ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 17662, 21 February 1916, Page 6

ABOUT PEOPLE

- Air Marcus Marks, Hansard supervisor. will succeed Mr John Mackay as Government printer. A cable from Sydney announces the death of Sir .1. W. Hackctt, Legislative Councillor, and part proprietor (one time editor) of the Western Mail, Perth. The Minister of Justice passed through Dunedin on Saturday afternoon cn route for his home at Knapdale, Gore. Mr Mc.N'ab has boon appointed by Cabinet to take charge of recruiting. Mr Charles Holden, who has occupied, the position of Town Clerk of Cromwell for the past IT years, has resigned owing to ill-health. This morning by tbe express several delegates will be leaving Southland for the Methodist Conference, which is to he held in Auckland. Revs. W. Ready, G. Clement, and Messrs J. J. Wesnoy, B. A. Undrill, A. Clarke, and Mrs Undrill will represent Invercargill. Sergeant G. R. Ready, of the 10th Mounted Rifles, who has been down for a few days on final leave, left on Saturday morning for Fcatherstone Camp. Sergeant Ready left with the 10th Reinforcements from here, and has been promoted to the rank of Sergeant. He is the youngest son of the Rev. W. Ready. A letter-card was received last week at Wanganui, via Switzerland, from Corporal Kales, of the Wellington Battalion, a prisoner in Constantinople, who was one of the few who survived the groat attack on Sari Bair in August. He was wounded and captured by the Turks. He intimates that he is well and having a fairly comfortable time, but says the Now Zealand lads would like some money sent from Mr Massey or Mr Allen. , After 48 years’ service, Mr F. D. Holdsworth, chief postmaster in Auckland, is due to retire from the post ami telegraph service at an early date. Though a native of England, Mr Holclsworth came to this country at an early age, being only two years of age when ho landed in New Zealand. After spending some time in Australia, where his parents removed, he joined the New Zealand service as a cadet in the Telegraph Department in Wellington in 1868. He was shortly afterwards transferred to Dunedin, and then to Oamani. In February, 1 880, he was transferred to New Plymouth. In October of the same year the Postal and Telegraphic Departments were amalgamated, and Mr Holdsworth was appointed chief postmaster at New Plymouth. There he stayed for 27 years. In January, 1907, Mr Holdsworth was promoted to the position of chief postmaster at Auckland. The dentil occurred recently of Mr Samuel Whitbread, of Southill Park, Biggleswade, England, at the great age of 85. He was Liberal M.P. from 1852 until 1895, and was Lord of the Admiralty from 1859 to 1863. He was better known to tli_p general public as head of tire famous brewery of Whitbread and Co. His family had been In the House of Commons for five generations. His father, grandfather, and great-grand-father all represented the Liberal interest when that enjoyed anything but the favour It has to-day. Idjs grandfather, who also sat for Bedford, was one of Charles James Fox's ablest adherents. It was on his motion that the vote was carried which pronounced Lord Melville, the friend and colleague of Pitt, guilty of peculation. Mr 'Whitbread more than once refused a peerage, and thrice declined the honour of the Speakership. When Gladstone pressed him to take this office he confessed that he was slightly deaf, and unsuited, therefore, for the high position. At the conclusion of the meeting of the Christmas Shilling Gift Association of Amateur Sports Bodies at Wellington on Wednesday evening, the chairman (Mr C. G. Wilson) on behalf of the sports bodies of Wellington presented Mrs Arthur Paape with a handsome silver salver, and Mr Paape with a goldmounted umbrella on the occasion of Mr Paape leaving Wellington to take up the management of the Waverley Hotel, Auckland. Mr Paape, said the chairman, was one of the keenest sports possible, and he was perfectly satisfied that the amateur sports bodies throughout New Zealand would wish him every success in his now sphere. His going would be a great loss to Wellington (hear,hear), but wherever Mr Paape might be any movement for tire benefit of the lads at the front would have his hearty support. They could not let Mr Paape go without showing him in some way their appreciation of what he had done for the sports bodies of Wellington in the time he had been with them; and also for the boys in the trenches. (Applause). He heartily wished both Mr and Mrs Paape the best of health, he hoped that the business lie was going to manage would be successful, and that for many years he would continue, to enjoy the friendship and goodwill of the sports bodies in the city of Wellington and throughout New Zealand. Councillor Frost, and Messrs G. S. Hill, Blick, Davies, Webb, Carr, Marryatt, and others also paid high tributes to Mr Paape as a good sport, and Mr Paape, who suitably responded, was greeted with musical honours and three hearty cheers. Mr Marryatt said that in his memory this was the first occasion on which all the amateur sports bodies of Wellington had met together to do honour to one man in that way. (Applause).