PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume LXII, Issue 1524, 20 November 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL.

■jut lorn lollard, who has undertaken the production of the opera, "Paul i*ones, ' for the Nelson amateurs, will arnve in xNelson this morning. A Press Association telegram from Wellington announces the appointment or Mr John Collins {secretary of the Board of Trade) to the position of secretary of Industries and Commerce. Mr J. E. Allen, manager of the .Public Irust Office at Nelson, has been notified of his transfer on promotion to Palmerston North as deputy-Public Trustee there. Mr Allen will take up his new duties on January Ist, 1920. Major Arnold W. Izard, of Wellington, has returned to New Zealand after a lengthy absence on war service. Ho saw active service in France and latterly was at medical headquarters in London. Dr. Truby King, who went to England in the interests of the Babies of the Empire movement after having seen the Piunket Nurse system well established in New Zealand, left for Austria and Poland some weeks ago to note for himself the effect of war rations Upon the children of those countries. The death has occurred of the Rev. L. Carsley Brady, who lias resided for 36 years iv South Canterbury. He was prepared for the ministry at St. John's College, Auckland, was ordained deacon in 1870, and priest in the following year. Mr G. Simpson, who has been at the Bruce Woollen Mills for a period of 17 years as mill manager, has received an appointment to the Wellington-Waira-rapa Meat Company, Masterton, to adrise in the erection of a new woollen mill to be constructed at that place. Mr Simpson, who has hud a 'varied experience at the Kaiapoi and Bruce Woollen Mills, leaves for England by the Arawa on his new employers' business early next month for the'purpose of acquiring the latest ideas and machinery. He expects to be away at least six months.

Miss Maud Beatty, formerly of Pollard's Opera Company, announces her definite retirement from the stage. She ' is to be married again, and will live in, one of the South American republics.

The late Mrs John Aiken, who died at Christchurch on Sunday, was one of the old colonists of the Dominion, hwms, arrived in Nelson in 1859 with her two brothers, the late Mr Joseph. Garrard and the Hon. Jacob Garrard of! Sydney. A few years later, after her marriage, the deceased lady went to Christchurch with her husband, and remained there till 1899, when they left for England, living there until about six years ago, when they returned to the Dominion. Her husband predeceased her by about 18 months. The deceased lady leaves one sister, Lady Kinsey, and two brothers, Mr W. Garrard and the Hon. Jacob Garrard, of Sydney.

The death has occurred at Te Araroa, Poverty Bay, of Nurse Elizabeth Joan Ensor,"daughtersof Archdeacon and Mrs Ensor, of Christchurch. She died literally at the post of duty, for she was engaged in nursing Maori typhoid patients when she caught the disease that resulted almost immediately in her death, at the early age of 26.