PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 10086, 27 September 1918, Page 3

PERSONALIA

A cable message announces the death of Archbishop Ireland, of St. Paul, Minnesota. United States. Mr E. A.. Pollard, inspector of scaffolding, is at present confined to his home through indisposition. On account of their approaching marriages, Nurses- McDonald and O’Callaghan and Sister JJaphyn have resigned from the staff of the hospital.

Messrs Mason and Petherick have been appointed junior clerks to tne Hospital Beard in place of Messrs Hambly and Nicol, who have resigned their positions. Dr Hislpp .(hqn. ,surgeon to .the hospital)“has been granted extended leave by the Hospital Board owing to his haw* ing undertaken.-, military duties. Dr Holmes has been appointed--to fill ther vacant position.

Dr Morton, house surgeon at ihe 'Wellington--Hospital, is resigning from the hoard’s ■ service. The resignation, which takes effect from October 7th. was accepted with regret hy the board at its-.meeting..yesterday. ■;

Captain Charles E. 1 Orr-Walker (military representative to the First Wellington Military Service Board), who has been laid up with pleurisy for some months', has recovered and will re-join" ’the'"Board“a't 'Wanganui’ on Monday '‘ifextU '■ Gunner A. Whittaker, who is reported as wounded,, was for six years a member'of the dommercial staff of the “New, Zealand Times.’’ Gunner Whittaker was “gassed” on September .2nd, and is now in hospital in England. His relatives reside at Lyall Bay.

The Hospital Board has decided to retain the services of Mr Bond (actingdental- surgeon) for a further period of six months, or until such time as Mr Bender -is released from military duties, and resumes his position on the staff. Advice has been received in' Foston that Gunner L. A. Daniell, N.Z.F.A., is roturuiuK to New Zealand on furlough in a fortnight’s' time after over three years' 1 of war. Gunner Daniell has served in Egypt. France and Belgium, where he was badly wounded in October of last Tear. Among these who recently returned to Now Zealand from France was Sergeant R.. K. McDoncll. con of Mr A. A. McUonelh of Inverhoe, Lower Rangitikei. Sergeant McDoaell, who left with the 11th Reinforcement, was all through the big, engagements on the ji.htil ,he„was dangerously wounded at. Passchendaele. necessitat. ing his return in the Dominion. On September sth Gunner Reginald Skein, the fifth son of the late Mr Ben Skein, of Auckland, and a nephew of Mr Wilson Skein, of the Government Statistician’s Office;' - Wellington, was killed in-action, -n The— deceased soldier wa s horn-and- educated at the Thames,- and 1 before - enlisting' was in the'-Bank "of New'Zealand at Auckland. ■ - s'A‘‘ brother 1 of deceased was wounded recently."-- " ; 1 - Private Austen "E. Reid (M.M.) arrived homo in Carterton on Monday night, and was welcomed on the '.ailway platform bv the Mayor (Mr Gordon Hughanl. Private Reid was dangerously wounded in the right leg in France-some time back;’ and in addition received seven .or . eight- other woundv He- arrived on crutches, and his right-leg is , still useless. He has entered the Masterton Hospital for-fur. ther treatment.- ■ -■ 1

The dea£K“bccuriod “afT'lho plaster-' ton Hospital a few days ago of Mr William Peokin, at the age of 50 years. Deceased, was the son of the late Mr William Peokin and Mrs Caroline Peckin; of Johnaonville. Deceased was horn at Johnsonville. and had been in the Masterton district for twelve years. Ho had been in the employ of Mr. T. W. McKenzie, and was well known in the district. He is one of a large family, and is Survived bv his mother, six brothers, and .four listers. He was a single man, .

Jdomoardier John Charles McErlean, who •-■wes- reported -killed in-action, was the eon of Mrs McErlean, of R-intoul street,- and 1 an ■ officer • of' tho ■ stores branch of tho Post and Telegraph Department. He was a member of St.Anne’s Club. He was-also a prominent • member -of- the- -Hibernian Society, and-for . several- terms .occupied .the. presidential chair of tho St. Aloysius branch, Wellington South. _ _ During his furlough last year ho visited bis parents’ home in Ireland, • and wrote an ~interesting ...account, of ,his travels in that country., ~J

Private W. H. Hampton, reported killed on tho Western front, was at one time president of the Wellington Trades and Labour Council, and took an active part in. trades union work and the Labour morc'rridnt generally. He was a will-read" find 1 ' very 'level-headed mail, and thoroughly"loyal'"to King and country. He was a .great friend of Sergeant. E-- J. Carey (formerly secretary to the Hotel and Restaurant Employees’ Union), and, like his friend—though he already had a son it the" front and might well have stood out on account of his age—Volunteered in order t6 , e^pi^',‘by’ i ßfß he" had all" along declared was the duty of the, workers , generally in regard to the world-way. '. Private Hampton leaves a wife and grown-up family, and his many friends will sincerely sympathise with them in their sad loss. Ho was a brother of Mr R. Hampton, president of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants.

The death' occurred recently at Palmerston North of Corporal Cyril Vincent" RC Rabohe,’ after undergoing a Senior Cadet N.C.O. refresher course in that district. The deceased, who wa s the younger son of Mr and Mrs Samuel Rahono, of Karoriy was a very bi'glu lad of sixteen years and cloven months, and gate promise as a Territorial’ N.C.O. He joined the Rase Records branch of the Defence Department as a. cadet. Born in Blenheim, and educated at Ocean Bay School and Nelson and Wellington Colleges, he was regarded as a particularly ambitious youth. He was accorded a military funeral. The family holds a brilliant military record. Four out of Mr Rabono’s six sons have been on active - service. The eldest son, Thomas, is a non-commissioned-officer - in the Bng’neers at Homo; the second son, Captain Clarence Rabono,- Salisbury, Fiiglnnd;' 'having'been ‘on active service and been wounded, on more than one occasion; the third son, Dudley, was a paymaster ,in the camps for eighteen ■ months," being later relented on account'of ill-health; and having' now resumed civilian occupation;’ the fourth boy, Paul, is a senior-sergeant on a hospital ship due shortly, ■ this being-his third trip on that vessel.- The fifth’lad, now farming, comes of . military ago shortly.

Mr and Mrs J. F. Townsend are passengers by the Manuka for Sydney. Mr Rob. Thomas, of the English Pierrots, is returning to Australia by tho Manuka. _ , , Captains P. R. Harper, J. J. -Fade, and J. E. Brown are proceeding to Australia by the Manuka. ; Mr and Mrs B. C. Huie, of Christchurch, were passengers fpr Sydney by the. Manuka, which left, the...wharf at Wellington late last night. .. Mr and Mrs T. H. Lowry, of Hawke’s Bay, were passengers for Sydney by the Manuka, which left the • vrharf last night for tho stream. i Mr W. A. Hudson, of Cocks and Co., 1 Welington and Sydney, is returning to Sydney by the Manuka, sailing early this morning from the stream. > A London Press cable states that Ser- . geant Ben Uzzsll, a noted footracer, yvvho was serving with the New Zealand 'forces, lias been killed in action. Captain Charles McArthur, who, has I been on a business trip to .and Sydney, returned to Wellington yesterday via Auckland. Among the passengers for Sydney hy the Manuka, which is to leave Welling- ; ton stream at daybreak this morning, are Mr and Mrs J. S. Keith, Mr A. , Boyle (Christchurch), and Major Hud- ; sou. . ; A Press Association telegram from ! Christchurch, reports the death of Dr Walter Thomas, one of the oldest and best-known medical practitioners in i Christchurch, aged seventy. He studied ! at Melbourne and Glasgow Universi- j ties, where lie took his diplomas in 1873. Word has been received that Private ; G. Donaldsop, fourth son of Mrs -Don- j aldson, of Lyall Bay, has been, wound- | ed. He left New Zealand a's 'avpri- I vato with the 81st Reinforcement, and ; had seen a considerable amount or - fighting before he was wounded. 1 Before enlisting he was in the employ of ‘ ; Mr Hull, of Molesworth street. - | • Lieutenant Leslie Buchanan (bro* ithor of Mr E. S. Buchanan, M.A., B.Sc., and Mr A. J. Buchanan, M.A., LL.B., both well known at Canter- i bury college in the early ’nineties, and. of Mrs Richmond Hnrsthouso, wife of- 'j Major Hursthouse, N.Z.D.C.), hasjllost his life in France.' 'Before ho',eplisted he was on the editorial staff ;'df the . : Darling Downs “Gazette,” Queensland. , ,|

Mr H. R. Burgess, of Parkvale, has received adiico that his brother. Private J. Burgess, has been killed in action in France. Private Burgess enlisted from Auckland, and had been awav for about 18 months. He was the second son of the late Mr H. Burgess, and waa bom at Clareville, and spent his earlv life in Carterton district huti had been awav in Auckland for some years.

Before the commencement, of tht general business at the meeting of fifa Hospital Board yesterday afternoon, the chairman (Mr H. Baldwin) referred to the loss sustained by the community by the death of Mr R. Fletcher, M.P., who at one time was a progressive member of the hoard. The resolution was carried by the nie-mhers standing. and the secretary was instructed to forward a letter-of'sympathy to the relatives of the deceased. Wellington athletic circles have lost a familiar figure by the deatir or - Lance-Sergeant C. Clementsou, who was killed in action. ,He was a'prominent hockey player, and on several occasions represented Wellington. Leaving New Zealand two years ago with tho 17th Reinforcement, he was wounded ■ twice before his death. The deceased soldier; who was 1 an-'Only child, waa in the employ of Mr George Winder for eleven years. Deep sympathy will be felt for the relatives of tho deceased soldier by a wide 1 , circle of friends.

Tho death occurred at Nelson -;; last week of Mr Andrew Birrell Hughpj, in his 79th year. The deceased came to New Zealand with the machinery to establish a foundry at Greymouth, where ho remained for some years, afterwards heine connected with tho -Anchor Foundry, -Nelson, until his-retire, ment several years ago. -His wife pro. deceased Jiim by two .Wars.»~-T>hey; aro survived hv two daughters {-Mrs- G. W,„.. Boundy.. .. MotueknV 'end 'Miss Hughes, Nelson) and one son, Private A.,, Hughes. .M.M... who-is ..on -active-ser-vice.,., MM Wrt Don’t speculate; ring Stanton -.and Evans. Molesworth street. Open, and closed-in cars for hire; garage and repairs. Under Yicc-ivegal patronage. ’Phone 2240 r *