PERSONAL ITEMS

New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24346, 7 August 1942, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. B. Hope Gibbons, of Wellington, | is at the Central Hotel. Major-General H. E. Barrowclough, D.5.0., M.C., left for the south last > night. ' Mr. W. E. Scott has been appointed a Government member of the New Zealand Dairy Board. Wing-Commander E. Caradus, director of educational services in the Royal New Zealand Air Force, is at the Sta- ; tion Hotel. The Hon. W. E. Parry, Minister of Internal Affairs, will_ receive deputations in the ministerial rooms. Chief Post Office, to-day. He will leave for Thames to-morrow. MARINER'S DEATH CAPTAIN T. V. HILL UNION COMPANY SERVICE The death is reported from Vancouver of Captain Thomas V. Hill, one of ths best-known masters in the-Union Steam Ship Company's service, and a commodore of the fleet. Born in Auckland in ]BBI, Captain Hill served his apprenticeship in inter-colonial sailing ships, including the barquentines Countess of Ranfurly, Senorita and Manurewa. He was also in the crew of the Government steamer trading in the Cook Islands, where he was a popular figure, and he was in the barque Royal Tar when she was wrecked in the Hauraki Gulf in 1901. Shortlv after securing his second officer's ticket, Captain Hill joined the Union Company and was appointed fourth officer of the Manuka in 1905. He was chief officer of the Moura in 1910 and was appointed to the command of the Komata five years later. Other vessels he commanded were the Karori, Atua, Navua, and the first . Kurow and Waiinarino. In the Pacific sen-ice after 1923 Captain Hill commanded the Waikawa, Waitemata, Wairuna and Hauraki before being transferred to the passenger vessels Tahiti and Marama and the tanker Otokia. Captain Hill was in command of the Niagara from 1927 to 1935, except for periods when he relieved in the Aorangi and the Monowai. On the retirement of Captain J. F. Spring-Brown in 1936 he took over the command of the Aorangi and remained there until he was relieved last year because of illness. With Mrs. Hill he settled in Vancouver toward the end of last year. He is survived by his wife and-a married daughter in Sydney. LONG PUBLIC SERVICE DEATH OF MR. J. B. GOW After a long life of public service the death occurred at Opotiki yesterday of Mr. James Burman Gow, who for over half a century had taken a leading part in activities in the Bay of Plenty. He was born in Forfarshire, Scotland, in 1862, the son of the Rev. John Gow, and he was educated at the Otago Boys' High School. At the age of 24 Mr. Gow was elected chairman of the Whakatane County Council and subsequently a member of the Opotiki County Council, of which body, for 20 years and until his retirement, he was also chairman. He was appointed to the Legislative Council in 1918 and served on it for 14 years. He was a member and life associate of the New Zealand Counties Association, had long service with the National Dairy Board and was chairman'of the Bay of Plenty i Power Board. Mr. Gow represented th<» Government at the conference on Pacific Relations held at Honolulu and afterwards at the Empire Parliamentary Conference in Canada. Mr. Gow farmed in the Opotiki. Waimana and Rangitaiki Plains areas. In 1886 he married Miss Agnes Alison Murray, who survives him. with three sons and three daughters. There are 26 grandchildren. ARMY PROMOTIONS NEW ZEALAND FORCES (P.A.) WELLINGTON. Thursday The following appointments and promotions in the New Zealand Military Forces were gazetted to-night:— Major G. P. Sanders, 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force, is appointed a member of the directing staff of the New Zealand Staff College and granted the acting rank of lieutenant-colonel. Captain (temporary Major) E. J. Anderson, commanding the Otago Mounted Rifles, to be lieutenant-colonel. Majors 11. R. Beattie and R. W." Sharp, 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force, to be temporarv lieutenantcolonels and to command field regiments of the New Zealand Artillery. Major C. N. Devery to be lieutenantcolonel while commanding a battalion. Major (local lieutenant-colonel) H- E. Fernyhough, Royal Artillery, is appointed acting-commandant of the Netv Zealand Staff College, vice Colonel (local Temporary-Brigadier) V. F. S. Hawkins, Lancashire Fusiliers. OBITUARY MR. SAMUEL STANDEN Known throughout the Dominion and Australia as a breeder of cattle and Romnev sheep, Mr. Samuel Standen, whose death occurred suddenly in Auckland, was a member of a pioneer family. He was born in Wellington in 1554, his father having arrived from England in IS4I. In his youth, which he spent in the \\ airarapa and Marlborough, Mr. Standen was a fine athlete. He took up land in the Manawatu and subsequently farmed near Te Awamutu until his retirement in 1919. In addition to judging in New Zealand, Mr. Standen was judge at the Royal Show in Sydney ?. hi Melbourne. He is survived by his wife, one son and eix daughters. Another son was killed in action in France in 1917. MR. JOHN CAMPBELL (0.C.) WELLINGTON, Thursday The death has occurred in Wellington of the first New Zealand Government architect, Mr. John Campbell. He . was born in Glasgow in 1557, and studied architecture there before coming to New Zealand in 1882. In the following year he joined the Public Works Department in Dunedin, and in , 1890 became a draughtsman in the building section of the department. He was appointed official Government architect in 1897 and retired in 1922. He was the designer of many public buildings throughout New Zealand. Some of the best-known are Parliament Buildings, the portion of the Wellington Post Office fronting Featherston Street, the Auckland Post Office, and the Dunedin law courts. PILOT-OFFICER PROMOTED Advice has been received by Mr. and Mrs. J. Marra, of Dundale Avenue, Blockhouse Bay, that their son, PilotOfficer T. B. Marra, lias been promoted to the rank of flying-officer. He was trained in New Zealand aud received a commission before he left for Singapore in April, 1941. He was attached to the Royal Air Force and was in action in Malaya until he was sent to India. The promotion takes effect as from last March.