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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20448, 30 June 1928, Page 14

PERSONAL.

The Rev. D. Gardner Miller, of Christchurch, arrived in Dunedin last night. During his week-end stay in this he will be the guest of the Rev. W. A" r of the Central Mission. Mr W. S. Cuthbert, of Port Chalmers has again taken charge of the Dunedin ~ranch of the Colonial Mutv.al Life, Assurance Society, Limited, after an absence of 15 months. Mr G. A. Lee, consulting engineer, of Auckland, who has been advising the Bluff Harbour Board on engineering matters, has returned from the south, and will proceed to Timaru next week to act as one of the commissioners appointed by the Government to inquire into the Timaru Harbour improvement proposals. A Press Association cablegram from London states that a movement is afoot to make a world-wide appeal for a fund to recognise suitably the Archbishop of Canterbury’s services at the conclusion of 25 years as Primate. Mr Thomas George Marlow, of Auckland, one of the pioneer commercial travellers in New Zealand, celebrated his 00th birthday on Wednesday. Mr Marlow was born in London in 1837. After serving an apprenticeship to a London draper, he worked in the city until he was 26. Hope of getting a better position in the colonics took him abroad, and he sailed to Melbourne in 1864 in the Winifred. The steamer Hero brought him to Otago in the following year, and Mr Marlow took a position with the drapery firm of Herbert, Haynes. Later he joined Ross and Glcndining, and saw the foundation of the company’s wholesale business. For 19 years he lived in Dunedin, and he first saw Princes street as a cutting through Bell Hill. The building of the First Church and the laying out of the Octagon are remembered by him. At that time Sir Robert Stout was an assistant school teacher, and Sir James Mills, managing director of the Union Steam Ship Company, was a boy in the shipping office of “ Johnny ” Jones. The firm of Hudson and Co. had a little bakery. Joining Bing, Harris, and Co. as a traveller, Mr Marlow was “ on the road ” from Auckland to the Bluff four times a year. Going to Auckland in 1881, he joined Archibald Clark, and travelled for that firm. Later he took up farming ■with his sous at Katikati. and then for the last years of his working life he was on the clerical staff of the Waihi Gold Mining Company at Wai!;ino. Not until he was 84 years of age 1 1 id Mr Marlow retire from active work.