PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 16263, 4 November 1916, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr Malcolm L. Graham, who was for some time sergeant in the Otago Hussars, has been appointed to the recruiting department of the Defence Force at Oamaru with tho rank of sergeant-major. At a. meeting of the Port Chalmers Ministers' Association yesterday occasion was taken to congratulate the llev. W. M. Grant upon the~ attainment of the 40fch anniversary of his ordination to the Ministry, and to express the deep fvense entertained by his brethren of the value of his services to the community during the 20 years of his two pastorates in Port Chalmers. Mrs Helen S. L. Lyon, who died after 50 years' residence at llangitikei. was .horn in 1842 in Wellington, at which time the sea ran up to where Lampton quay is now situated. In 1865 the deceased lady settled in Marton with her husband, the late Hairy Lyon, chemist, whom she survived by 36 years. *Th© ' Raugitikei Advocate ' says : " The late Mrs Lyon was of a retiring and affable nature, a lover of her people and homo, and of considerable ability and intellectuality. One of the links of old Marion has thus gone." At tho works of Messrs ft.. Hudson and Co. last evening Miss Mary Phillips was presented by the firm with a teasct and tray to mark the completion of her 21 years' service. Tn making the presentation Air Ambrose Hudson spoke of the excellent way in which Ml-« Phillips had always performed her duties. At the Hillside Workshops yoetorday afternoon Mr F. H. Thomas, who"has been leading fitter in ciiargo of building the newlocomotives for som-e time, and hae been promoted to the position of workshops foreman at Greymouth. was presented with a Gladstone bag and New Zealand rug by his shopmatcs and the members of "the staff. Mr J. Carson ■(manager), in making the presentation, referred to tho fact that Mr Thomas had forved his apprenticeship ai Hillside, and was undoubtedly one of the best tradesmen ever turned out at th-i shop:'. During the time that Mr Thomas had had charge of new engine work they had turned out a locomotive in 17 dny«, and ho thought that was a record. Whereever he went ho felt sure that Mr Thomas would make a name as a locomotive, engineer of tho first rank. Messrs IT. G. Brooks and Ralph Johnston (foremen) and E E. Gillcn (locomotive engineer) also upoke. Mr Gillcn said that it was- pleasing to _ him, as an old Hillside apprentice, to testify to the good work done hyMcssn Thomas'at Hillside and G. Slight at Arldington, both Hillside apprentices, who Mere turning out new encines for the Dominion. Mr Thomas suitably returned thanks for the gift and the sentiment accompanying it. Mr Thomas Anderton, curator of tho Portoliello fish hatchery, died tin's morning after a short illness.