PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11752, 6 February 1918, Page 5

PERSONAL

l)r. Weeks (Dean of Nelson) has been offered the rectory of Toorak, Melbourne, but lias declined the invitation. Cable advice has boon received by Mrs H. J. McKenzie, of Clareville, that her husband, Corporal H. J. McKenzie, who wasl severely wounded on the 4th October, and has been in hospital ever since, is returning to New Zealand. Two deaths are reported from Pahiatua. Mr Joseph S. Pim, of Pongaroa, died in the hospital, aged K7. He was ono time farming at Kaitawa. Mrs J. McKenzie, died at Cambridge street, aged 66. She had been ill for a long time. Mr Harry Plimmer, the wellknown New Zealand actor-manager, has left Australia for America. It is understood that he will try his luck in the picture world. His ,lato partner, Mr Winter Hall, has been working in pictures in America for a year past.

Mr Tompson Lamb, an old resident of Dunedin, died on Sunday, aged 82. He wa§ an accountant and sharebroker. Being of a retiring (nature, he was not well known outside his personal friends, by whom he was much respected. He was unmarried. Tho death occurred fin Saturday of Dr. James Cooke, of Lincoln, in his fifty-sixth year. Dr. Cooke obtained his M.D. degree at the University of Ireland in 18t>2, and became a licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, in IBM. He had resided in Lincoln for many years. He leaves a widow and two sons and daughters. His elder son, who is i n the R.A.M.C., is on his way back to New Zealand. Mr Arthur J. Bray, of Te Awamutu, died at Hamilton hospital on Sunday, aged 40 years. Deceased was secretary of the Waipa Racing Club, the Building Society, and other institutions. The deceased, who was a brother-in-law of Mr B. Clayson, of Masterton, was well-known in the Eketahuna and Pahiatua districts, where he held a responsible position with the W.F.C.A. He loaves a widow and two daughtoi s to mourn their loss. There passed away at Palnierston on Monday morning still another of our respected pioneer settlers, in the person of Mr Levi Stephen Lovelock, who was in liis e'ighty-seveuth year. Tho late Mr Lovelock, who had been in indifferent health for some time, was born in Wellington in June, 1640, his parents having arrived in that port in April or May of the isame year in the good ship Bolton. The vessel anchored off what is now the site of the Hotel Cecil, and was the first ship to land passengers at Wellington proper, the site having been removed from Petone, where it was originally intended to locate Wellington. The late Mr Lovelock was therefore the first white boy to be born in Wellington.