PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17428, 24 September 1918, Page 6

PERSONAL

n,v£+ i T amyed ln Dunedin List niolit to make arrangements for the forth™sSason of Allen Doone. +ll i Vlr J; Sweeney who has been foreman in the railway goods yard, Dunedin, for the past nine years, has received notice of his to goods foreman at Palmerston Friday " W for that towll on message reports the \ft ; , Morpeth, town clerk at Jl' V af ' cr a fortnight's illness. The de- ? W? f a l mo , m , bor of a well-known Auckland family, had been town clerk of Waihi since its conversion, into a borough 16 years ago, and in this capacity was a popular and capable official. He took a keen interest m all patriotic matters. He had six sons, all of whom a.re in uniform, two .having made the supreme sacrifice. Deceased was in his sixty-fourth year.- . After an illness lasting a little over a week, Mrfe Sarah Brown, widow of Mr Kobert Brown, passed away at her residence m Oarg-iU street on Sunday morning, aged 86 Mrs Brown arrived here with her husband from Victoria in 1863. They started a business m George street, where it is still carried on by one of the sons, Mr John Brown. ±no other son, Mr James Brown, will be remembered as opening the shop in the StockExchange Buildinsrs. There are four daughters—one in America, another in Melbourne and two (Mrs Patterson and Mrs Waugh) in Dunedin. Mrs Brown was one of the early members of the Christ of Christ in rhmeclin. In her old age she spent irruoh of her time m knitting- socks for the soldiers Referring to the death of Mr E. K. Smythles, the Western Star states: "Deceased camo out to Dunedin with his parents many years ago, and later on returned to England, where he entered a mercantile office, irle again came out to the dominion, and snent some years in mining in Otatro and the West Coast. Ho afterwards founded the well-known sawmillinir firm of Trail Bros and Pmvthies, whose mill was the first to be in the Longwood. At River ton Mr Smythies took an active interest in all matters pertaining to the welfare of the town. Ho was a member of the Borouo-h Council, racincf. golf, and resntta clubs. He was also chairman of tile Atheifeum Committee. . president of the Horticultural Societv. and was a member of the Masonic f-nd OrMMlows' lodges, being W.M. of the former for a term."