ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 18618, 16 August 1919, Page 5

ABOUT PEOPLE

The Rev. H. A. Job, of Christchurch, intends to return to Great Britdn after the' next no-license campdgn is concluded. The Dunedin Star announces that the Hon. J. T. Paul will offer himself as a candidate for Dunedin South in the Labour interests. Mr S. Fowle was yesterday appointed to represent the Wallace County Council on the Wallace H. and C.A. Board in place of the late Mr John Findlay. At the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce yesterday Mr A. le H. Hoyles was elected to represent the Chamber on the Technical College Board for the ensuing 12 months. Mr and Mrs James Calvert, of Roslyn Bush, have received word that their son. Trooper N. P. Calvert, who has been on Garrison duty in Egypt, is returning by the Ellenga due to arrive at Auckland on August 28. Mr Neil Paterson, lately of the staff of the Magistrate’s Court at Wellington, haa been appointed to the position of of the Court at Samoa. Mr Paterson, who is a B.A. and a LL.B., was at one time practising as a barrister and solicitor in the Otago district. He has left for Samoa. A Press Association message from Wellington states that Daniel J. Sweetzer was killed in a motor fatality on the Manawatu Gorge road. Mr Sweetzer was recently demobilised from the forces, in which ho held the rank of major. During the war he performed the duties of Adjutant at Trentham. He was a married man with a family and resided at Petone. Dr R. H. Makgill, District Health Officer at Auckland, is to be Acting-Chief Health Officer and Inspector-General of Hospitals during the absence of Dr. T. H. A. Valentine, who has received six months’ leave of absence. Dr. Makgill is senior officer of the Department next to Dr. Valintine. It is not certain yet if Dr. Makgill’s place at Auckland will be filled temporarily. The Rev. J. M. Steward arrived in Auckland by the mission steamer Southern Cross (says an Auckland exchange.) Mr Steward has been engaged in mission work in the Solomon Islands for the last 16 years. Previously he held a curacy at Watford (Herts, England). A meeting composed of the clergy of the mission held at Norfolk Island recently recommended him to the General Synod in New Zealand for acceptance as Bishop of Melanesia. The Synod have not yet discussed the matter. It is announced that Lieut.-Colonel (temporary Colonel) J. E. Hume, R.N.ZA., who has been in ill-health recently and who lately commanded the Wellington Military District, has retired. Colonel Hume before the war commanded the Regiment of Royal N.Z. Artillery, and in 1914 was appointed to the command of the Auckland Military District. He then received the command of the Wellington Military District, an appointment which he held for three years until ill-health obliged him to relinquish his duties.—Press Association.