Personal.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 50, 20 June 1914, Page 5

Personal.

Mr Newton King will leave on a trip to England in the course of a week or so.

Mr D. 0. Bates, Government Meteorologist, is now on his return voyage from Australia to New Zealand, via Hobart and Bluff. > un<>

The deatk of Mr Robert Chisholm, managing director of Scoullar and Chisholm, and ex-Mayor of Dunedin, occurred yesterday. The late Mi Chisholm arrived in Dunedin from Scotland in 1858.

Captain McDonald, the well-known officer of the Union Company, lias been appointed marine superintendent in place of Captain Strang, who recently retired on superannuation.

Mr H. E. Johnson, a Hendon aviator, is -on his way to Australia and New Zealand. He expects to reach Sydney next week, and will probably come to the Dominion later. Mr Johnson is a graduate of the Ewen School, and flies the Caudron biplane.

■yft , ’ . ' s Mr Symonds, of the local branch of the Bank of Australasia, who has been relieving in New Plymouth, returned to Stratford last night, and Mr Mahoney, who has been carrying out Mr Symonds’ duties, returned this morning. Mr Mace, of the Bank staff, who'was taken to the hospital to undergo an operation for appendicitis, has now recovered sufficiently to be removed to |his home. i

Mrs Annie M. H. Nielson died yesterday at the residence of her daughter, Monmouth Road, at the age of 86. The funeral is to leave the Hawera Presbyterian Church for the Hawera cemetery on Monday. ' Mrs Nielson was the relict of the late Mr Peter Ludwig Nielson, who died in Haiyera in 1898. Mr Nielson was the first* settler at Kaiapoi, Canterbury, being the first saddler to start business in the town. Retiring from business, Mr and Mrs Nielson visited Denmark,their native country, and on returning to New Zealand Mr Nielson went into a fellmongery business at Fernside, Canterbury. Afterwards he removedto Hawera, where he resided till his death.