MAINLY ABOUT MEN

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12538, 30 August 1926, Page 6

MAINLY ABOUT MEN

Mr C. Brice, of Wellington, Is visiting Sydney Professor B. Murphy was a passenger by the Maori from Lyttelton on Saturday. Dr. Broadhead, of Christchurch, arrived in Wellington on Saturday on university business. Mr C. A. Sharp, of Knox College, Dunedin, has been awarded the Macmillan Brown Prize for the best essay of the year. Mr A. Veitch, of the Wellington Bowling Club, left for a holiday in Australia by the Ulimaroa on Friday, and will return about the opening of tho bowling season. Mr A. H. Fowler, formerly of Christchurch, New Zealand, who was for many years inter-State representative of John Dewar and Sons, and recently of tho Victorian branch, has died in Sydney. The annual report of the New Zealand Licensing Reform Association contains the following: —The executive regrets to record the deaths of five of the members of the branch exeiutives, whose valued services will be greatly missed. The deceased members were:—Mr W. Pollard (president of the Marlborough branch) ; Mr H. W. S. Hellyer (Otago executive); Mr F. Edwards (Nelson executive); and Messrs T. Allison and N. Meuli (Wanganui executive). High tribute to the retiring president, Mr J. P. Firth, C.M.G., was paid by Sir Joseph Ward and others at the annual meeting of the Wellington branch of the Navy League on Friday. “With all regard to the ability of the new president all are exceedingly sorry that Mr Firth has expressed a desire to retire,” said Sir Joseph Ward, “and I am sure that had he not wished to retire, he would have been elected to the position again unanimously.” Mr Edgar Stead, the well-known authority on bird-life, and "who is the president of the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, has kindly consented to give his lecture, “The Birds of New Zealand,” illustrated with lantern slides, in the Conference Hail, Dominion Farmers’ Institute, Wellington, on Thursday, September 2nd, at 8 p.m. The admission is free, and the Wellington Acclimatisation Society invites nil those interested to be present. The death occurred at Feilding on Friday of Mr David. Younger, one of the district’s best-known and most widely respected settlers. The deceased arrived in New Zealand fortynine years ago from Scotland, and with the exception of a short visit to the Kimberley goldfields in Australia, had lived in Feilding up to the time of his death. He was a contractor and builder by profession, and in partnership with Mr A. Long huilt many bridges which are still standing in that and other districts. These include the bridges across the Taurangariri river as Tokaanu. Lake Taupe, and those across the Bunnythorpe-Palmer-Rton North road. During the war Air Younger held the position of engineer to the Oroua Countv Council, and later that of inspector of bridges and culverts for both the county council and the Feilding Borough Council.