ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 17929, 5 November 1918, Page 6

ABOUT PEOPLE

A London cable states that Captain Guy Gaunt (Naval Attache to America) has been promoted to Hear-Admiral. In a letter received from Havre, Mr Harry Ellwood learns that Mr Jean Gerardy, the famous ’cellist, is serving with the Belgian Army. Dr Win. Stewart, of Invercargill, who has been on military duty, in camp at" Awapuni for some time, is under orders to proceed to the front and will leave New Zealand shortly. ■

Mr R. W. G. Lye, Telegraph Engineer, Invercargill, has received notice of transfer and promotion to'the position of Telegraph Engineer, Dunedin, fee will be succeeded jay Mr A. Scott, of the Wellington engineering staff.

• Dr Stanley Brown, Medical Superintendent of the Southland Hospital, who has made . frequent applications to ' be" released for military service, has received notice of his appointment as Captain in N.Z.M.C., and leaves Invercargill on Friday next. Dr Donald Wilson will act as locum tenants during his absence. Second-Lieut. N. A. W. Wallis, R.F.A. (Christchurch), has been'promoted lieutenant. He has, been for some considerable time in Italy.Lieut. Wallis is the eldest son of Mr and Mrs ; A. R. Wallis, formerly of Invercargill. A Dargaville message states that Dr Henry Mark Levinge 'was found dead in his garden yesterday at Euawai. Deceased was a retired naval surgeon of scientific attainments. ' *

'Mr Leo: D. Chateau, controlling "the picture adaptation of the famous book, “My Four Years in Germany,” for the International exhibitors of America, arrived in Invercargill yesterday to make the necessary arrangements for the local screenings next week.

Mr and Mrs John Valentine, of Bluffy have been officially notified that their sixth son, Lance-corporal Peter Valentine, aged 21 years, has died of wounds while prisoner of war in Germany. Before enlistment in the 20th Reinforcements the deceased was an employee of the Bluff Harbour Board. Two sons have since returned, while two others are still on active service. Mr Victor Raines, solicitor, has commenced the practice of his profession in Invercargill. Mr Raines, who received his early education in Invercargill at the South School and the Boys’ High School, studied law at the University in Wellington. He received his legal training in Wellington in the office of Messrs WDford and Levi as Common Law Clerk to the Hon. T. -M. Wilford, and later in the office of Messrs Gray and Jackson, as Conveyancing Clerk to Mr A. Gray, K.C., for whose firm he was also managing clerk. Among the passengers who arrived from Australia by the Westralia a few days ago was Lieut. Walter H. Frame, D.S.C., M.M. and bar, R.NJi, He is the sixth son of Mr and Mrs A. Frame, sen., of St. Kilda, and joined the first Australian Expeditionary F6rce in August, 1914. Leaving with the Main Body for Egypt in October, 1914, he served on Gallipoli and in France as a telephonist and linesman, and during the battle of the Somme in 1916 he was awarded the Military Medal and bar for repairing telephone lines at Pozieres. Being a master mariner, he was transferred to the Royal Naval Reserve for general services in April, 1917, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for bravery in action .with enemy submarines whilst serving in one of the renowned “Q” vessels. He is now on three weeks’ furlough, and returns to duty at the end of November. He was born in Oamaru, finished his education at the Albany street School, Dunedin, and later, in the U.S.S. Co.’s service, worked his way up to the position >pf fourth mate of the Monowai.

There was a large congregation at the Gore Methodist Church on Sunday evening, when a memorial service in connection with the death of the Rev. G. H. Mann was conducted by Rev. A. Peters, of Invercargill (says the Ensign). The pulpit was draped with the Union Jack, and choir balustrade and windows were beautifully decorated with white flowers. The preacher took for his text Isaiah 65 and part of verse 6, "We all do fade as a leaf,” and Rev. 22-2, “And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the Nations.” In a forceful address with apt illustration the preacher pointed to the development, growth, and death of the leaf as symbolic of the life of the individual. The golden autumn leaf after it had done its life work fell and the fgruit was gathered. In the world of Nature, the budding leaf was the herald of spring and all nature was full of glory, and in time it fulfilled its mission and passed away. So the human life was on earth fpr a season and then passed away, but being dead yet spoke. Their late pastor’s life would yet speak to them. The years of. the leaves of his life would be a source of spiritual joy to them. The preacher concluded an able address by reviewing the leading characteristics of the late pastor’s life and his work, which to a large extent has already appeared in these columns. The hymns sung were suitable to the occasion, and Miss Jopp sang very feelingly the solo “Beyond the Sunset.”