PERSONAL HEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 112, 14 May 1934, Page 11

PERSONAL HEMS

Mr. L. Bastings, of Dannevirke, nas been elected an honorary associate of the Dominion Observatory in recognition of his. valuable woi;k in seismology.

The death is reported in a Press Association message from Gore of Mr. Michael Fitzgerald, aged 57 years, a well-known figure in insurance circles, and handicapper-f or the Southland Trotting Meetings. He expired suddenly last evening following a heart attack. .Ho is' survived by a widow and ten children.

~. Tho Eev. C. G. Kedlcy Byeroft, pastor of Bmmanual Congregational Church, for six years, has accepted a call to the new United Congregational Church, at Dunedin, staes a Press Association message from Palmerston North.

Mr. J. C. Hanson, vice-president of Swift and Co., Ltd., United States, arrived from Sydney T)y- the Makura today.

Colonel G. Barclay, of Dunedin, returned today with Mrs. Barclay by the Makura after representing the Grand Lodge of Freemasons of New-Zealand, of which he is Past Deputy Grand Master, at the jubilee celebration of the formation of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons of South Australia at Adelaide. He is also chief commissioner for NewZealand of the St. John Ambulance I Brigade, and during his stay in Aus-

:ralia he investigated the working of

the brigade in the principal cities. Colonel and Mrs. Barclay are leaving for tho south this evening.' "

Tho funeral of the late Mr. Franc-is E. •S. Sheard, secretary and general manager of the firm of Messrs. Kirkcaldie and Stains, Ltd., took place yesterday afternoon. There was a rcprc* sentative attendance at the service at St. Mary's Anglican Church, Karori. The service was conducted by the vicar, tho Eev. F. M. Bkmipthorne. Among those present were Messrs. C Morris, 13. K. Kirkcaldie," T. Cofkhill, J. MeEldowney, C. I. Smith, E. J. Archibald, W. Sinini, A. Smith, E. Hunt, "W. Saunders, Wynne, E. H. Kowland, P. B. J.. Ebsworth, W. B. C. Oswin, S. P. Andrew, J. L. Evans, H. Evans, T. Forsyth, A. Bruce, 0. D? Morpeth, and Entriean. The pallbearers were the departmental heads of Messrs. Kirk--caldio and Stains, Ltd. The late Mr.

Shcard, who was in his thirty-eighth; year, was born at Birkdale, Lancashire, England, and was educated at Scarisbrook College, Southport, and qualified as a chartered accountant. He served through the war, holding a eommissioa in the Tank Corps. ..'...

INDIAN TRADER

THE STEAMER NARBADA

TRIP FROM THE EAST

The 8988-ton steamer Narbada, t\.

only regular trader between. India and New Zealand, arrived here this afternoon from Auckland. The ship, which, belongs to the Indo-Paeine Shipping -~- Company, Ltd., is under .charter to- tlio Union Company, and each year makes three trips from the East to the Dominion. From Calcutta the'Narbada regularly proceeds to Rangoon, Penang, Singapore, and Samarang in the course of loading for New Zealand. She is manned by New Zealand officers, Jmt the crew is composed of Indians. On her recent trip the Narbada took sbc New Zealanders as passengers and< they returned to New Zealand when the ship arrived at Auckland last Thursday from the East. The Narbada. left' Bluff in ballast for Newcastle at the end of January and took on coal bunkers at the latter port. -From there calls were made at a number, of ports in different parts of the East Indies and the Straits Settlements. A. stay of two weeks in Calcutta enabled the passengers to take flats ashore and gain an insight into life in India's greatest port. -.- - ..- . . '" " .'. Prior to leaving on the return voyage the passengers and crew were inoculated against cholera, a precaution always taken in Calcutta and -without which landing is not allowed in the Dutch East Indies ports. Another inoculation was given "at sea, but this did not prevent one of the Indian crew from dying at Singapore-. A large consignment of tea- was loaded at' Calcutta, and rice was taken aboard at Eangoon. ,At Singapore large; quantities of pineapples were added to the cargo and dnrmg the many calls through' Java, Surabaya, and other East Indian ports; bales of kapok and bags of sago and tapioca helped to swell d typical Eastern freight. . . Excellent weather was • experienced throughout tho trip, weeks passing with the ship on an almost even. keel. The Narbada, which has 'accommodation for twelve passengers,-was not always an Eastern trader. Under the name of the Leitrim she nsed to xun for the Federal Company. She -was last in Wellington as the Leitrim m November,' 1925, and under her new name she arrived here in 1929. She was built in 1915.