PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16982, 19 April 1917, Page 6

PERSONAL

Tho local manager of the United Insurance Company has received advice of tho death, in- Auckland, of Mr L. W. D. Andrews, tho manager of tho company for ISiew Zealand.

On Wednesday afternoon Miss L. Marshall, who has boon connected with the clerical staff of Messrs Turnbull and Jones for the last two years, was pi-csontod with a suede handbag. Mr R. C. Jones, in making tho presentation, referred to Miss Marshall's good qualities, and expressed the regrot felt by himself and staff on her leaving them, but as she was doing this to improve her position she. was to do congratulated.

Mr J. H. Walker, chairman of the. Otago Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, ou Tuesday received n pleasant surprise in tho form of a presentation from the nurses, past and present, of tho Forth Street Maternity Hospital. The presentation consisted of a gold Maltese cross bearing the monogram of tho hospital staff. It was inecribod with the recipient's. name, and accompanying the gift was a neat little- crest, with tho words, "A little token of our appreciation of your interest in and consideration for the nursing staff of tho Forth Street Maternity Hospital." Referring to tho death of Mr E. T. Flicker, editor of the Australasian, and formerly p. member of the staff of the Otago Daily Times for several years, the Rev. W. H. Fitchett writes in the" Argus:— "Mr E. T. Fricker's death —and death in h:s prime—is a greater loss to Australian journalism than is easily realised. He had groat qualities, a quick brain, a judgment at once keen and sure, a wiflo knowledge of literature, and—that first secret of style— an jnstinctivo sense not only of the v'altio, bat of the music, of words. His notes on current events in The Australasian wero the best things of their kind in Australian journalism. Mr Frickor was a gentleman by gift of nature, with a goneroue scorn of mean things, and an unshakable loyalty to everything he believed to bo trn-o. Ho could easily ha -i made contributions to b'terature of endurinjr value. But, journalism is a jealous mistress-; and, like many other able men, Mr Friekcr extended on anonymous newspaper ecrvico qualities that might have given his name an endurinsf place in literature."