ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 17347, 19 May 1913, Page 6

ABOUT PEOPLE

So far Mr A. S. Service has received tlie nominations of Messrs Alt’. .1. Sheat (Morton Mains), and 11. G. Brass for the vacancy caused by the retirement of Mr J. P. Wilson from tin* County Council. Nominations close on Friday. Mr D. Potter, the popular chief guide of tlie Milford track, was married on tlie 2!>th April to Miss .1. Pearson, of Christchurch. Tlie ceremony took place at St. Saviour's Church. Sydenham, the Rev. P. J. Cocks officiating. A goodly number sat down to the wedding breakfast. after which the couple left by motor for Akaroa. At Hie meeting of tlie South Canterbury Education Board on Tuesday (stales the Timaru Post) tlie members of tlie Board decided to present Mr Bell, ex-secretary of foe Board (now secretary of tile Southland Education Board) with a walking-stick as a memento of his association with tlie Board. Hr .Rutherford made the presentation in an appropriate speech. Mr Beil in reply said that the Board hud been so good to him officially that tlie unofficial gift hud bee» quite unexpected and therefore (he more appreciated. His relations with the Board had been so cordial and harmonious that tie could say in parting from tlie members that in each one lie hrwl a friend. He could assure them that he appreciated their kindness very greatly and would always treasure their present. Captain Scott’s estate lias been proved at £32:11. Sir J. Carroll is reported to be improving in health. Tlie Ring gave an audience to Commander Evans, and conferred on him the Companionship of the Bath. His Majesty condoled with Commander Evans on the loss of ills wife. Mr James Miles, who for Hie past seven and a-half years lias occupied the position of manager of the local branch of the Rank of Australasia, lias decided to retire ami will, in about three weeks' time, proceed to Dunedin, where lie will temporarily take up his residence. Mr Miles, who is the father of Mr Fred Miles, the last New Zealand Rhodes scholar, lias, during his stay in Invercargill actively identified himself with local institutions, and was a member of tlie Southland Chamber of Commerce, and a vice-president of tlie Southland Cricket Association. His successor is Mr A. S. Donne, of Victoria. The Prime Minister and the Hon. W. H. Henies left Christchurch on Saturday for Wellington. Mr Arthur Marryalt (who topped tlie poll in the election of member of the Public Service Appeal Board) is wellknown in Dunedin, having until two or three years ago resided here, where lie was connected with the local branch of the Government Life Insurance. On leaving school lie obtained an appointment in the Government Life Insurance, and he has been connected with that department ever since. He was one of the founders and presidents of the Dunedin Civil Service Harrier and Amateur Athletic Club. When the Otago Boxing Association was formed lie presided over the first meeting, and while in Dunedin he was one of the vice-pre-sidents. As vice-president and president of the Otago Centre of the New Zealand' Amateur Athletic Association his efforts for amateur athletics will long be remembered. Since his removal to Wellington Mr Marr.vatt has largely identified himself with all amateur sports movements in that city. He was president of the Citizens' Sports Committee of tlie Industrial Exhibition, the Festival of Empire Committee, and other public bodies. He is president of tlie Council of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association. Die New Zealand Olympic Council, and vice-president of the Wellington Civil Service . Sports Club. Wellington Amateur Athletic Club. and other bodies. After nearly -to years' service Mr Robert .McGill, who whs the oldest engineer In the Union Steam Ship Company’s service, has left the engine room for good, and is now on hhi way back to his native heath. He has gone to settle in Scotland, which he left some 37 years ago In the steamer Wanaka, which, with the Taupo and Hawea, made an 18-<lay cruise from Dunedin to Auckland ar.d back, via ports. The Wanaka was a vessel about the same size as the Penguin. Mr McGill, in the course of an interview, described how the Wanaka came out by way of St. Vincent, and tlie (jape of Good Hope, picking up a cargo of timber at Hobart for New Zealand. The vessel was built on tlie Clyde, and her engines were what are known by engineers as “a compound job." She made tlie first Sounds excursion that Cue Union Company ever ran. “Those who came out in the Wanaka." said Mr McGill. "are all dead but the cook and myself. We had no trouble with firemen in those days. They were recruited from tlie seamen, and were clean, handy, steady men. and worth the £l2 a month they got then.’’ . Tlie Mining Journal announces that Mr Alexander Fyfe. a graduate of the Otago School of Mines, lias been appointed chief metallurgist to the Ventanas Mining and Exploration Company (Ltd.), Durango, Mexico. Mr Mouat (who has been elected a member of the Public Service Appeal Board) Is a native of Dunedin, and domes of a well-known legal family—his father, the late Mr John Moua,t. and his brother, the late Mr C. M. Mouat. having been barristers and solicitors in practice in tins city. Mr Mouat. who is an ex-pupil of the Otago Boys' High School, entered tlie Government service in 1595. Having successfully passed the Junior Civil Service examination lie was offered, and accepted, a clerical cadetship in the local Lands and Survey Office. , Two years later lie passed tlie Senior Civil Service examination. ami thereafter studied law. with tlie result that he qualified aw a solicitor of the Supremo Court, and was admitted to the Bar in 1906. The Government appointed hinrin the same year secretary to the Royal Commission set up to inquire into tlie problem Of tlie drainage of the Taieri Plain, and in 1908 Mr Mouat was also appointed returning officer for the first election of trustees to the Taieri' Drain-* age Board. For a few months lie held office a* acting-clerk and acting-treasur-er to tlie Taieri Drainage Board until il w.is firmly established. Last year when tlie Hon. A. L. ilcrdman's Public Service Bill was before Parliament Mr Mouat was elected chairman of Hie committee set up by tiie Dunedin Civil Servants m revise the Bill in the interests of the service generally, and in that capacity lie did good work, for which his election to the Public Service Appeal Board is regarded in official circles as in some measure a reward.