PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1928, Page 8

PERSONAL

Mr. J. J. Marlow, of Dunedin, has been visiting New Plymouth. Mr. R. W. Shallcross has been appointed secretary of the Dominion Bowling Association. The Rev. J. F. Martin, of Devonport, and formerly Methodist minister at Fitzroy, is on a visit to New Plymouth. He returns north to-morrow. Mr. Frank Hutchens, a former Hawera boy, was presented with a gold cigarette case upon retiring from the presidency of the New South Wales Musical Association. Messrs. R. Mastere, 6. A. Wilkinson, W. J. Polson and S. G. Smith leave for Wellington to-day to attend the conference of the United Party. Mr. Masters will be the chairman. The death occurred in England on July 23 of Mr. E. D. Westmacott, formerly a very well known resident of New Plymouth, where he carried on the business of an auctioneer. Mr. N. Webster leaves New Plymouth to-morrow for Auckland. Appreciative reference to his services was made at the annual meeting of the Western Park Cricket Club last night. The Wanganui Presbytery has sustained a unanimous and enthusiastic call from St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church, Feilding, to the Rev. G. W. Lochore, of Whangarei, states a Press Association message. Mr. Justice Herdman, Mrs. Herdman and Miss Herdman made a comprehensive tour of Scotland, and then visited Ireland. They will (writes a London correspondent) see more of England and Wales, making motor tours, before leaving London for the South of France.

Mr. J. S. Connett, chairman of the Taranaki County Council, left New Plymouth by the mail train yesterday for Wellington, where he will be a member of a deputation from local bodies to the Prime Minister and Minister of Health in connection with hospital representation matters.

The death occurred at Paeroa, Thames, on September 8, of Mrs. John Allen, aged 82 years. Mrs. Allen was the eldest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Veale, and was born at Holsworthy, Devonshire. She arrived in New Plymouth with her parents in the barque Hamilia Mitchell in February, 1854.

A London cablegram reports tho death of Colonel Sir Edward Ward, aged 75, "’ho did excellent service as head of the Army Service Corps in the South African war. During the great war, though too old for active service, he did good work as director-general of voluntary organisations, president of the Union Jack Hostel, and as chairman of many other bodies.

New Zealand’s Rhodes scholar for 1925, Mr. J. A. Dunnin?, has returned to Auckland. He has been appointed resident master at the John McGlashan College, Dunedin. At Oxford Mr. Dunning gained his B.A. degree, with honours in mathematics. He took a prominent part in sport, just failing to get his cricket blue against Cambridge. Nevertheless he took part in several matches against counties.

The death of Captain W. F. Norbury, formerly in the service of the Northern Steamship Company, Limited, occurred at Auckland on Tuesday. Captain Norbury had charge of all the company's larger vessels at different times. For a ..umber of years he traded on the OnehungaNew Plymouth run in the Gairloch, Ngapuhi and Rarawa. He was also on the Opotiki run. When the Ngapuhi was built in 1900, he brought the vessel to New Zealand. Taking over the Manaia in the Whangarei run he became commodore of the company’s fleet. He was master of the vessel when she was wrecked in the Bay of Plenty in June, 1926. Shortly afterward, Captain Norbury retired owing to ill-health. He saw in all 38 years’ service with the company, and was commodore for 10 years. The funeral will take place at Waikumete cemetery this afternoon.

The death occurred on Tuesday of Mr. James Daniel Climie, of Lower Hutt, at the age of 79 years. Mr. Climie was born at Shrewsbury, Shropshire, in 1849, and after leaving school in 1868 was engaged with his father in civil engineering. In 1870 he came out to Victoria with his father and brother, and practisel civil engineering, and at the same time qualified as a surveyor. In 1875 he came to New Zealand and joined the service of the General Government as a surveyor, under the late Mr. J. W. A. Marchant, then deputy inspector of native surveys. On his appointment as a district surveyor in 1880, Mr. Climie undertook .the original standard survey of the City of Wellington. In 1897 he was appointed inspecting surveyor, and was largely responsible for the maintenance of the very high standard of work in this profession. He was practically the last of that great band of pioneer surveyors who carried out explorations of the back country of this province, and whose work will be an everlasting monument to them. He is survived by his widow and two sons, Mr. Leonard Climie, of the District Lands and Survey Office, and Mr. Percy R. Climie, of Christchurch. There are four arnnd-ehildren.