PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 10 May 1930, Page 8

PERSONAL

Mr. G. Goodwin was yesterday reelected chairman of the Opunake Power Board.

Mr. C. S. Mayer, who has been on a visit to Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, returned to New Plymouth on Wednesday night. " Mr. and Mrs. L. McKenzie and family, with Miss McKenzie, of Hastings, are staying at the White Hart Hotel, being on a holiday visit to New Plymouth. The Minister of Mines, the Hon, W. A. Veitch, accompanied by Mrs. Veitch,'the Under-Secretary for Mines (Mr. A. H. Kimbell), and the Minister’s private secretary (Mr. J. M. Sleight), left New Plymouth for Wellington yesterday. The party travelled in. a Ministerial car attached to the mail train.

A London cable reports the death of Admiral Sir Sackville Hamilton Carden, aged 73. He was Rear-Admiral of the Atlantic Fleet in 1910 and was Admiral in 1917. He served in the Egyptian War, 1882, and was in command of the Eastern Mediterranean Allied Squadrons from September, 1914, and of the naval operation at the Dardanelles, including the bambardment and destruction of all the fort j at the■entrance of the Dardanelle until incapacitated by illness in March, 1915.

There passed away the other day at the age of 74 years Mr. Charles Edmund Galwey, an old resident of Wellington, and oim well known in the Public Service some years ago. He arrived in New Zealand with his _people from the North of Ireland in 1876 and was first employed as an extra clerk in the House of Representatives. Subsequently lib joined the Public Works Department as a draughtsman and assistant surveyor, and was located at different times on the West Coast, in Canterbury, Wanganui and Taranaki, as well as at the head office, Wellington. In 1889 Mr. Galwey joined the staff of the Government Insurance Department and was appointed chief computer in the actuarial bianch of the department in 1913. This position ho held until 1917, when he was appointed actuary to the National Provident Fund and Friendly Societies Department. He retir'd from the service in 1921.

The death occurred at Auckland on Thursday of the Rev. Alexander MacLean in his 81st year. Although Mr. MacLcan was forced to retire from the active ministry-some years ago through blindness, he was well known in Auckland, particularly in Avondale, where he was minister for 15 years. Mr. Mac Lean was born in Ross-shire, Scotland. After obtaining his degree in the United States he came to New Zealand in 1881. His first charge was at Waipu, where he ministered to tho Scottish settlers, preaching in the Gaelic language. From Waipu he went to Hawera and while there married Miss Evangeline Wells, a daughter of the late Mr. Benjamin Weils. Mr. Wells was a member of a well-known New Plymouth famiy. Leavin Hawerr in 1891, Mr. MacLcan continued his ministry in the United States for five years, returning in 1896 to become minister of the Presbyterian Church at. Avondale. Mr. Mac Lean is survived by his wife, four sons and two <].■: n ''liters. ’ 7