PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 4 December 1935, Page 4

PERSONAL

Sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr. R. G. Surrey was expressed at a meeting of the Inglewood County Council yesterday. Mr. W. Andrews, Auckland, designer of the new altar in St. Mary’s Church, New. Plymouth, is spending a holiday at Stratford. He intends to return to New Plymouth before going back to Auckland.

Mr. C. Linwood, of the Shell Company, who has been promoted to the Napier branch of the firm, will leave New Plymouth to-morrow. He has been replaced at New Plymouth by Mr. J. Gale.

A resolution of sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr. Alfred Marshall was passed by ’the Inglewood County Council yesterday. Mr. Marshall had been a highly respected member of the community and was one of the early pioneers, said Cr. H. Jones, acting-chair-man.

Dr. Ralph W. Souter, lecturer in economics at Columbia University, New York, has been appointed professor of economics at the University of Otago, where he graduated in 1919, says a Press Association message. Dr. Souter has had a distinguished career in the study of economics. In 1927 he was granted a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, which took him to Columbia University, where he was subsequently appointed lecturer.

The death occurred at Inglewood recently of Mr. Robert George Surrey, who was born in 1865 at. Favisham, Englana. He came to New Zealand with his parents and other members of the family in the ship Avalanche. The family stayed at New Plymouth for. a year and then went on to Inglewood by bullock dray in January, 1876. Mr. Surrey lived at Inglewood until 1905 when, he accepted a position as accountant to the Awatuna Dairy Company—which he held for 14 years until he went to Gisborne. Mr. Surrey took an active interest in the Methodist Church, being Chief Circuit Steward for the Inglewood, Kaponga and Gisborne districts at various times. He was a justice of the peace and at the time of his death Was the oldest foundation member of the Masonic Order at Inglewood. He was a lieutenant m the volunteers at Inglewood and took an active part in Rugby football in his youth. He is survived by his widow (who was Miss Alice Grainger) and four sons; Messrs. Claude (Durham Road), R. (Wellington), Douglas (Stratford) and A. (Inglewood). There are twelve grandchildren