PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume LXII, Issue 15307, 21 February 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL.

# The City Engineer (Mr J. G. LittleJohn) was absent from the City Council meeting last evening owing to illness.

It was reported last night that the Mayor (Mr W. W. Snodgrass), who is suifering from influenza, was much better.

,Mr W. Atkin, of the "Westport News," was in Nelson yesterday on his way to attend the meetings of the 'United Press Association, the Master Printers' Association, and the Newspaper Proprietors' Association at Wellington.

Master Harry Newman, eldest son of Mr W. Newman, of .Newman. Bros.' motor service, who has been spending a holiday with his father in Christehureh, had the novel experience of taking a flight with Lieutenant Euan Dickson, of the Sockburn Aviation School, over Lyttelton and Christehureh, reaching an. altitude of some 3000 ft. He is believed to be the youngest boy to take a flight of this nature in the Dominion.'

Mr P. J. Dunne, a well-known resident of Ohakune. formerly a member of the literary staft of the "New Zealand Times,'' and for many years editor of the "West Coast Times," is lying seriously ill in a Wellington private hospital.

Mrs Simeon (wife of Major G. E. Simeon, of the Samoan Force and the New Zealand Rifle Brigade), has a distinguished record of war service, having done canteen and hospital work and risen to be Deputy Assistant Commandant of the Women's Air Force.

Engineer-Commander E. Low, D.S.O. R.N.K., son of the late_Captain J. p! Low, for many years narbourmaster and _pilot at Nelson, returned to the Dominion by the Union Company's turbine steamer Wahine. Engineer-Com-mander Low has been in the Wahine since she left Isew Zealand and has served continuously, gaining his D.S.O. for meritorious services on the vessel whilst engaged in war work.

One of Invercargill's early settlers passed away recently in the person of Captain Angus M'Lean, at the age of 83 years. Captain M'Lean was born in Scotland, and after following the sea he came to Australia and spent some time seeking his fortune in the Victorian, goldfields, coming to New Zealand in the early 'sixties. At Invercargill he engaged" in lightering, and became one of the best known and respected residents of the town. He was a member of First Church and the Court Star of the South, No. 2, Lodge.

Mr.H. M. Didsbury, who, with Mr H. A. Marriner, is to manage the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Insurance Company, is at present in Wellington. He has relinquished the duties of manager at Dunedin to take tip the more important position in the northern city. At Dunedin his place is to be filled by Mr H. W. Kelly, at present manager tJr the company's Wanganui branch. The -vacancy at Wanganui is to be filled by Mr Noel Nelson, who recently returned from, Singapore, where he acted as relieving manager for some time.

Mrs Eliza Jane Priehard. whose death occurred at New Plymouth recently, though a resident of New- Plymouth for something iike 30 years, was a member of a family better known in the Marlborough and Nelson districts. Born at Kiehmond, England, in 1832, and therefore in her 81st year, she come out to Nelson at the "age of nine years with her parents, the late Mr and Mrs Charles Harley, in the ship Lord Auckland, arriving in 1842. In 1852 she married Mr Henry Godfrey, of Woodbourne, Marlborough, who died in 1868. Ten years late, in 1878, she married Mr Evan Prichard, who also predeceased her. . •.., ■ :