PERSONAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19046, 17 December 1923, Page 8

PERSONAL.

■ The Mayor (Mr H. L. Tapley) was a passenger by the second express on Saturday on a short visit to Timaru. Bishop Richards was a passenger for the north by the second express on Saturday on a pastoral visit to Kurow. Mr C. E. Robertson, of Wright, Stephenson, and Co. (Ltd.), was 1 a passenger for the north by the second express on Saturday Mr A. S. Cookson returned to Dunedin from Christchurch on Saturday. Mr K. A. Anderson was a through passenger by the express from Invercargill on Saturday. Mr John T. Hawke, M.A.. has been appointed first assistant at the Musselburgh School. Miss Beswick, who for a number of years has occupied the position of matron at the Seacliff Mental Hospital, has been appointed inspector of hospitals for the Otago district. Mr A. A. Paape was a passenger for Timaru by the second express on Saturday. Mr J. Dingle, representative for Thornnvcroft motor trucks, .returned north by the second express on Saturday. Mr A. W. Rodger (Invercargill) was a passenger for the south by Saturday's first express. Mr W. IT. Rose arrived bv tbr> express cn Satuday afternoon from Christchurch. A well-known resident of Invercargill, Mr Peter Peterson, died suddenly 'on Fridav afternoon. He was cycling along Forth street against a henw wind, when he collapsed and died while being conveved to the hospital. Deceased had been attended bv Dr M‘Gibbon for some time past, so that an inquest was not necessary. The late Mr Petersen was 49 vears of age. and was born on the Otago Peninsula, He came to Invercargill at an eariv end was educated: at the South School. For the Inst 15 years he had had a partnership in the firm of M'Chesney and Peterson, naiuters and decomtors. He leaves a vyife and several children. ■ Tlio death occurred on Saturday afternoon of Mrs H. Moller. aged 76 vears. a well-known resident of Itavenshourne Mm Moiier Was bom in Little Yarmouth and came to Dunedin as far back n 3 1859. Here she married Mr Carl Moller. a manufacturing jeweller, who predeceased her bv 20 years. Mrs Moller was the mother of five sons, all of whom are living, and eight daughters, of whom five, are living; She has a sister in Dunedin. Mrs Robert Brice, and a brother in Wellington. Mr George Norton, a well-known boatbuildcr. The Hospital Committee of the Otago Hospital Board has' granted permission to the - -head : gardener (Mr F. H. Hollingworth) to accept an appointment as a member of the Horticultural and Landscape Committee of Hie New Zealand and South Seas' Exhibition Company, and a letter of congratulation has been sent to Mr Rolling, worth on his appointment thereto.