PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 10100, 14 October 1918, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Private A. B. Haughey, formerly of Masterton. has been killed in action-

Private Frank Harrod. son of Airs P. H-ider. of Masterton. has been wounded.

Private O. Price, of Masterton, is in a hospital in London suffering from gas and trench lever.

Corporal J. B. Adams and Private V. El. Ingram, of Masterton, will return to New Zealand shortly.

Air O. E. Alatthews, permanent head Prisons Department, is at present in Christchurch.

Doctor Frengley, Acting-Inspector-General of Hospitals, is on a visit to Invercargill.

Air E. Hunter has been appointed organiser of the Auckland ■ Labour Representation Committee.

Air George Witty, Al.f., who hai been seriously indisposed, is now well on his way towards restoration to health.

According to the Melbourne. “Argus, 1 there is now no prospect of the return of Air W. M. Hughes (Prime Alinister of Australia) to the Commonwealth before the new year, and, if present arrangements are adhered to, he cannot reach Alolbourne until February.

Air D. E. Parton. who has held the position of telegraph engineer in charge of the Wairarana Bush District for the last four years, has been promoted to Christchurch, where he will superintend the underground operations of the telephone cables in Christchurch city. Mr Parton will leave for Christchurch in a few weeks.

Private Thomas O’Carroll, whft figured so successfully at Miss Estelle Beere’s recent dance recital at the Grand Opera. House, -leaves by the Main Trunk line to-day to fulfil a similar engagement for the Auckland Returned Soldiers’ Association, at His Majesty’s Theatre, Auckland, commencing on October 19th, until the 24th.

Another of the original pioneers ofNow Zealand, in the perspn of . Mr Robert Greenaway, of Wanganui East, has joined the great majority, having passed away yesterday at the age of seventy-eight years, of which seventy years were spent in the Dominion;; He fought in the Maori War, and', the tradition of his family is now being worthily maintained by his son Maurice, who is fighting in Franco. He also leaves a widow, a daughter —Mrs G. Russell, of Rapanui—rand eight grandchildren, to all of whom sincere sympathy in their bereavement will be felt.

The announcement is made of the sudden death in Melbourne of Mr William Steele, manager in Australia .and New Zealand for Messrs Ward, Lock, and Co. Mr fiteelo leaves a splendid record of hard work and faithful^service. ha vine been for over half a'century connected with the firm, which he entered as a bov of 14 in London. In 1884 he founded the Australian branch, and has since done much to' promote the growth of a healthy type of Australian literature for young people, beginning with “the discovery” in 1894 of Ethel Turner, the Australian writer. For many years Mr Steele paid an annual business visit to Now Zealand.

There passed away on Friday a very old colonist, and one of Wanganui s oldest settlers, in the person or Airs Mary Roberts, widow of tho late Mr George Roberts. Mrs Roberts was the oldest daughter of the late Mr John Murray, of Karori, Wellington, and landed, with her parents, in Wellington in the ship Tyne, in the year 1841, and,, with the exception of a trip to England with the late Air Roberts, in' 1858, she had been a residoat of New Zealand since that time. During her long life, Mrs Roberts had seen many of tho ups and downs common to so many of the early colonists. Possessed with a retentive memory, she could retail many of the stirring incidents of the Maori Wars and the hig earthquake days of early Wellington. She leaves behind her two daughters and four sons, nipe grandchildren, and ten great-grand children.

The death occurred on Friday event ing of Air Henry G. Price, at his residence, 2SI, Adelaide road. The late Air Price was born at Buckworth, Victoria, on April 20th, 1857, He was a son of- the late Air Matthew Price, the well-known Warden and magistrate on the West Coast of the South Island in the early days. He was a surveyor by profession, and an old of the Lands and Survey Department, having retired on superannuation in June, 1917, after’ forty-three years’, service. During his official career he carried on extensive surveys in Westland, Hawke’i Bay, and Poverty Bay, and filled the following positions;—Land Transfer Draughtsman’, Wellington; Chief Draughtsman, Napier and Christchurch ; and Commissioner of Crown Lands and Chief Surveyor, Blenheim. Since his. retirement from the service he had resided in Wellington. He is survived by a widow and five daughters. The funeral will take place to day-

Mr M.P., is a natm of New Plymouth, having been born in the town in 1879. He is tho seventh son of the late Mr E. M. Smith, who represented Taranaki for many years in the House of Representatives. He was educated at the Central School, and after leaving school spent a little time in farmink work, hnt was subsequently apprenticed to. and served his time at, tho blacksmithing trade. Soon after the completion of his term of apprenticeship he joined the railway service, and has been employed in the traffic department right up to the time of his resignation for the purpose of contesting the election, at which, time ho was storeman in the local goods department. He has taken the keenest interest in educational matters, and has done much to further their interests not only in Taranaki but in a much wider sphere. Ho has also been a member of t!ic Heard of Governors of tho New Plymouth High Schools for the Inst two years, and is a member of the New Plymouth Technical College Advisory Committee. Ho has never previously contested a Parliamentary election.

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