PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 40, 17 February 1931, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

VICE-REGAL. Lady Game, wife of the Governor of New South Wales, arrived by the Ulimaroa this morning, and is a guest at Government House. Mr. Philip Game and Miss Crowdy arrived in Auckland recently by the Aorangi, but Lady Game's departure from Sydney was delayed owing to the illness of her daughter. A Press Association message from Dunedin reports tho death of ex-Chief-Detectivo Patrick Herbert, at the age of 74 years. Amongst tho arrivals by the Ulimaroa from Sydney this morning were Dr. Brooke-Moore and Dr. M. O'Brien. Captain E. Jones and Flight Officer H. Owen, of the Shell Company, arrived by the Ulimaroa this morning. Dr. Keith E. Speeding, of Manchester, who has been appointed radiologist of the Wellington Hospital, was a passenger by the Ulimaroa, which arrived from Sydney to-day. Dr. Speeding holds the Diploma, of Radiology, University of Edinburgh. He is an Australian by birth, and was resident radiologist Austin Hospital, Melbourne, and subsequently occupied positions at the Eoyal Infirmary, Edinburgh, , Manchester Eoyal Infirmary, and other hospitals in England.

A Press Association telegram from Tauranga states that the death' occurred on Sunday morning of Mr. Henry Havelock Sharplin, manager of the Whakamamara, Land and Timber Co., at Tauranga for 20 years. Previously he had been engaged in sawmilling and farming in the Staveley and Oxford districts in Canterbury. He was a prominent sportsman, and took a keen interest in boxing.

Mr. M. V. Treston, whose death was reported from Palmerston North yesterday, was an old Dunedin boy. He was for a long time president of the Napier Boxing Association and was the. donor of the Treston Shield, which is competed for in amateur competition. Mr. Treston was a well-known Eugby player in his younger days in Dunedin, being one of the original members of the Richmond Club in the 'eighties, and when the amalgamation between Zingari and Biehmond took place _ he was a member of the first Zingarl-Rich-mond fifteen. He is survived by a widow, four daughters, and two sons.

The death has occurred at the Eoyal Air Force College, CranwelJ, England, of Arthur Morland Acton-Adams, aged 21. Ho was a pupil at the college, and was killed in a flying accident. Mr. Acton-Adams was the second son of Mrs. Acton-Adam3 and Colonel P. M. Acton-Adama, who died a few years ago. The family live at Clarence. Beserve, Marlborough., The deceased attended Christ's' College for six years and wont to England in 1929. He was regarded as a particularly promising flying cadet, and in addition to passing his examinations brilliantly, was flying solo earlier than was anticipated. After forty years' service in the' Post and Telegraph Department, Mr. J. J. Kearney, Assistant Chief Postmaster in Auckland for the past ten years, retired on superannuation yesterday, states "The Post's" Auckland representative. Mr. Kearney, was 18 years of ago when he joined the Post and Telegraph Department in Wellington in February, 1891. He- was on the first staff of tho Dannevirko Post Office, going there as a cadet on a staff numbering only threo. He spent ten years in that office, and was senior officer in a staff of twenty-six when he was transferred to Auckland in 1907. A keen Rugby footballer in his younger days, Mr. Kearney retains pleasant memories of strenuous games contested as a member of the East Christchurch senior team, then captained by the present Prime Minister, Mr. Forbes. Mr. John Madden has been temporarily appointed Assistant Chief Postmaster.

Sergeant-Major Edwin Bezar, of Wellington, one of the oldest of the Maori War veterans, is celebrating his ninetythird birthday to-morrow. Born in Wiltshire in 1838, he joined the First Wiltshire Ecgiment in January, 1855, when he was only 17 years of age. He served in the Crimea with his regiment. In March, 1857, he was transferred to the Fifty-seventh Eegiment, commonly known as the "Die Hards," a name earned in the Peninsula War, and of which its members are very proud. Sergeant-Major Bezar left India in November, 1860, with the "Die Hards," landing in New Zealand early in 1861. From then on he took part in all the engagements of his regiment in the Maori War. In 1866 the "Die Hards" were recalled to England, but Sergeant-Major Bezar, having 'decided to make New Zealand his home, took his discharge here as colour-sergeant, having had the unique record of holding the rank of n.-c.o. for the whole of the period of his service in the British Forces. In 1866 he married Mary Ann, daughter of Sergeant T. Kearns. After many years of service in the Defence Department, he resigned his position in 1892, and has since lived in Wellington.