PERSONAL

Grey River Argus, 28 June 1943, Page 4

PERSONAL

A,*- — Messrs McPhail? an d TenneuL of the .Housing DepaL trnen t, Woffington are wisiting Greyr^ ou tb - Mrs. i Parfitt left for Palmerston North on Saturday, on .a. visit to hei son, Lieutenant Parfitt. Mr. and Mrs. W; H. Southward, Runanga, have received advice that their son. Sergeant Instructor Keßn Southward, has been promoted to Flignt Sergeant.

The vacancy on the Canterbury University College Council caused by the death of Mr. J. G. Polson .has been filled by Mr. W. J. Cartwright, headmaster of the Normal School.

Miss J A. Tomlinson, lady Superintendent of the Dunedin Hospital, who was trained at tne Grey River Hospital, left Dunedin on Thursday for Ashburton., where she is to be married. A New York cable stated: Captain Gunnar Quisling, a cousin of Major Quisling the Norwegian traitor, who came to America fifty years ago with his father, has given the U.S.A. Government two inventions which .it is “may prove invaluable in winning the war.” A New York cable records the death of Mr. Karl Lansteiner, an American, whose discovery and classification of the human blood into four main groups paved the way for blood transfusions, which have saved scores of thousands of lives.

The following are guests at the Albion Hotel:—Mesdames M. Walters, J. Leatham (Auckland); Misses C. Lucas, B. Reaves, Messrs C. L. Hardy, E. F. Killeen, J. J. Lawson (Christchurch); Mr. P. R Ryan (Westport).

A New York Cable stated:" The death has occurred at Clearwater, in Florida, of Roily Payne, a Negro, aged 109 years. Payne was a servant of Abraham Lincoln. He claimed that he also worked for President Grant and President McKinley. He was a son of an African Methodist Minister/

Residents of the Rotomanu district entertained Privates J. S.- Ryan and D. Pitman at the Rotomanu Hall cm Friday evening. On behalf of residents each of tne guests was presented with an envelope of notes by Mr. G. Gibson. A presentation was made to Private Ryart on behalf of the Te Kinga Football Club also.

Mr. W. C, Burdett, who has been nominated by President Roosevelt as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States in New Zealand, is 59 years old. He was married in 1918 to' Miss Elizabeth H. Burke, and there are two sons and two daughters.

The death occurred yesterday at the Reefton Hospital of Miss Alma McHenry, the daughter of Mr, and Mrs. L. McHenry, Black’s Point. Miss McHenry, who was aged 15 years, had been in ill health for the past two years. Besides her parents she leaves two sisters, Mrs. G. Bolitho, Waiuta, and Miss Melva McHenry, Black’s Point, and two brothers, Williams, Otautau, and Robert, Ohai. The funeral will take place at the Suburban Cemetery tomorrow afternoon

The death occurred on Thursday in his eighty-second year, of Dr. James Fitzgerald, for many years one of the best-known medical men in Dunedin. At the time of his death, he was the oldest practising physician in the Dominion. He was an enthusiastic Rugby footballer, and played for Otago University in the first match against Canterbury College. He gave service for many years as a member of the Otago University Council. Three of his sons are in the medical profession.—P.A.

T’he death occurred in St. Helen’s Hospital, Wellington, on Thursday last, after a short severe illness of Mr John H. Taylor. A native of Inangahua Junction, 47 years of age, he had for the past eighteen months been on defence work in Wellington, .and during most of this time had had indifferent health. He leaves a widow, one son and one daughter, also a brother, Mr Hugh Taylor, of Inangahua Junction, and four sisters, Mrs Tait (Westport), Mrs Drummond (Inangahua Junction), Mrs Silcock (Larry’s Creek), .and Mrs McDowell (Richmond).