Personal

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 188, 12 August 1941, Page 4

Personal

, The death has o.iur: ed in Auckl;-n< iof Mr. John William Meiklejohn i aged 66, public accountant ot Waihi. • Constable E. T. Broadley, who ha: ■ been stationed at the Hastings Folic: Station since 1936, has been trans ferred to Wairoa. j Mr. J. P. Wells, secretary of th: ■ Wanganui City Patriotic Committee |is to visit Wellington to-day or I palriotic business. Captain J. S. Sealy, of Hamilton | who served through the Greek am I Crete campaings, has been attache: ! to the Greek forces in Egypt. Mr. James Edward Fox, Inver : cargill. celebrated his ninety-seventl i birthday recently. Mr. Fox was bon j in England and during his schooldays I played cricket with Charles Dickens

Major Lucius O'Brien, Auckland who commanded the North Islam Battalion of the 9th New Zealanc Contingent in the South African War died in Auckland last week.

According to last week's Gazette, Major J. G. C. Leach, Taranaki Regiment, has been temporarily appointed ollicer commanding No. 1 Training Battalion, Mobilisation Camp, Trentham.

2nd.-Lieut. G. F. Hart, N.Z. Scottish Regiment, has been Gazetted Lieut, (temp.), and appointed Adjutant, No. 2 Training Battalion, Mobilisation Camp, Burnham.

According to last week's Gazette Lieut. G.’ G. Black, Adjutant. 2nd. Battalion, N.Z. Scottish Regiment, has been granted the temporary rank of captain.

Captain R. L. Hutchens, 19th. (Wellington) Battalion (Overseas), relinquishes the appointment of liaison officer, 4th. N.Z. Infantry Brigade, but remains seconded while acting as staff captain.

A veteran of two wars, Major Edwin Harrowell, formerly of the Colonial Pacific Service, died at his residence, 68 Mount St. John Avenue, Epsom, Auckland. Seventy-four years of age, he was born and educated, in England.

Mr. Carson P. Shea, who has been manager of the Majestic Theatre, Invercargill, for four years, has been appointed manager of the Regent and Mayfair Theatres, Napier, and will leave on September 8 to take up his new appointment.

Captain W. Peirson, M.R.C.V.S., 8.5. c., Gore, has ceased to be attached to the Otago Mounted Rifles and is appointed ollicer commanding lhe Southland Veterinary Hospital, according to The New Zealand Gazette. He is also granted the temporary rank of major.

The death occurred at Dunedin last week of Mr. Ernest Henry Hodge, owner and manager of Penrose's, Ltd. Mr. Hodge was employed by the company for some years before buying the controlling interest, and was widely known as a business man throughout the Dominion.

Mr. N. S. Woods, who has been secretary of the Christchurch Youth Centre since its inception, will leave for Wellington shortly to take up a research appointment with the Manpower Division. In 1936. Mr. Woods, then on the staff of the Otago Univc—sity, loft New Zealand for two years’ study of industrial relations and organisation in Great Britain and Europe under the award of a Rockefeller Fellowship in social science.

The death occurred at "Rose View" farm, To Puke, last week, of Mr. Thomas Vile, ninth son of the late Mr. Job Vile, M.P., of Manawatu. The deceased, who had been resident in the Bay of Plenty for only a year or two, .was formerly engaged in farming operations at Halcombe. He served in the Boer War and the Great War and was badly wounded at Gallipoli. Returned soldiers acted as pail-bearers at the funeral, which took place at the Te Puke Cemetery on Friday. The late Mr. Vile is survived by a widow and one daughter. Mr. C. E. Vile, of Ohakea, Mi’. L. J. Vile, of Palmerston North, and Mr. H. Vile, of Pahiatua, are brothers of the deceased.

The friends of Mr. Charles Henry Whale, 12 Aorangi Street, Feilding, learned with regret, of his sudden passing recently at the age of 64 years. Born at Marton, Mr. Whale was the second son of the late Mr. George Whale and Mrs. Whale, of Wanganui, and spent his boyhood days al Greatford. His marriage took place at Feilding to Miss M. M. Thow, they living at different periods at Waituna, Hastings, Greatford and latterly in Feilding. There are three children, Mrs. J. D. Hayes (Marton), Mrs. J. Niven (Wellington) and Mr. George Whale (Feilding). The late Mr. Whale was a successful hurdler, runner and track cyclist and won trophies as an axeman.

Mr. G. A. McDonald, of the Wanganui SI. John Association, has conducted first aid ciasses in Waitotara for the past year. Recently the

whole of his class sat and passed the prescribed examination. He was presented with a chiming clock from members of the class in appreciation of painstaking work. Mr. McDonald is also a corporal in the 11th. (Wanganui) Company of the National Military Reserve, where his knowledge of first aid has been made lull use of. He has also attended the Central District School of Instruction, Palmerston North and has since given interesting lectures to the company in regard to gas in warfare and tin’ preparations made by Britain to counteract the use of gas, should tin enemy decide to apply it as a weapon.