PERSONAL

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 272, 27 October 1931, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr. W. J. Poison, M.P., was a passenger hy the mail train for Welling ton to-day.

Constable Chestnutt, of Raetilii, who was stationed at Strattord for a number of years, paid a visit to old friends over the week-end, and left by the mail train to-day on a week’s holiday in the North Auckland district.

]\]r. N. H. Tunnicliff, assistant at Cornwall Park School, Auckland, has been appointed to succeed Mr. Taylor at the Stratford Primary School, and will probably commence duties on December 1.

Mrs. E. Hamilton, widow, who is at present teaching in Fiji under the Education Department, has been appointed to til! Miss Gernhoefer's position at the Stratford Primary School, having been highly recommended by the department.

Lieutenant-Commander J. D. Prentice, executive officer on the training ship Philomel, is to be relieved at the beginning of next month. He will leave for England, via Australia, on November IU. Lieutenant-Commander Prentice will be succeeded by Lieu-tenant-Commander P. A. Berry.

The death has occurred at Timaru of Mr. John Lishman Potter, aged 9S. He was the last survivor of the Eureka Stockade fight in Victoria in 1854, in which he served under Peter Lalor, the rebel leader. He afterwards took part in the Gabriel’s Gully gold rush.

The Very Rev. J. 15. Brocklehurst, Dean of Napier, who suffered injury when the St. John’s Cathedral collapsed during the earthquake, received a presentation from his brother clergy at the Waiapu Diocesan Synod, as a token oi their sympathy in his losses.

Mrs. James Revell, aged BG, who knew New Plymouth in its infancy, and whose mother was the first woman landed by surf boat from the pioneer ship William Bryan, died at Wanganui on Sunday. Her husband, Mr. James Revell, was actually a passenger by the William Bryan; he died at Wanganui five years ago, also aged 86. Mrs. Revell was formerly Mary Sarten, a sister of Messrs. Levi and James Sarten, Tikoraugi. She was born in Currie Lane, where she resided with the Sarten family for a number of years. One of Mrs. Revell’s brothers was killed in the first action in the Maori Wars, at the L pa, Waitara, on March 17, 1860. Another brother a little later in the same year was waylaid by the Maoris and killed in the church lane at Benin. Mr. Revell conducted a blacksmith and wheelwright business in Currie Street, New Plymouth, for a number of years. He was subsequently engaged by the Railway Department and moved to Wanganui, where he died in 1926. Mr. John Revell, Koru, is a sou.