PERSONAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 205, 28 July 1928, Page 9

PERSONAL

A London cable message announces the death at Dublin of the surgeon, Sir Arthur Chance, aged sixty-nine. The death occurred in the Waikato Hospital this week of Mr J. S. Colhoun, of Ngaruawahia. who for 16 years was headmaster of the Ngaruawaliia School. A cable message from Sydney announces the death of Mr Phillip Burdett Beading, a leading dental surgeon. Mr Beading had been ill only a few hours. He is a brother of Mr Frank Beading, of Wellington, also of Mr R. Fairfax Beading, Professor of Dentistry at the Sydney University. The deceased gentleman leaves a widow and two children. The death of Mr John Copland White, aged 82, took place this week in Auckland. Mr Write was born at Arbroath, Scotland, and came to New Zealand in the ship Belgravia in 1865. Ho purchased an area of land in the Waitakere Ranges, but subsequently engaged in farming at Tam,aid, where he lived for 40 years. For the last 14 years he had lived in retirement in Auckland. The secretary of the Palmerston North branch of the Commercial Travellers’ Association, Mr J. C. Brown, who shortly leaves to take up his residence in Dunedin, was farewelled by friends during the progress of the ball last evening, when the president, Mr A. B. Hodgson, voiced the regret felt at Mr Brown’s impending departure, and wished hirg and Mrs Brown every success in their new home. The Mayor (Mr A. J. Graham), Mr A. Dawson (chief postmaster), Mr Boss (inspector of the Bank of Australasia) and members of the oommittce were present and associated themselves in the expressions of goodwill to their departing guest. Mr Brown, in responding, expressed the regret he felt on leaving so many friends in Palmerston North, but he hoped the friendships would continue.