PERSONAL

Wanganui Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15671, 23 November 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr Gerald Henson, of the “Peg 1 o’ My Heart” Company, has been removed to the Alexandra Hall Hospital in Wellington very seriously ill with influenza. Mir J. McDonald (advance manager of the same company) is in the hospital, also in a rather serious condition. The many Wanganui friends of Mr Will Fenwick will regret to hear of his death, which occurred at his home in Napier on Thursday evening as a- result of pneumonia. The late Mr Fenwick was the youngest son of Mr and Mrs John Fenwick, well known in Wanganui, and was a member of the firm of John Fenwick and Co., stevedores. Mr Fenwick was a frequent visitor to Wanganui in connection with their business of loading ocean steamers in the roadstead, and he made many friends ihere as a result of his genial and happy disposition. Ho leaves a wife and two young eons, and to them, his parents, and other members of the family the sympathy of Wanganui friends is sincerely recorded. The Minister for Agriculture, the Hon. Mr Mac Donald, is seriously ill. s Yesterday news of his mother’s death in Tim'aru was received by Mr J. T. Werry (McGruer and Co.). Mrs Werry was one of the best-known old identities of Timaru, and passed away well past the allotted span after a life of activity. She leaves two sons, Mr Alf. Werry, Waimataitai, and Mr J. T. Worry, of this town. Mr R. W. McVilly, of the Railway Department, who is reported to he suffering from, influenza, was one of the only two railway officers in Dunedin who weathered the epidemic of 1890, and remained on duty right through the period Mr W. R. Morris, Secretary of the Post and Telegraph Office, continues to make satisfactory progress towards recovery from an attack of influenza. Mr F. V. Waters (Assistant-Secretary) is reported to be very seriously ill. LieutenantrColonel Sleeman, Director of Military Training, is recovering from influenza and pneumo-complica-tions, and it is hoped will be up within another week. Mr G. V. Pearce, M.P., and his two daughters, who have been down for a week with influenza at the Royal Oak Hotel, Wellington, are now all making satisfactory progress. Mr Lawrence Birks, who is in charge of the Lake Coleridge hydro-electric works, is to succeed Mr E. Parry as Chief Electrical Engineer for the New Zealand Government. The death is reported in Auckland of Mrs Alex. Ferguson, junr., from double pneumonia, following an attack of influenza. Mr and Mrs Ferguson were