About People.

Southland Times, Issue 10968, 20 February 1907, Page 2

About People.

Mr Ai Wadsworth, forijierly in the Wellington City Council's drainage department, has been appointed SauitftTy inspector for Tasmania.

The appointment of Mr George Matthews, "of Lora, Invercargill, to be an officer under the Fisheries Conservation and other Acts is gazetted. Mr W. S. WaterSton is gazetted ViceConsul of Norway at Invercargill. The following appointments are gazetted :—Mr E. Be 0. Clarke, assistantgeologist to the Mines Department; Mr K. M. Grab ami, assistant topographer to the geological survey branch of the Mines Department Mr J. W. Salmond, counsel to the office of law drafting ; Dr. Valintine,. Inspector-General of Hospitals and Charitable Institutions, and Mr 0. Mew-'-hinney, chief Clerk of the Department. Mr J. E. Watson was yesterday reelected chairman of the Bluff Harbour Board. Sir J. G. Ward has been re-appointed representative of the Lakes County Council on the Bluff Harbour Board. Mr J. B. McKinney, the recently-ap-pointed secretary Of the Y.M.C.A., is in Invercargill, and will assume his office shortly. He is to be entertained on Friday by the Board of Managers. Mr McKinney h!ads from Auckland, where he is very well spoken of. Mr l.yrnan Pierce, who visited New Zealand in the interests of the Y.M.C.A., left Bluff by the *.s. Uivcrlui on Monday for Australia. Prior to his departure he had a conference with the local Hoard of Managers. He intends to pay ft return visit lo the colony in duly, i News his been received that Mr Gordoq i Macdonald and Mr Hugh j of Mr T. M. Macdonald, students at the Otago-Mines for some time past, have passed the final examination for the degree of B. Sr. in Efighveering. Mr Bruce Baird, who entered Otago University from the Invercargill Boys' High School with a Junior University : Scholarship, received a. cable cm Monday j stating that lie had passed the B.Sc. exlamination. He leaves for London on Mon- ! day to pursue his medica.l studies- It is a | notable fact that Mr Bruce Baird is the | fifth member of the family of the Rev. | James and Mrs llalrd, formerly of Winton and now of Invcrcafgill, to adopt 1 medicine as a profession. | Mr A. Honor Lindsay, third son of the Rev. Geo. Lindsay. left Wellington on ■ Saturday for London to continue his ■ medical courses in. the University and ■ hospitals there. Before leaving Mr Liod- . say received the intelligence ‘ that he hud passed the final section of his 11.Sc. degree. Mr Lindsay won a ■Junior XTnivo'rsity Scholarship while attending the Invercargill Boys' High School, and during his three years course at Otago University passed the term and degree examinations with distinction. Hi| brother, Mr Ernest Lindsay, is at prekent a medical sWident in London. pis’, H. P. Pickerill of Birmingham bus says a Dunedin message, been appointed director of the School of Dentistry in ' connection with Otago University. He has venji high qualifications, including a testimonial from Sir Oliver Lodge, which stall's that "For such a position as director of a school of dentistey. Dr. Pickerill is father preeminently qualified." Colonel Gudgeon, British resilient at the Cook Island, was a. passenger by the Manapouri, viMcli left Auckland for the Eastern Pacific yesterday. The British Government recently asked that an expert should lie sent from this colony to St. Helena to give instructions in Hie preparation of flax fibre for export, Tile Cabinet has, says a Wellington message, now agreed to allow the chief flax expert, All* C. J. Fulton, to take up the work for iwplve months, and he leaves shortly for the island. A Sydney cable hands on private news received there of the death of Colonel Alcott, Thcosophical Society president. Dr. G. A. Copland, who has recently returned from a holiday trip in the North Island, has decided to settle in Hastings. The Northern climate hotter suits his health. Mr A. Leslie Dohnuofe, of Gore, has passed the first section of the B.A. and I.L.R. examinations.