PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 10063, 30 August 1918, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Joseph Thomas Barrett, of the Q.M.. Stores, Trentham, died suddenly 1D Trentham Camp on Tuesday, the probable cause of death being heart failure.

The name of Mr Leonard John Hudson, of the Presbyterian Church ol New Zealand, is gazetted for genera] information as that of an officiating minister under the Marriage Act, 1903. The Colonial Auxiliary Forces Longservice Medal has been awarded to Bandsman Percival Richardson Jackson, 10th (Nelson) Mounted Rifles, who has over 20 years' service to his credit. he following appointments of Registrars of the Supreme Court are announced: —Messrs R. AV. Dyer, S.M. (Napier), J. B. AVilson, SAL (Greymouth and Hokitika), and B. Page, S.M. (Palmerston North).

Surgeon-General R. S. F- Henderson, Director-General of Medical services, .was a passenger by the South steamer last evening. General Henderson proceeds to Dunedin order bo present at the examination of the Medical Corps cadets.

Visiting justices to "Sis Majesty ‘ prisons have been appointed asunder: —Messrs B. D. Mosley, S.M,, and F. K. Hunt. S.M. (Auckland) ;F. A T . Frazer, S.M. (Arlington) : AV. G. K. Rcnrick, S.M. (Rotorua); S. E. McCarthy. o.M. (Addington, Lyttelton, and Pap..rua); R. AV. Dyer, S.M. (Napier).

Mr R. Stone Florance, assistant magistrate of the Gisborne district; who is being retired, lias been twenty-one years on the Bench, and has sat in twenty-one courts in various parts the Dominion. He retains the position of District Land Registrar and Examiner of Titles.—Press Association.

The Rev. R. B. S. Hammond, president of the Australian Alliance for the Suppression of the Liquor Trade, w o was coming to New Zealand to take part in the prohibition campaign, is not now coming. Mr Hammond has resigned from the position of president it is reported from Australia, internal dissensions in the prohibition party being the cause assigned. Mr Benjamin. Blick, of Old Renwick road, Blenheim, has received news that his son, Thomas George Bhck, of the 14th. Reinforcement, died in hospital, somewhere in trance, on August 19th. The deceased soldier, who was in his twenty-ninth year, was educated at the Springland School, and followed farming pursuits in Marlborough and Canterbury before going to the front.

News lias been received (states aWanganui Press Association message) that Lieutenant-Colonel Cecil Humphries, late of Christchurch, had been killed in action. Ho had a brilliant career. He enlisted as a private : with the British forces when the war broke out, and distinguished himself at the battle of Loos. He was the winner of the D.C.M. and Military Cross, and was wounded four times. He was only twenty-nine years old. Mr J. A. Tubbey, of the Union Steam Ship Company’s Auckland office staff, has retired after twenty-eight years’ service with the company. He left for Russell on Tuesday, and before his departure was presented by the members~of the staff with a cabinet of pipes. Mrs Tubbey was also presented with a silver-mounted handbag. Mr A., B. J. Irvine, the local manager, made the presentations on behalf of the subscribers. Mr Tubbey, who has been cashier in the local office for the last sixteen years, previously spent twelve years as purser on various Red Eunnel steamers. The funeral of the late Mr J. H. Pollock took place at the Karori cemetery yesterday morning and was well attended by friends of the ' deceased gentleman. The chief mourners were Messrs vV. H. and H. J. T. Pollock, and. Messrs J. C. Cusack, A. E. Kit to. H. Townsend and B.J R, Wills were pall-bearers. The Rev. C, E. Askew, of St. Mark’s Church, conducted the service at the graveside. Among the numerous wreaths sent were those from the different racing clubs with which the late Mr Pollock was connected, in addition to others from the Athletic Association, Wellington Amateur Athletic Club, and other athletic bodies to which he had belonged.

The late Mr P. Fissenden, of Blind river, ‘whose death occurred on July 27th, at the age of 75, was an old and respected settler of Marlborough (says tho “Express"). He cpme out from the Old Country in the ship Hannibal, landing in Nelson in 1875. He .was then a widower with three young sons, whom he left with a married sister in Nelson. He removed to Marlborough in 1877. and obtained employment os the Starborough station, being engaged by the then manager, Mr H. J. Stace. He proved himself most capable and remained there nine years. He married during that period Miss Taylor, of Nelson. He then rented land in what was known as the Marathon paddock, and farmed it very sne- ( ccssfully for some years. Later on he acquired a block of Government leasehold on the Blind river settlement. One

of his sons by the first wife, and bearing the same Christian name as his late father is a well-known and esteemed settler at Ward. The deceased leaves a widow, six sons, six daughters, and 15 grandchildren to mourn their loss.

A bar to the Military Cross has been awarded to Temporary-Captain Stanley J. A. Beale, ALB., R.A.M.C., Auckland. The Cross itself was won by Captain Beale in August, 1917, for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty when working in an advanced dressing-post. The post Was destroyed by a shell, which killed the other medical officer and an orderly. Although badly shaken. Captain Beale promptly formed another post, and continued to dress the wounded until relieved twenty-four hours later. It was owing to his untiring energy and splendid devotion to duty that many lives were saved. Captain Beale, who is a member of the Society of Friends, is an Aucklander, being a son of the late Air W. J. Beale. He _was educated at Queen’s College, the Friends’ High School, Hobart, and the Auckland University College, afterwards going to the London Hospital, where he obtained his medical degrees. At the outbreak of the war, Captain Beale, who was in practice at Highbury, London, volunteered for active service. Ho is at present serving witi the Royai Air Force, London.

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