PERSONAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 120, 21 April 1932, Page 6

PERSONAL

A London cable message reports the death at Montpellier, France, of Sir Patrick Goddes, scientist and sociologist, aged 77. Sir Patrick Geddes, at the time of his death, was professor of sociology and civics at the University of Bombay, professor of botany (retired) at University College, Dundee, senior resident of University Hall Edinburgh, director of the Cities and ’Town Planning Exhibition, director of iho Scots College at Montpellier University, and president of the Sociological Institutes of London, Edinburgh, and Montpellier. Among the officers who will be visiting Palmerston North at the week-end for the reunion of the Wellington Regiment are Major-General R. Young, C 8., C.M.G., D.S.O. (Wellington), Colonel W. H. Cunningham, D.S.O. (Wellington), Colonel J. 11. Holderness (Hastings), Colonel C. H. Weston DS 0 (Auckland), Lieutenant-Colonel F K Turnbull, D.S.O. (Wanganui), Colonel E. P. Cox (Wellington)). A cablegram has been received by Major Hardie from Brigadier-General H. E. Hart, Administrator of Samoa, extending felicitations and good wishes of the regiment. The death has occurred of Mr J. G. Beamish, aged 89 years, an old settler in tho Patea district, who had many experiences during the Maori disturbances. He was present at the fight at Turuturu-Mokai redoubt, about two miles to the south-east of Hawera. It was a night attack and the force, which numbered only 24 men, held the position against great odds. Mr Beamish was severely wounded and Jus brother killed. Later Mr Beamish commenced farming in the district. He was a member of the Patea Borough Council for a number of years, a member of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board the Domain Board, the Patea School Committee, and also churchwarden of St. George’s Anglican Church.

Mr Charles Murray Turrell has been appointed to succeed the late Mr J H C. Bond as Dominion superintendent of the New Zealand Shipping Company. Mr Turrell is _ one of the best-known shipping men in the Dominion, with a record of service with the New Zealand Shipping Company of about 47 years. A son of the late llev. Charles Turrell, M.A., Mr Turrell was educated at his father’s private school, Midmont Riccarton, and at Christ’s College, Christchurch. Mr Turrell was acting-Dominion superintendent for the New Zealand Shipping Company for eight months during 1925, and again held that position for ten months during 1929. He made special visits on behalf of the New Zealand Shipping Company to Fiji in 1901, to South Africa in 1902, and to England and America in 1926.