PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11250, 30 June 1922, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Mr R. A. Campbell, of Durban, So util Africa, H visiting the Dominion. .dr C. Reginald Ford. P.N.Z.1.A., . F.S.Arc., leaves for Wuugunui to-day. The appointment oi Mr Alexander D. Park a.-i tecreiary lor Cue Marine Department was gazetted yesterday, Tlis Honour Mr Justice Adame, who has been pre-biing over sittings of tbo Supreme Court r.n the West C<Kt6t, has returned to Christchurch. Dr Undo Ferguson, of Dunedin, has been visiting Wellington in connection with the mootings of the Medical Hoard and the Board oi Health. Mr \Y. G. De Gruchy, joint manager of the C. <md D* Shipping Line, returned to Welling'.on from Auckland yesterday. Messrs S. R. Cliadsoy and Q. X. Siiurston, of Toronto. Canada, who h’t'o been vLitinsr New Zealand, wore passengers by the Niagara. Mr Henry A. M. Bromfield. solicitor, of Victoria, Australia, has Kaon appointed by the Chief Justice a commissioner t)ie Supreme Court of New Zealand in Victoria. Mr H. I. Graves, Lon. treasurer of ths New Zealand Football Association, left yesterday lor Auckland, in connection with the Australian Soccer team's tour of the Auckland district A Press Association cable message from Sydney announces the death of Dr Fiiward Herring, who was born at the llutt in 18C4. He was the second eon of Archdeacon Herring. Confirmation of the appointment of Sir John Salmond as a member of the First Division of the Court of Appeal and of Mr Justice I locking as a member of the Second Division, was gazetted last evening. Mr E. C. Gannaway. for nearly twenty rears a member of the Kelburn Bowling 1 Club, was elected a life-member of the club last evening. A silver plate, suitably inscribed, is to be affixed to the frame of his photograph in the club’s social room. Mr F. Meadoweroft was re-elected Wellington Centre delegate of the Kelbura Bowling Club, unopposed, la*t evening. Mr F. T. R. Johnson, president of the club, congratulated Mr Meadoweroft on his election as president of the Wellington. Bowling Association for the third time. Mr Limbrick, late of Hawke’s Bay, is now a resident of Plimmerton, and has decided to once again enter public life by consenting to *tand for election a* councillor at the forthcoming election of the Hutt County Council, caused by the resignation of Mr Barclay. .Mr Limbrick’s experience in municipal matters should stand hm in good stead. Reference to deceased bowlers was made by Mr F. C. Widdop, retiring president of the Kelburn Bowling Club, at the club's annual meeting last evening. In tho death of Mr S. H. Undorwooo, the centre, he said, had sustained a great loss, and a respected ex-member of the club, Mr David Miller, had recently passed away in. Australia. A motion of sympathy with the relatives of these gentlemen was carried. Mr W. W. Blakemore, late of the Royal Air Force, is at present on a short visit to his relatives in Canterbury. During the war Mr Blakemore was attached to the 29th Training Squadron at IletforcT, England, with the rank of flight-lieutenant, and he had a share in the training of many New Zealand. Australian, and American aviators. He also had a good record of Home defence eir work. Since the war, Mr Blakemore has done a great flying in Africa, India, China, Japan, and Australia. He is now on the staff of the Shaw-Eosf Aviation Company, in Melbourne. The death occurred, at the age of of Mr Richard Harman, at one time best-known boatbuilder. The late Mr Harman went to eea as a youth, and was at one time a seaman on tha Royal yacht Victoria and Albert. ITe was a leading seaman on the warship which Viscount Jellicoe first joined as a midshipman. He won the Royal Humane Society's certificate for saving life. On completing hi 3 time in the Navy, he name to New Zealand, and wc.s well known here for many years as a boatbuilder. Hia boatshed at Waterloo quay was in its day the centre ol boating life on Wellington's waterfront. A private oable from Sydney announces tho death of Mr David Miller, who for many years occupied the position <? Chief Postmaster at Napier, Wanganui and Wellington, and Chief Inspector of Post Offices. He leaves a widow and two sons—Mr David Miller, of Hawke's Bay. and Mr William Miller, of the Bank of New Zealand, yPalmerston North. The late Mr Miller was one of the most capable officers of the Tost and Telegraph Department, where his record of work and friendship was Well-known. He was an enthusiastic and skilful bowler and was president of St. John’s Club, Wanganui. Mr John Murphy, a pioneer of the Wairarapa district, passed away at his residence, Rima street. Miramar. The late Mr Murphy, who was 86 year* of age, arrived at Melbourne sixty-seven rears ago in the ship Queen of the Beas. and a vear later came over to New Zealand. ' He spent practically the whole of hi* life in Featherston, where he was engaged in farming. He took a prominent part in local affair*. He was one of the founders of the co-operative dairy factory in Featherston. At a rare » meeting held on the occasion of the Duko of Edinburgh's visit many years ago, he won two heat s on a horse named Recruit. Air Murphy, who was predeceased by his wife some twelve year s , is survived by a grown-up family of twelveeight eons four daughters. Advice has been received of the deaV of Mr William Francis .St. George, which occurred at hi* home at HereVio, South WcstLand. Tho late Mr St. George, who was 33 years of age, was a son of Mr and Mrs D. vSt. Georgs, a retired chief postmaster of Invercargill. Mr St. George, who was a member of the loth Canterburv Reinforcement and saw four years of active service, was wounded at- the Somme during tho retreat. On returning to the West Coast lie took up farming, at which occupation he remained till his death, which occurred most unexpected*y ps a result of heart trouble, due To war service. He is survived by his wife