PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 January 1926, Page 10

PERSONAL.

Mr. G. H. Saunders, of New Plymouth, is seriously ill, his friends will regret to learn. Mr. L. Little leaves this morning on a motor trip to the Waitomo Caves and the King Country. Mr. and Mrs. E. Bary, of Ehham, are spending a month's holiday in New Iffymouth. Mr. E. L. Mason, of Westown, leaves this week on an extended trip to the Old Country. A London message says that Mr. Rudyard Kipling, who was 60 years old on Wednesday, is making a good recovery from his illness. - The friends of Mr. N. H. Papakura, of New Plymouth, will regret to learn of the death of his wife, which took place on Wednesday. Mr. Papakura has become widely known in musical circles v throughout New Zealand, and also abroad, and his many friends all over the Doni nion will sympathise with him in the loss he has suffered through the death of h’s wife at a comparatively early age. Commissioner Lamb, with Mrs. Lamb, is arriving in New Zealand on January 4, and will be in the Dominion for four weeks enquiring into and speaking, upon the work of immigration. He is the head of the Salvation Army immigration department. He will be in New Plymouth on the 26th, and will meet the Chaml>er of Commerce and others interested in his work. The commissioner is a man of great gifts and powers and for many yearswas private secretary and chief of staff to General Booth. The death occurred at his son’s residence in Wellington, at the age of 78 years, of the Rev. John Crewes, who has been well known in ecclesiastical circles in Wellington for nearly forty years. Mr. Crewes was born at Grampound, Cornwall, in 1847, and arrived in New Zealand in 1879, taking up work in Christchurch in connection with the Bible Christian denomination. He went to Wellington about thirty-five years ago, and his abilities as a preacher, lecturer, and journalist have become well known, and been much appreciated. While in Christchurch he published, and was the virtual editor of “The Liberal Herald,” a paper which strongly supported the policy of tho late Mr. Seddon. Mr. Crewes was an energetic social worker, and was a pri-son-gate missioner. At one time he was chairman of the Conciliation Board in Wellington. He was also a Justice of the Peace. At one stage of his career, while in Canterbury, Mr. Crewes aspired for political honours, contesting against Sir Julius Vogel. Mrs. Crewes predeceased her husband twelve years ago, and the surviving family consists of one daughter ahd three sona-