PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 16 October 1931, Page 6

PERSONAL

The funeral of Mr. W. J. Anstis took place at Te Henui yesterday, there being a representative gathering. The Rev. Fordham Clark was the minister. Lieut.-Colonel E. F. W. Lascelles, New Zealand, is standing for the Colne Valley seat in the British election. There are also five Australian candidates. The Rev. R. Miller, Manaia, has late-’ ly received from the Defence Department two medals which have been awarded him for 12 and 16 years’ service with the department.

The Australian flag covered Sir Bertram Mackennal’s moffin as it was lowered into the grave at Torquay, where there was a distinguished assemblage honouring the dead sculptor, states a London cable.

The passengers aboard the Aorangi, which left Vancouver yesterday for Auckland, include Messrs J. W, Randall, a world traveller, London, S. W. Frank, London, W. G. Mcßeth, Melbourne, and A. E. Ney, of Bryant and May, London. Mr. P. G. Stewart, member of the Federal House of Representatives for Wimmera (Victoria) and a prominent member of the Country Party, died yesterday, states a Canberra message. Mr. Stewart was Federal Minister of Works and Railways in the- BrucePage Government. After having lived in or- house for S’! years, Mr. Ashton Buddle Fitchett, of Tanera Crescent, Brooklyn, Wellington, has died at the age of 87. He was born in Wellington,, parents having come to New Zealand two yeais previously. Mr. Fitchett was a dairy farmer at Ohiro, carrying on a wholesale and retail trade in milk. He took over the business which was started by his father in 18'52. He had been a school committee member and was a well-known judge of Ayrshire cattle at agricultural shows. Mr. and Mrs. Duncan McAUum, of New Plymouth, celebrated their golden wedding yesterday. Five of their six children and some of their grand-child-ren attended. Air. and Airs. McAllum came from England in the early days. A seafaring man from Neweastle-on-Tyne Air. AdcAlhun arrived in New Zealand in 1879. The marriage took place at Barrett Road, Omata, the bridal couple going to the church in a bullock dray. Air. McAUum has been in business in New Plymouth for many years, and is secretary of the laranaki Stock Exchange. _ A well-known Auckland bowler, Air. Oswald Gallaher, died on Wednesday at the age of 55 years. As a member of the newly-formed Karangahake Club, skipped by Air. Ernest Jury, Mr. Gallaher' came into prominence as a bowler in 1919, when the team caused a sensation by winning the N r w Zealand championship tournament. A l.w years ago as the result of an accident, he was totally disabled. Air. Gallaher was a brother of the late Air. David Gallaher, who was captain of the 1905 All Blacks, and he was well-known as a miner on the Waihi and Karangahape goldfields.

Air. A. J. Learmonth, Auckland, civil engineer, reached Wellington on Wednesday by the Tamaroa. For two years he has been employed by the Government of Sudan on irrigation works involving the construction of canals, in order to open areas for the cultivation of cotton and native corn. The subdivision under his charge was about 70,000 acres in extent. Air. Learmonth received his first training a. Canterbury College, Christchurch, and went for a year to the London office of Sir John Jackson, where he was engaged on work in connection with the Singapore naval base. From there he went to the Sudan, and has returned for a brief holiday in New Zealand. He intends to leave again early in the new year.