PERSONAL

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 129, 3 June 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL

General x Sir William Birdwood? at Wellington from Australuiy6sterday afternoon. He will ff» given a civio welcome4 to-niglit.

Colonel I>'Arcy Chaytor, C.M.G., C.8.E., is visiting Motueka, and will bo returning to Blenheim at the.end of the 'week. He only recently left Rotorua, whero he was undergoing treatment at King George's Hospital. A' t Wellington .Press Association: telegram reports ±he death of Mi* M. A. Williams, "aged"9l years." Sn» was ' well-known for. her ( generous benefactions to . religious an«f charitable purposes. "' " "

Yesterday afternoon the member* of the New Zealand Olympic teairt worn ancordod \ civic farewell afr Wellington. 'Mr Massey, -present^t! H. B. Wilson, leader of' the team, with a New Zealand flag:, expressing the hone that the team would carry it .to -victory on many occasions.

A very old and respected resident*f the "Reefton" district, Mr Neat MeOonaohie, was accidentally ournect. to death last week. The decea™<l lived in a lixtt by himself in t&^ Uoper Inangahau Valley, near Mr Watson"s hom^tead, and on Thur°day nrornin-g- the hut was found *&- have been, decoyed by ifire. l The* chaiTed remains of, 'the ■iinfortuP''t«r man were; found underneath the i~ nti which; formed the roofing. T^e> deceased", who was bom in' Scotland, was 90 years of age. '\-:>\'

A: prominent identity of the Ne T >7ott - distri" 4" has rwssed1 away in the peT'^n of Miv! •" Alfred ■ Greenfield. *^»9 deceased, whope'death Qcottrrpd r* his residence, Tory Street, .--on Mor^rty, was. $1 years: age. He was \ at^ Is!i'-"-ton. Hants, being the fr—^]i son of Kr Thomas Greened; >, p^Hci-. tor: nnd he cri^e out to N«w>Zr>"l'*nd: m tho b-^mio darn in I.Bslv;pr""°ed;ing to "Nel°pn with Captain Eraser ' ■'}*■-;1 hrM Tr =18?4 >•> wa". offered and acceptefl ttier: «f55.c0 of ' r.Vrk to +he Rnnr-rintenV l'-"t of. Nelson (Sir W. Stpff"^1),: -firA thns, fi°i ( >'>mTTi«fl""'-ViTis pt.riktng'C —"er in. +.he Prov'Ticinl Government;. He soon become Provincial Beerpt'^'y, and? ho c^enoiV'V r»a'ny irtxTinrirant positionl:. 'nf»lud'""'r those of Commis"."TiPT tof O'-^vn T/ands fof N^lpon. MitiiVg Warden'A w<t Stir>f>ndinrv ; Ma^i^rate. Ai<\ tho chiirmnn of the N^lpon P-MpT Commissid^rs he was lar"""1^ irstrnT^^Tital in foundiner tho fills' Cc-Hesre. Tyuriri"1 I">i"s career n +^n R-ovl CoT^missi^ins annointo'' to deal w^h -irions mfttte->'«. Two sops —Mr Frtmk Gr"enfi^W. nf -the Survey 7>rp-rt""'"Tih. n^ri^"^—" 1!!. and ' M" Frr>d ■ G'-^^neld. of T"^nganui: and two do"^l+prs—Mv- !"'H < of Tviv^t-. ton, ■^r-ii^ipa-, --hd Miss Bessie Groenfl^M, of Nel^n, are Wt t» lof="s. ' Mr<s Grp^^field predeceased her husband in 1911.

At, the monthly stop-york meetin's of the Se.amen'a Union, Md in Wellington on Tuesday, consideration was jxiven to a lettei- received from the In ion Steam' Ship Company recine^t■jng' that arr'anaements should be ■innde for some firemen to remain on. board the vessels on the day_ of fh& meeting in order to maintain sufficient steam pressure far lighting tmtl sfiiiitary purposes. The tmion decided not to accede to the rcg«e»t«