PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 15 July 1933, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr. J. T. Murray, M.Sc., who .has been for some time in the New Plymouth hospital laboratory, and for the last two months acting-bacteriologist, is spending a few days with his parents at Hawera before leaving for Wellington, where he has been appointed to a position in the pathological department of the public hospital. The death of Mr. James Brown aged 75, an accountant, one of the best-known figures in New Zealand friendly societies, and ex-president of the New Zealand Commercial Travellers Association, is reported by the Press Dunedin. Mr. Brown, who was head of the firm of James Brown and Co., was also a past president of the Incorporated Institute of Accountants and New Zealand Society of Accountants. For many years he was chairman of directors of the New Zealand Express Company, and he held other important positions. He wrote various articles on accountancy matters.

One of New Zealand’s early settlers, Mrs. Elizabeth Fitzgerald, relict of the late John Fitzgerald, Blenheim, died at Wellington yesterday at the age of 93, a Wellington. Press Association message reports. She arrived at Nelson by the ship GoJconda on Christmas Day, 1860, and subsequently married. She and Mr. Fitzgerald migrated to the Wairau Valley, Marlborough, where Mr. Fitzgerald engaged in farming in the days when roads were few and rough and the ordinary engagements of life had to be faced with the fortitude of a pioneer. For . some years Mrs. Fitzgerald had been living at Wellington with her daughter, Mrs. T. Lindsay Buick, at whose home she died.