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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 September 1939, Page 4

PERSONAL

Dr D. U. Strang has been appointed to the staff of the pathological department at the Auckland Hospital, in succession to Dr K. McNamara, who has resigned to take up a position in Australia.

There was a large and representative attendance of settlers of the Mt. Bruce and Mauriceville district at the funeral yesterday afternoon of the late Mr Hans Christensen. The Rev. F. J. Parker officiated. The pall-bearers were: Messrs J. Sigvertsen, F. Sigvertsen, D. Christensen, E. Christensen, F. Wyeth and T. Matthews. Guests at the Midland Hotel, Masterton. include Messrs W. Letham, G. H. Shepherdson (Napier), J. Hazelwood (Upper Hutt), F. Clarke, C. S. Stevens (Palmerston North), C. S. Luney (Christchurch), C. F. Falconer, A. Boult, J. Rountree, S. Smaille, W. Rushbridge, N. Kirschberg, H. Holland, W. A. Jameson and J. Veitch (Wellington). The funeral of the late Mr J. Waghorn, of Upper Plain, took place in Masterton yesterday, the Rev. T. V. Pearson conducting services at the chapel and at the graveside. Members of the Carterton and Masterton Druids' lodges acted as pall-bearers, the latter being Messrs A. Stratton (who read the Druids’ service), T. Reid, O. Reid, F. Pickering, j. Buckton and A. W. Russell.

Dr C. D. Henry, Wellington, surgeon-in-chief of the St John Ambulance Brigade for the Dominion, has been compelled to tender his resignation in consequence of ill-health, and has been posted to the reserve. Dr Henry has had a long association with the brigade. The vacant position of surgeon-in-chief has been filled by the anpointment of Sir Louis E. Barnett, at present Otago district surgeon. Sir Louis Barnett’s connection with the order extends over four decades, and he has done much to assist the advancement of its work in New Zealand. The death occurred on Monday of a well-known Wellington citizen, Mr Albert Llewellyn Haslam, who was general manager and attorney for many years of Millars’ Timber and Trading Company (Overseas), Ltd. Mr Haslam, who was the son of the late Mr Haslam, M.L.C., Adelaide, came to New Zealand about 40 years ago as the representative of the above-mentioned company, and established a large timber yard in Taranaki Street, Wellington. He married Miss Jessie Hannah, the daughter of the late Mr Robert Hannah, of Wellington, who predeceased him some eight years ago. The death occurred in Wellington recently of Mr Thomas Bloomfield Jobson, aged 89. Born in Adelaide he came to Wellington in 1874, to take up a position with Thompson and Shannon, and some years later joined the staff of Bing, Harris, and Co. In 1879 he married Miss J. Reid. Ilchester, England, who died 11 years ago. The late Mr Jobson was a member of the Commercial Travellers’ Association, which he joined in 1891, three months after it was formed. His only son died in 1913, and the surviving members of his family are Mrs W. Sutherland, Mrs I. E. Barber. Miss Jobson, all of Wellington.

A notable scholar and successful teacher, who gave 40 years of service to the Auckland University College as its professor of English, Professor Charles William Egerton, died at his home in Remuera. Professor Egerton was born in Liverpool in 1862 and had a brilliant university career at Trinity College, Dublin. He was appointed to the Chair of English at Auckland University College in 1894. During his long occupancy of the chair he represented the college for a considerable period on the Academic Board of the University of New Zealand, and he was chairman of the Professorial Board on a number of occasions. When he was about to retire in 1932 the university authorities appealed to him to continue for another year, and he did so till the end of 1933.’