PERSONAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18439, 19 June 1920, Page 9

PERSONAL.

The Hon W. Noßworthy was a passenger by the Maori yesterday morning.

Professor Macmillan Brown returned from the north by yesterday's ferry pteamer. The British Chamber of Commerce ?assed a resolution regretting Sir 'nomas Mackenzie's retirement from the High Commissionership for New Zealand as a national loss and. hoping that means can be found of retaining his services in England. A Press Association telegram states that Mr J. W. J. Preston, Gisborne manager of the Union Steam Ship Company, who has been transferred to the Dunedin office, was met by representative citizens yesterday and presented .with a well-filled wallet. On June 9 My Walter Crowe, late bf 436, Cashel Street, Linwood, passed away at bis residence, Macau lay Street, Addington, after an illness of six months' duration. Mr Crowe came to New Zealand witb his parents, tho late Thomas and Elizabeth Crowe, in the ship Ambrosine in the year 1859. His younger clays were spent in Oxford, but on his marriage in 1881 ho commenced business-in Linwood as a baker, where he was a resident for thirty-nine years. Mr Crowe was a highly respected member of the MoorJumse Avenue Church of Christ, and jwas very well known as an enthusiastio jworker "in the cause of prohibition. He leaves a widow, a. daughter, ttt'o boiis ond five grandchildren. The death ocourred suddenly at his residence, IS2, Lincoln Road, yesterday, of ex-Leading Stoker W. E. M'Gorman, of H.M.S Doris; aged twenty-nine years. Deceased, who was the only surviving son of the late Constable M'Gorman, for many years inspector of weights and measures in Christchurch, and of Mrs Elizabeth M'Gorman, was a native of Christphurch and was educated at the West phristoharch School. He served an apprenticeship as a wheelwright at Messrs P. and D. Duncan's, but subsequently left to join the Navy, in which ho Berved for about soven years in the Philomel. Pyramus, Pioneer and Doris. He was present at the sinking of the perman cruiser Konigsberg in a South African river. De cefl!? ed roturned after j)eace was concluded and entered the pmploy of the Christchurch City Council.