PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Issue 65, 13 September 1924, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

• 'Captain OV PL Mead, D.5.0., N.Z.S.C., staff . officer in chargo ■:. of - No. . 6 Ilegimental ..District: (Palmerston .North), has been appointed staff .officer in charge of .No. ..5 Regimental District (Welling-, ton "city and suburbs)^ vice Major E. Puttick, \ D.5.0., '■ N.Z.S.C., .who., has Aieen appointed Assistant. QuartermasterGenaral at General^Headquarters. Captain, Mead, served with ..the. New, Zealand Expeditionary . Force .throughout "the Great War, and in 1917-18 commanded ■ the 2nd Battalion, =, Canterbury Infantry Regiment, on.the.Western Front.;.

Reference was made last evening at the Commercial Travellers •■ and Warehousemen's .Association smoke concert to the illri ess of Mr. G. Pirie,"ona of tho oldest members oi. the1 association, and a' vote was.passed.wishing him.a.speedy; return to: health. ... . .. . . ;

. Mr. Henry Allison, who died at Christ-church-on Thursday, aged 77. YeaTs, was a ■well-known.'figure in Canterbury. He was born-at -Mansfield,' Nottinghamshire, and ; arrived, in Lytteltoni: with liis parents,, the lata. Miv and -Mrs. Charles 'Allison, in. the sship Isobella,; Hercus in 1856. He had lived in "■■ Christchurch ever, since. Practically, all his business career. (53 years) had been spent with Harman and Stevens, Ltd. ' For thirty years.; Mr: 'Allison was secretary of; the South: Waimakariri River Board, which has. recently been ' reconstituted.as the Waimakiriri River Trust. He-had been a director of the Christchurch .Building and Land,. Society for thirty-five years, and .-chairman of directors for the last twenty-three years. The late Mr. Allison was keenly.interested in /literature 'and science, and was a member of the N.Z. Philosophical Institute of the Cai> terbury . Natural History and ' Microscopical-. Society.. He was an', amaieur astronomer, and^microEcopist. .-.-;-•.