PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 77, 28 February 1938, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Hon. W. E. Parry (New Zealand Minister of Internal Affairs) and party sailed from Sydney on Saturday for Wellington, states a Press Association messages.

Mr M. Buddie, late of the McMaster Laboratory, Sydney, lias taken up work at the Government veterinary laboratories, Wailaceville. Mr J. F. Filme, of Victoria lately of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, has also joined tlie staff.

The death is announced from Aucklad of Mr Thomas Wareham-Smith,.. aged 63, of London, formerly a director of the Daily Mail. He arrived in Wellington on November 5 on a health trip and visited various health resorts. He proposed leaving by the Awatea on Wednesday last for Sydney and London but took ill on February 16 and cancelled his passage. He entered a private hospital in a feeble state and pneumonia intervened despite skilled medical and nursing care. Mr Wareliam-Smitli was of high standing in the newspaper advertising world and had been described as the brains behind some of the late Lord Northcliff’s greatest revenue producing ventures.—Press Association.

The death has occurred at Wellington of Mr William Barton, of Feat'nerston and White Rock Station, aged oil. He was the third son of Mr Richard Barton, who arrived by the Oriental in 1840. His mother was a daughter of Rev. John Butler, who was in the Bay of Islands in 1818 and built the first church at Kerikeri. The late Mr Barton was educated at Wellington College and Cambridge for the legal profession, from which he retired to take over the management of White Rocks station, which was taken up by his father in 1840. He had many financial interests in New Zealand. He is survived by a widow and five daughters, namely Miss Marie Barton, England; Mrs B. Quinn. South Africa; Mrs E. Lutyens, England; Mrs P. M. Johnson, Mount Torlesse, Canterbury) and Miss Elspeth Barton, Wellington. The widow was formerly Miss Lucy Studholme, of Canterbury,—Press Association.