PERSONAL ITEMS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 15 September 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr Myers-ough, Trinity College music examiner, is in Hawera to^lay conducting tho annual practical examinations of tlie College. The death is announced of Mr H. 0. Ledger, a leading resident of Nejson. He was 83 years old.-—-Press Association, j Mr F. K. Reeves, the well-knovyji Wellington journalist, for some _f. years a member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery, has been appointed for the coming session private secretary to the Leader of the Opposition, Mr T. M. Wilford. The death occurred at Petone on Monday last of Mr Walter Herr-His-lop. Tho deceased, who was well Known in Wellington, served 'throughout the war with the N.Z.F.A.. both on Gallipoli and in France, sustaining serious wounds from shellfire. He was a civil engineer by profession. Death was duo to pneumonia and pleurisy. Mr. M. P. Cameron, the hardware and machinery expert to the Customs Department, will retire at the end of I this, month after over 17 years' service, I having joined the Department in April, ! 1904, states the Dominion. He assisted the Hon. J. A. Millar, Minister of Customs', when tho 1907 tariff was enacted, and has just completed his labours as a member oi the Royal Commission on tho new tariff for 1921, which completed its sittings at the end of last month. Mr Cameron had a serious breakdown in health during the war when undertaking honorary extra duties in connection with." the purchasing of hardware requirements for the Defence Department. He has never thoroughly recovered from the breakdown. Mr. James Kellow, one of Wellington'^ most respected citizens, died on Sunday evening, after a short illness, which supervened on one of longer standing. The late Mr. Kellow was born in Guernsey, in the Channel Islands, and was educated at St. Servian's College, in St. Malo, France. As a young man he mado a trip to Ontario, Canada, but did hot settle there, as he returned to Guernsey, and when 21 years of age married, and shortly after left England in the barque Edwin Fox, arriving in Wellington in the year 1874. Mr. Kellow was favourably impressed with the prospects of the place at that time, anu determined to take up his residence there. He followed the vocation of a public accountant, and for some years past had conducted a business in partnership with his son, Mr. Ernest Kellow. Tho late Mr. Kellow was of a retiring disposition, noted for his rectitude and unwavering integrity of character, and for his genial and kindly disposition. For many years he was a prominent office-bearer in the Taranaki Street Wesleyan Church. In Masonry he was a very old member of Pacific Lodge, and for twenty ytars he had been a member of the Victoria Bowling Club. He leaves a widow and three sons. ' The sons are: Messrs Ernest Kellow, public accountant; Mr. Albert Kellow, manager for Messrs' Levin and Co. at Feilding; and Mr. Wilfred Kellow, secretary of the Gear Meat Company.