PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 August 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. A. Morton was yesterday reelected chairman of directors of the Taranaki Producers’ Freezing Works Company. Mr. Justice Salmond, who has been presiding over the Supreme Court sessions at New Plymouth, leaves this morning for Wellington. Mr. Arthur .Hewitt, who lias been a prominent cricketer in Wanganui for ■several seasons, died at Auckland this week.

Mr. W. S. Percy, the well-known comedian, is visiting New Zealand en route to Australia, where he enters on a twelve months’ engagement. A large gathering of the legal profession assembled in the Supreme Court at Christchurch yesterday morning and farewelled Mr. Justice Herdman on the eve of his departure for Auckland.

Mr. John Robertson, whose death occurred recently at Rangiora, was one of the early settlers in the Ashley district. He was born in Perthshire, Scotland, in 1938, and received a liberal education at the Perth Academy. He came to Lyttelton in the ship Mermaid in J 864. Sir John Findlay, whom one of the London dailies recently described as “Minister of Defence, New Zealand,” is returning to the Dominion, with Lady Findlay, so as to arrive in Wellington by the beginning of October. He has entirely recovered from his recent illnese. Mr. H. C. Cameron, Immigration Commissioner in London, who intends returning to New Zealand at the end of the present year, is (it is reported.) to be invited to contest the Bruce seat at the next election in the Reform interests.

At the annual meeting of the Taranaki Producers’ Freezing Works Company yesterday votes of sympathy were passed with the relatives of the late Messrs. W. E. Percival (Inglewood), W. Richards (Cardiff) and W. J. McKee (Omata). Feeling reference was made to the loss the industry had sustained by their deaths.

The death has occurred at Palmerston North of an old. resident of the district, in the person of Cecil Augustus Victor Hetezzi de Oortando, Baron von Blaremberg. The deceased gentleman, who was seventy-eight years of age, had. resided in New Zealand for fifty-three years, and was generally known as Mr Blaremberg. He formerly conducted a private school, but had been in bad health,for many years past. By the last European mail Mr. E. Griffiths, of New Plymouth, received a letter from Mr. J. Fedorowicz, formerly manager of the Blenheim Oil Company’s bore at Mqturoa. He says he is doing well as manager for an English oil comp my in Roumania. Recently he visited Vienna, which when he was last there, two years ago, was in a state of abject misery, the joy of life having gone out of it. He found it greatly transformed. “It is already again very nice,” as he puts it in his quaint English.

Lord N'qrthcliife arrived in Auckland yesterday by the Makura on a short visit to New Zealand, and was entertained at a luncheon by the newspaper proprietors, at which the acting-Premier (Sir Franeits Bell; was present. He was accorded a civic reception at” 2.30. A reporter describes him os the most genial and considerate man you could possibly imagine. His face suggeste power, but there are none of the marks of an autocrat about him. Everybody, on the Makura sang "He’s a Jolly Good Fellow” when he left on Thursday night, and they really meant it. Lord N.rth. cliffe left Auckland for Hamilton last night.

An interesting and enjoyable family gathering took place on Monday night at the residence of Mrs. J. Walker, senr., Hawera, the occasion being Mrs. Walker’s 79th birthday. Mrs. Walker, who came to New Zealand from Scotland over 40 years ago, lived for many years at Waverley. Four years sgo ehe came to live in Hawera. The family consists of six sons and five daughters, and all were present at the gathering except one son who lives at Gisborne. Other members of the family present included sons from Hastings. Feilding, Waipawa. and Waverley. The evening was spent in general conversation and music, many of the old Scottish eongs being sung, in which Mrs. Walker, aer., look pert. The family’s numerous friends throughout Taranaki will be pleased to know that Mrs. Walker is in the best of health, and though she hue long passed the three score year® and ten time has dealt very kindly with her. and she m still in full possession of her faculties and is as active as she was years ago.—Star.

Mr. Alfred Arnaud Morris McKellar, who died at his residence. Riccarton. on Monday night, at the advanced oge of 85 years, had been in ill-health for some time. He was a son of Dr. Dugald Me. Kellar, of Argyllshire, and lute of Battersea and Madeira. He was educated at Christ’s Hospital (Bluecoat School) and the Hertford and London branches. He came to New Zealand in the barque St. Michael, which arrived at New Plymouth on December 2, 1852. With his brothers he took up land in Taranaki, and later fought in the. Maori war from its outbreak in 1860, having the rank of captain in the New Zealand Militia. He went to Christchurch in 1863, joining the C.Y.C. when Sir Cracroft Wilson was in charge. He went to Timaru in the early seventies, and returned to Christchurch in 1878, practising as a public accountant, and was one of the founda. tion members of the New Zealand Insti. tute of Accountants. Hb leaves a widow and a family of three—Messrs. Arnaud and Cecil George McKellar, accountants, in Christchurch, and Mrs. o. G. Rutherford, of Kowai Bush.