mast above the local branch of the company on Thursday, and the offices, were closed for an hour. The deceased purchased the whole interest of Dunlop's for Australasia in the nineties, and the Australasian company has since grown into an industrial institution with a capi-. tal of a million and a-quarter, and a mill at- Melbourne employing over 2000 hands. The deceased visited New Zealand some years ago. He had been in lil-health for many years. '

Lieutenant-Colonel William Temple, V.0., who has died recently, won the Cross at the, attack on Rangiriri, Waikato, 20th November, 1563. It is recorded that Assistant-Surgeon William Temple and Lieutenant Arthur Pickard were awarded the Cross for gallant conduct during the assault on Rangiriri, in exposing their lives to imminent danger, in crossing the entrance of the Maori keep at a point upon which the enemy had concentrated their fire, with a viewto render assistance to the wounded, and more especially to tho late Captain Mercer, R.A., who had led a party of 36 artillerymen in an assault on the centre redoubt of Rangiriri.

The death occurred at his residence at Ngaio, on Thursday, of Mr John William Davis, who tor many years was one of the best-known and 'most-popular members of the staff of the Land and Survey Department. Deceased became Land Transfer Draughtsman it, Wellington in 1887, and was appointed Chief Draughtsman in the Wellington District Land Office in May, 190 S. In April of the following year he was promoted to the position of Chief Draughtsman in the Head Office of the Land and Survey Department. He retired on superannuation, but returned to Government work during tho war period. Mr. Davis, who was a son of the late Mr. Rowland Robert Davis, of Kealkill, Christchurch, took a keen interest in outdoor sports, and in his early days in Canterbury he was a fine runner and oarsman. He 'was a prominent churchman, and for some years held a seat on the Vestry of St. Thomas's, Wellington South. The funeral took place this afternoon, the interment being made at Karori.