PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 269, 28 October 1932, Page 6

PERSONAL

The death is reported from Wellington of Mr John Murphy at the age of 77. Mr Murphy was a well-known iron founder.—Press Association. Mr T. Lambert, of Wairoa, is on a visit to his son-in-law and daughter, Mr and Mrs J. R. Thorp, Hastings. The death occurred yesterday of Jane Elizabeth, elder daughter of Mrs and the late Mr J. F. Murphy, of 2 Battery road, Napier. Mr M. G. Gardner, of the Hastings railway station clerical staff, has received notice of his transfer to Motuhora, on the Gisborne line. He leaves on Monday to take over his new duties. The New Zealand authoress, Jane Mander, returned by the Bangitiki yesterday after twenty years’ absence abroad. She is a daughter of Mr F. Mander, former M.L.C., and member of Parliament for Marsden, who was present to meet her. Prior to his departure for Geneva, Mr Norman Davis, chief United States delegate to the Disarmament Conference, paid a farewell visit to the Prime Minister at the House of Commons, when, it is understood, there was a further conversation on disarmament questions.—British Official Wireless. Mr Gullett, Federal Minister of Customs, has suffered a complete breakdown in health since his return from Ottawa and he is unable to attend Parliament, which is holding up tho debate on the Ottawa agreements. Fears are expressed that his condition is so serious that he may be compelled to resign from the Ministry.—Press Association cable. The death has occurred at Suva of ex-Matron Straube, 78, who was trained by Florence Nightingale at the training home attached to St. Thomas’s Hospital. London. Mrs Straube, who was a Miss F. C. V. Webster-Wedderburn, went to Fiji after being selected by Miss Nightingale for service as the first matron of the old Suva Hospital in 1892, She married Mr Paul Straube 25 years ago.

New Plymouth exchanges note the death there, aged 81, of Mr Thomas B. Wheeler, one of the pioneers of that province. Born a fortnight before the Castle Eden, with his parents and several other “Canterbury pilgrims’’ on board, reached Port Lyttelton, he was taken to Taranaki some three years later and has resided there ever since. For 14 years he was a member of the Armed Constabulary, and saw a good deal of service against “rebel’’ Maoris. Strangely enough, the only surviving “Pilgrim’’ is Mrs Aaron Marsh, Fitzroy, Taranaki, who was also born on the Castle Eden, her maiden name being Emma Coad.

The marriage of Miss Beris Kingsford Smith, only daughter of Mr and Mrs Harold Kingsford Smith,, of San Francisco, and niece of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, to Mr John S. W. Stannage, was celebrated in Sydney on 4th October (states the “New. Zealand Herald’’). The ceremony was very quiet owing to a recent family bereavement. The bridegroom, whose parents reside in England, was the wireless operator on Sir Charles Kingsford Smith’s trans-Atlantie flight, and was also a member of the crew of the aeroplane Canberra which left Sydney to search for the lost Souther.. Cross in 1929. The bride had been staying with her grandmother, Mrs Kingsford Smith, senr., of Longueville, Sydney.

Dr. Edward Pohan Ellison, director of the 'Division ox Maori Hygiene since 1927, has been appointed a commissioner of the High Court of the Cook Islands. Dr. Ellison was born at Waikanae in 1884 and he was educated at Te Aute College and Otago University. In 1919 he was appointed resident medical officer at Niue Island, and in 1922 he was Resident Commissioner at the Island. Later he was resident magistrate and medical officer for the Chatham Islands. In 1925 he took a post-gradu-uate course in surgery and visited Samoa to study tropical diseases. He also studied at the Makogai leper station, and in 1926 was chief medical officer for the Cook Islands and Resident Commissioner.

There passed away suddenly yesterday Mr Andrew Guy, a gentleman who has been closely associated with the public activities of Palmerston North for a long period of years. Born at Picton 66 years ago, Mr Guy’s younger days were spent in Napier, and as a student at the Napier Boys’ High School he prepared the way for his career at law. At the age of 24 he went to Palmerston North where he set up in practice on his own account. However, in 1913 he retired from the legal profession to take up farming. Nevertheless, he continued his interest in public affairs and, in addition to having been a member of the Manawatu and West Coast A. and P. Association and of the Manawatu Drainage Board, he had on two occasions occupied a seat on the City Council. His passing thus loses to the city and the Manawatu one of its best-known resideaU. ,