PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 104, 30 October 1939, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS

Dr. T. J. MacCormac, late of Bal-, clutha, has arrived in England for post-graduate study, and has been-ap-pointed first house surgeon in the Royal Dover and Exeter Hospital at Exeter. Mr. E. D. Morgan, son of Mrs. F. Morgan, of Palmerston North, has be&a appointed to the Colonial Administrative Service, and has left for1 England 1o take up his duties. Lieutenant-Colonel T. PL Dawson has accepted the command of the ex-ser-vicemen who are providing guards at vital points in and about Auckland. He will take the place of Captain A. ' x C. TrouSdale, who is one of the officers appointed to the Second Echelon in the Special Military Force for service in New Zealand or overseas. One of the earliest settlers in Hawera, Mr. Joseph Boyd, died at • . Auckland on Saturday, aged 93 years. He was in business as a baker for a I long1 peripd when the roads of the district' were unmetalled and in some cases unmade, and when transport was slow and difficult. With the late Mr. J. F. Pease, they served a wide area of country, from their centre in the leading town of South tt"aranaki. Mr. Boyd afterwards acquired land in Taranaki and later, near Auckland, retiring a number of years ago. His wife was killed at Napier in the 1931 earthquake while on a holiday. His only son was for many years in the Post and Telegraph Department andbecame Chief Postmaster at Hamilton. One of the first two casualties recorded among young New Zealanders who left to join the Royal Air Force was the death in action of Pilot Officer ■ 4 Cedric Whittington, a young man well known in Wellington and New Ply- - ~' mouth. He was reported missing after one of the first raids over Germany to Kiel, and now advice has been received that wreckage has been foundl . -* on the coast of Scotland of a machine which is identical with ,the one he was flying at the time of his death. He was employed in patrol work over the North Sea every evening. He and his crew had been in action on several occasions. The Leader of the Opposition (the Hon. Adam Hamilton) arrived in Wellington from the south yesterday morning. A man whose life was spen^ among the purlieus of the dairying industry • with multifarious spheres, Mr. D. J. McGowan, died at Auckland last week, after a long illness. He came of Highland stock and with his parents reached New Zealand in the early / • days, settling in Southland, home of • , , so many of the' best farming, and '• t - especially dairying, people. Entering \ the administrative side of the work, » .., ho. became manager of the Sefton, '< ; Dairy Company, and in 1900 was one ■ ' of the large band of Southlanders who ;:■ migrated to the North Island, mostly • '> to Taranaki, and became head of the v - Inglewood t company. After a spell ■/; of service 1 with Messrs. J. B. Mac- ';.'■■ Ewan and Co., Ltd., he joined the ; j Dairy Division, becoming a grader and -,-V .eventually acting for tw<K years as ~^ Dairy Commissioner. He was later associated with the interests of the Hoi- " • stein-Friesian breed (black and white)- i of dairy cattle and in the course of • '«■': some years built up the famqus stud • . of the Piri Land Company (Auckland), ; ■ which ultimately reached the remarkable figure of 600 stud animals. The v stock took prizes and championships : ; at the Royal and district shows all" ."- over New Zealand. ' Mr. Me-' Gowan was also for some years > ■ on the administrative side of ;• the breed, the-Friesian Association', becoming treasurer and later president. i His work for the breed and for dairy- : ing was invaluable.

During the absence of the Hon. P. ■, '<•'•:; Fraser in England, the secretarial -..■•/; duties associated with the Minister's ■ portfolios of " Health, ' Education, 'C Mental Hospitals, Marine, and Police" v: \yill be attended to by his private secretary, Mr. P. J. G. Smith '

Mr. A. J.. Levick, staff superintendent, New Zealand Railways, lety by the Limited express last night on aa official-visit to Auckland. ' . '

Dr. J. L. Robson, who has just re- , ']< turned from abroad, and who was formerly a member of the staff of the ' • Public Trust Office in Christchurch, has •'. been appointed to the position of assists *■/ ant superintendent of staff training" , t

under the Public" .Service Commissioner. " " • :;\. The Rev., R. A. Noalces, of Whanga- /£- ff momoha. has been appointed a chaplain ' ,-'", to the Navy. / - ■ ■. ■ ~ r