PEOPLE IN PERSPECTIVE

NZ Truth, Issue 943, 22 December 1923, Page 1

PEOPLE IN PERSPECTIVE

can work up an excitement — over the coming of the N.S.W. champion. Spencer Crakanthorp. who is In his prime and his thirty-eighth year. He has a toeman worthy of his patience m Boyd Dunlop, of Oamaru, champion of that seaport since 1914 and of New Zealand these threo years. Next to talking moves and mates, he'd rather chinchin about llowers and their pests. He is "a year younger than Spen. of Sydney. Parson Miller, of Westport, who la an ex- Sydney player, will take some watching. Like Kelling when out for n killing, ho eats up the brilliancy prizes. Severn, of Nelson — perhaps better known as -six times champion of Canterbury, is wide awake, even though (or perhaps because) he does come from Sleepy Hollow. Chess Is not a game for hicks from the country, but It certainly suits Ernest Hicks, of Ngaio— not to mention his more clever cousin, Edwin Hicks, of the W.C.C. The importance of being Ernest or Edwin does not worry this pair of Hicks In the slightest. Dirk Pihl will be a pill for pressmen as well as chessman, as the Norwegian with the awkward name, who has settled m Canterbury, is coming along more than chess a little. Auckland considers it has a surprise packet In Molr, a youngster who plays tennis by day and chess by night. Masterton sends Paul Kummer, who is a comer all right. Then there is Len Pleasants, of Wanganui, who learned tho game at the feet of his brother Owen, who once upon a time," when' farming at Halcombe, had political aspirations, and contested the Oroua seat ngaln.-st David Guthrie as a Lib.- Lab. Hard Luck Gyles, of Newtown, will be there again. Why Hard Luck? Because he has been tho runner-up for the NewZealand chess championship no fewer than five timet*! Isn't that chess the hardest kind of hard luck?

Ho is known In Napier especially and In Hawkes Bay gunAARD'S orally as Dot Wood - ADVENTURER, cock. Ask anyone what his other name Is. and tho reply comes. "Didn't know Dot had any other." He wns a plumber originally, and therefore It was only natural that ho should got hold ot a Tin Llx*le and make it do things for him. Then ho dropped the soldering iron and the sftl ammoniac and tlie shears m order to make the lord do •<om.uhlt-.fr ror other people—at ho much vov, af course. Dot hail a host of friends and acquaintances whom he started m to convert into clients and passengers. In 1918 the man who had ;>ut murh of the "car" into the Napier Thlrtv Thousand Club's carnival and wus one of its thinkers as well as expert on the executive, had a brilliant business Idea on his own behalf. He conceived thc Aard Idea. It was a gioat idea, and within Us five years haa developed so that lt really covers

the earth and bears out its name, for Aard is known over the length and breadth of the North Island. "Aard" is Dutch for "earth," so that it is not surprising that the double a is doubleDutch to many New Zealanders. The Aard, with its sign of the long shaft and the arrow head, serves the earthborn, night or day, and from Dot Woodcock's Tin Lizzie and one other car there has grown over 200 cars — mostly super- Hudsons — going Aard aa taxis as touring vehicles. And to-day the man who put tbe Aard on this hit of earth is to be seen daily dodging about the garage or with his taxi at the Napier Railway Station. What time and when l\e takes his rest only Dot himself and his family probably know.

Should you be In Auckland for tho

Christmas or New Year A MAN holidays you are sure to OF MARK, be preseht at the Auckland Trotting Club's meeting at Epsom. If you should get out to the course early, go and make the acquaintance of the secretary, Mr. C. F. Mark, one of the best fellows on or off a course. Very few are aware that CF. was the son of a Presbyterian minister. Ho was born m Belfast and educated there, arriving m this country m 1875, when his father came out to take over the Vesey Stewart Settlement at Katlkati. Auckland is where C.F.M. first made his mark, he being accountant of the Tramway Company until lt went into liquidation. Always a keen sport, he took over the secretaryship of the Auckiand Trotting Club when It wa.s llr.st formed— over thirty years ago—and tho manner In which ho has carried out his work is exemplified m the strong financial position the club is In to-day. In his spare time CF. Is a bit of a chess oxpert, but if you would hold his attention quote trotting rules at him. And It you an* not up to all the regulations m the light harncus world look out for trouble, for there Is not a better versed offlciul iii Australasia,,

One of the brightest and boldest blades

m the young brigade of WILFRED Wellington's lawyers LEICESTER, and. to -sustain the

simile, one, whose parade and riposte are 'always, effective In tlie daily tilts is going alone on the road of legal adventure. This Is Wilfred Leicester. Hitherto he has acted under the ae?la of tho well-known firm of Bell. Gully. Myers and O'Leary, but at nbout the same time as New Tear calendars are being suspended for action. Leicester will h<\ hanging out the shingle m front or bis own., office on the Quay. A "-ready wit and confident address are the foundations on which auccens will not totter with thin lad for he hns tho other attribute of tenacity. At Victoria College he evinced a goodly proportion Of the lat-

ter virtue by graduating L.L.B. m 1920 at the age of 21. As for his capacity to hold forth he demonstrated that early m his 'Varsity career by carrying oil the Union prize for debating m 1918. The following year he convinced the judges at the 'Varsity debating tournament held m Dunedin that he was the man for the Joynt Scroll and In 1920 gained the Plunket medal In Wellington for oratory with. his speech on Tom Kettle, the young Irish politician, poet, and writer. Before going to 'Varsity, Leicester was at Wellington College and thero carried otf the Moore scholarship, tho Bamicoat Memorial scholarship and the Ltverton history prize. Though the lad has "a maggot for reading" aa one I of his friends onco said o! him. ho is by no means of that mynplo type that lives alone m a world of books and romance of other days, He Is not short - sighted. He doesn't peer through spectacles at a world he knows nothing of and whoso manifold infamies he vaguely fears. Nor does he wear a faded coat. In short, though it may sound Iconoclastic, ho Is not tho typical student. On tho contrary, ho i« probably Beau Rrummel of the costs brigade, and plays tennis and gplf with vigor, particularly tennis — tho courts suit him so well. In tho latter game he represented the Victoria College for three years. His facility with the pen must be known to many who have read "Wilfrldo's" published articles. As an Inky Wayfarer alone he has the best wishes of this paper, and ln the law, you know, you can't keep a good roan down. M IJ II Dr. Blackmore, Director of the Consumptive Sanatorium DOCTOR at Christchurch, is at BLACKMORE. last taking a muchneeded »nd well-earn* i ed vacation. Thnn Dr. Blackmore the white scourge has no greater enemy nor its victims a better friend. All the time ho has been 'in Christchurch he has fought consumption fearlessly and, thanks to tho earnest study he has made of the most effective strangleholds to apply to the disease, there are scores of people, not only m Christchurch, but m all parts of New Zealand and Australia, who owe their lives to him. And whenever a slowmoving and self-satisfied Government has slackened m its regard for the health of the community. It has been Dr. Blackmore who, time after time has prodded it into action. When Dr' Blackmore flrst took over the Con* sum-Hive "«»n" the place wns m a condition that might be described na primitive. But his knowledge of the Job and the way to tackle it has placed the Institution on a plane of efficiency that even the bigger institutions m England and Scotland cannot surpass. And now, «» the crowning achievement of his effort, the Children's Home is an accomplished fact, if any person ever deserved a holiday it is Dr. Blackmore, nnd 'Truth," In ■wishing him the health to enjoy his twelve months' tour of the Old Country and Europe, will bo seconded by the doctor's admirers m all comers of the country. It might bo mentioned here that during Dr. Blackmort-'s absence thc Christchurch Sanatorium will be under the control of Dr. Lan Mnclutyre, another able man. whoee special study is the treatment of tubercular.