PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 28 August 1933, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr. J. B. Mac Ewan, who has been seriously ill, is improved in health, according to advice from Wellington. Mr. A. Chadwick, Waitara, has been appointed an honorary child welfare officer.

The appointment of Mr. A. C. Muller as registrar of births and deaths ■ of Maoris at Awakino is announced in the Gazette.

The death has occurred at Wellington of (Mr. J. Osborn, of Ferguson and Osborn, booksellers and printers, states a Press Association message. The death has occurred of Mr. Henry Karnbach, a well-known settler of Kokatahi, aged 91, reports a Hokitika message.

An Ottawa cablegram reports the death of Senator Gideon Robertson, _ former Minister of Labour in the Bennett Government. Death occurred following a stroke a fortnight ago.

The death of Mr. Alfred C. Fisherat the age of 84 is reported by cable from Los Angeles. He was a noted veteran of the stage and screen. He began his career in England in 1869.

Votes of 'condolence with the relatives of the late Mrs. A. C. Johnstone, Auroa, and with Mr. E. L. Mason because of the death of his brother were adopted by the executive of the Taranaki Ayrshire Breeders' Club.

The British Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, who is spending a holiday at Lossiemouth, will visit the King and Queen at Balmoral Castle early next month, says a British Official Wireless message.

After his holiday voyage to Brazil Sir John Simon, British Foreign Secretary, is due back in London to-morrow, says a British Official Wireless message. It is expected he will remain in London for a few days and then proceed to Scotland. The Rev. George Lindsay, aged 87, a retired Minister of the Presbyterian Church, died last night at Christchurch, the Press Association reports. He was minister of St. Paul’s, Invercargill, for 23 years until 1911, in which year he was Moderator of the General Assembly. Afterwards Mr. Lindsay was at St. Clair for two years and at 'Southbridge for five years. Mr. E. A. Cameron, formerly manager of the Orange (New South Wales) branch of ■ the Bank of Australasia, has been appointed manager of the Wanganui branch in succession to Mr. W. H. Robertshaw, who has been promoted to the Wellington management of the bank, succeeding Mr. J. A. Macleod, who will shortly retire on pension after 43 years’ service.

The death occurred at Wellington yesterday of Mrs. A. C. Greatbatch, Fitzroy, New Plymouth. Mrs. Greatbatch was the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Bell Thomson, New Plymouth. She leaves a grown-up family of four daughters—Mrs. J. N. Stephenson (Opunake), Mrs. G. Mace (Wellington), Mrs. E. D. Colson (Wellington) and Miss C. Greatbatch (New Plymouth). Her only son, Second-Lieutenant E. P. Greatbatch, was killed at Etaples in the Great War. He was a member of the Eighth Reinforcement. The death has occurred at Morrinsville of Mr. William Clement Cargill, managing director of the Cargill Publishing Company, which publishes the Morrinsville Star, Matamata Record and Putaruru Press, says a Wellington Press Association message. Mr. Cargill was formerly proprietor. of the Wairarapa Age, Patea Press and Pukekohe Times. From 1928 to 1930 he was president of the New Zealand Master Printers’ Federation. Mr. Cargill, who was in his 63rd year, was interested in many educational and sporting activities. The death has occurred at New Plymouth of Mr. Walter Beatson, who was born in London in 1849, the seventh son of William and Maria Beatson. The family came to New Zealand in the ship Midlothian in 1851. After residing at Nelson for a short period, they moved to Guthrie Grange, Stoke, where Mr. Beatson’s boyhood days were spent. . Mr. Beatson’s father was the architect for the first Nelson College. After farming at Raumai and Feilding for a number of years Mr. Beatson retired to .New Plymouth, where he resided until his death. He was fond of bowling, being a member of the West End and New Plymouth clubs. He leaves a wife, a son, Mr. Herbert Beatson, Aorangi, Feilding, and a daughter, Mrs. Frank Blundell, New Plymouth. * The death occurred at Heriot, Otago, on Saturday of Mrs. Ann Thomson, widow of the late Alexander Thomson, and a well-known figure in the province as one of the pioneers. Mrs. Thomson was bom at •Edinburgh in 1847, the only daughter of Dr. James Scott. After her marriage to Mr. A. Thomson, an engineer,, she went to reside at Calcutta. After nine years spent there Mr. and Mrs. Thomson came to New Zealand, and in 1879 they took up land in Otago. There they had resided ever since, and took a prominent part in the pioneering work of the district. Mrs. Thomson was predeceased by her husband in 1911. There were‘three sons and three daughters of the marriage. Mr. W. W. Thomson, New Plymouth, is the only one resident in the North Island.