PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 18332, 20 July 1923, Page 7

PERSONAL

A motion of sympathy with the relatives and colleagues of the late Sir Wm. Fraser was passed by the City Council at its meeting yesterday.

Alessrs J. Waters and B. Scofield returned last night from Wellington after attending a meeting of the New Zealand Pharmacy Board. Mrs Tillyard, wife of tho biologist at the Cawthron Institute, has been appointed to tho Board of Governors of the Nelson College. She is the first woman in tho dominion to leceive such an appointment. She was educated at the Girls’ Grammar School at Rochester, afterwards a Newnh’ara College, whore she took natural science. She took her ALA. degree at Trinity College, Dublin, and later trained elementary school teachers in science under the Herefordshire County Council. Alarrying in Sydney in I9CO, she kept in close touch with school and university work in that city. Sinco settling in Nelson she has taken a keen interest in civil and educational affairs.—Our Wellington correspondent. Mr Robert Kerr, whose death took place at Genova, Switzerland, of malarial fever, was a New Zealander. He was the fifth son of Air John Kerr, of Dunsandol. When the South African War broke out he enlisted and fought through the war, taking his discharge in 1902. Ho spent several years in Johannesburg, where lie followed his occupation of an engineer. In 1916 he went to British East Africa, whore ho acquired agricultural land in Kenya Colony. He then joined the East African M.T.C., and served in British East Africa and German East Africa during the late war. In June, 1921, ho decided to go to England to see Dr Spahllnger for T.B. trouble. He was enthusiastic over the treatment, and furnished Sir James Allen with a report for tho use of tho New Zealand Government, and also another report for Sir Arthur Maitland, the late Under-Secretary for the Colonies, who was investigating Spahlinger’s work. Mr Kerr had been under treatment in Genova for some time, and was examined by dozens of doctors, who all pronounced him to be cured of consumption, his lungs, being perfectly healthy.—Our Christchurch correspondent. A Sydney cable records the death of Mr R. R. Black, formerly superintendent of the Eastern Extension Cable Company’s branch at Wellington. Air Black had been staving in Sydney, prior to proceeding to Adelaida to join his wife, lie bad been in ill-health for several months. It was his daily habit to visit the parks, resting on the seats. He was found dead sitting on a seat.' Ho-had made a dinner engagement for tho evening. Tho cause of death was presumably heart trouble.