PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 22, 26 July 1920, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

Dr. Lindo Ferguson, of Dunedin, left Wellington for Sydney by the Moeraki on Friday.

Mr...A. T. Bate, who is well known in Wellington, is seriously ill a J a Botorua private hospital.

Mr. Angus Gibbons, owner of Kauri King and other racehorses, who attended the recent meeting at Trentham, returned to Auckland last night.

Mr. E. G. Stapp, chief, postmaster at Nelson, who has been" appointed relieving chief postmaster, is to* be succeeded ■by Mr. S. F. Hazard, formerly inspector of .post offices for the Nelson district. %

Dr. Thacker, M.P. (Mayor of ChristchuTch), who is patron of the New Zealand Bugby League, went to Auckland to attend the opening match, of the British tour.

Mr. Frederick Pirani was presented last week by the office staff and instructors of the Wanganui Education Board' with a pair of binoculars and a set of gold sleeve-links, on the occasion of his retirement from the chairmanship of 'the board.

Captain W. J. Grey and Mia. Grey, of Wellington, left for Papeete by the Tofua on Saturday, to visit their son, Captain J. B. Grey, who carried out important work in 'ifhe North &a during the war, and who is now managing a shipping concern at Tahiti.

Mr. J. S. Evans, S.M., of Nelson, who will relieve at the Magistrate's' Court ■during the absence of Ml.. E,. Pnge, S.M., commeixed his temporary duties this morning. Mr, Page will, as chairman of the Railway Appeal Board, bo absent from the Court for , about two months.

Mr. J. C. M'Killop, vice-president of the Masterion A. and P. Association, died in a private hospital in Wellington on Saturday evening, after a short illness. The deceased, who was forty-six years of age,, was the only son of the late Mr. Charles M'Killop. He was the owner of two properties in the district, and was a prominent breeder of Hereford cattle. He served in the. South African War, and proceeded to France as Major in charge of th*e 23rd Beinforoements. He leaves a wido-w and infant child. He is to be accorded a military funeral on Tuesday morning.

A private telegram received in Wellington this morning announces the death of Mr. Joseph William Souter. a prominent business man in the Waikato. Deceased, who was a native of Onehnnga, was the eldest son of the late Captain W. Souter, owner of various vessels which, traded out of Auckland in the early days. About 40 years ago Captain Souter removed to Cambridge, and his eldest son, who was previously in the service of the Bank of New Zealand, joined'him. in business there, together with another, son (Mr. Edwin Souter). Deceased, who was unmarried, was a pioneer of .motoring in the Auckland district.

The death occurred in the Napier Hospital last week of Mr. Joseph. Harris, who for many years was a resident of Wellington. Born in London in 1841, he came out" to New Zealand with his family in 1878, and soon after his arrival entered the service of Messrs. Harcourt and, Co., soft goods merchants, of Wellington. Subsequently he was with Messrs. Bing, Harris, 'and Co., Macky, Logan, Steen, and Caldvell, and M'Eldowney Bros. Five years ago he retired from business and went to live in Napier. The late Mr. Harris, who was, highly respected, was in Paris . when the German soldiers invaded France in 1870, and just got out of the city before it wits besieged. He has left two sons (Mr. Ernest S. Harris, of Napier, and Mr. Stanley Harris, of Dunedm) and a daughter {Mrs. J. R. Webb, of Cromwell).

An early settler in the person of Mr. George Shotter died on Saturday evening at the residence of his son-in-law, Mr. A. Cromie, of Balmoral-terrace, Wellington South. The late Mr. Shotter, who was ninety years of age, came from England when a mere boy in the ship' Gertrude, which landed its passengers on the Kaiwarra beach in the year 1841. One of Mr. Shott.er's shipmates was the late John Plimmerj the "Father of Wellington." A few years after his 1 arrival in Wellington, the deceased settled in Makara, where, until two years ago, he remained engaged in fanning pursuits. The deceased's wife predeceased him some years ago, and he is survived by a large family of sons and daughters, several of whom are settled in the Taranaki district as farmers, and many grand and great grand-children. . The late Mr. Shotter is to be buried to-morrow afternoon in.the Makara cemetery, where his wife and two of his children are interred.