PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16035, 29 September 1915, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mb. and Mrs. C. Buddie arrived in Auckland from Wellington yesterday. They are staying at Cargen-

Mr. and Mrs. James Milne, of Masterton, are at present on a visit to Auckland. They are guests at the Royal HoteL

A motion of sympathy with the widow and family of the late Mr. Alexander Wiseman was passed at yesterday's meeting of the Auckland Harbour Board.

Colonel C. J. Cooper, of Cfiristchurch, general manager for New Zealand of the Liverpool, London, and Globe Insurance Company, and coast defence commander, Canterbury military district, is spending a few days in Auckland.

-At the annual meeting of the New Zealand Society of Accountants, held at Wellington, it was announced, savs the Press Association, that Messrs. E." J. Harvev (Marlborough), and J. G. Hutchinson (Canterbury) had been returned as members of the council.

Mr. C. Finlay, late engineer of the Auckland Dock, has forwarded his resignation to the Auckland Harbour Board. At yesterday's meeting of the board the chairman. Mr. H. D. Heather, stated that Mr. Finlay had been for 32 years'in the service of the board, and that he was too old to enter the superannuation scheme. The board decided to grant Mr. Finlay -12 months' leave of absence on full pay His resignation will be accepted at the'end of that time.

Mr. and Mrs. John Taylor, of Victoria Koad, Devonport, yesterday celebrated their golden wedding, they having been married by the Rev. E. N. Bree at St. Matthews Church, Auckland, on September 28, 1855. Mr. Taylor was born in New South Wales, and "came to New Zealand m 1863. He was in the employ of the Auckland Harbour Board for 35 years. ££?,'• Taylor was the eldest daughter of William James and Caroline Wright, and she was born in Auckland in 1847 There are three sons and six daughters living, and 17 grandchildren.

The death of Mr. Robert Hardie occurred at Chnstchurcb yesterdav. It is 50 years since Mr. Hardie came to New Zealand He was a native of Ayrshire, Scotland, and was brought up as an accountant in Glasgow. Arriving in Auckland in 1865, he was for nine yeans in. the North Island, and in 1874 removed to Christchurch, where be was accountant for several firms, and conducted business for himself. He was a member of the Masonic Order, having been initiated in Auckland in Lodge Waitemata, E.C. Mr. Hardie married a daughter of the late Mr. Thomas Hancock, of Newmarket. She predeceased him five years ago.

Mr. H. P. Oakden, of Grev Street, Devonport, who will leave Auckland this evening with the Field Ambulance reinforcement draft, has three sons at the front, on© of whom was reported wounded in one of last week's casualtv lists. Mr. Oakden comes of fighting stock. On hia father's side, there were seven generations of army officers, and on his mother's side a long list of naval officers. Mr. Oakden was a midshipman on a training vessel, but chose the mercantile service, and passed the officers' examinations. He has been one of the mainstays of the ambulance section of the Devonport branch, National Reserve, and last- evening -was the recipient of a presentation from the officer* of the reserve.