PERSONAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 July 1935, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mi- fi. Barry, of Heatherlea, who was over a week ago injured as the result of an accident while tree-cutting, is now about again.

The death occurred in Levin yesterday of Mr Percy Lionel Bedingfield', aged s!)_ years, of Matamau, Dannevirke. Coming to 'Levin so'me weeks ago on a visit to his daughter, Mrs Charles A. Beatty, of Essex Street. Mr Bedingfield was taken seriously ill /during his stay- All sympathy will be extended to the bereaved family in •their sad and untimely loss. The funeral will take place at Matamau on Monday.

The death occurred yesterday morning at Ohristchureh of Nurse Sibylla Emily Maude, 0.8. E,, one of the bestknown and best loved women in the Christehurch Hospital, and one who devoted her whole life to work among the sick and poor. As a pioneer of district nursing not only in Christehurch, but in the whole of New Zealand, and as a philanthropist, helper and healer, Nurse Maude had long been one of the most outstanding women in the Dominion. From a small beginning she built up an extensive philanthropic organisation, in which at the age of 72 she still took an active and leading part, and it is largely due to her shining example and tireless activity that similar work has been taken up to a greater o'r less extent over the last 40 years in other centres of the Dominion.