ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 18622, 21 August 1919, Page 5

ABOUT PEOPLE

Mr M. A. Noble, after having devoted 25 years to cricket, was recently presented with a silver dinner gong as a mark of esteem and appreciation by the New South Wales Cricket Association.

Mr G. H. Knibbs, the Federal Statistician, has departed for London. He will be absent from Australia about six months and will attend the Conference of Statisticians of the world while .in the Old World. The staff of the Melanesian Mission unanimously appointed the Rev. J. M. Steward (Bishop-designate) administrator of the Mission, with the concurrence of the Mission staff at Norfolk Island, vice the Rev. R. P. Wilson, resigned. Mr William Martin Mutphy, seventy-nine, died in Dublin on June 26. Mr Murphy was a Nationalist member of Parliament from Dublin for seven years. He was active in several railway, electric tramway and lighting utilities in the United Kingdom, and he had constructed railways in the Gold Coast Colony, West Africa. In 1913 Mr Murphy was a leader of the employers in their resistance to the strike demands of the Dublin Transport Workers. He was president of the Dublin Chamber of Commerce, chairman of the Dublin United Tramways Company, and a director in the Great Southern and Western Railway of Ireland. In 1905 he founded “The Irish Independent,” the only half-penny daily morning newspaper in Ireland. Friends rallied out in force on Friday evening to the Scotts Gap Hall to welcome home four district returned boys, namely, Privates A. Kennedy, R. H. Officer, W. A. Swap, and R. H. Stewart. Mr W. Aitkea presided, and a splendid programme was given. Mr Aitken then called upon Mr J. C. Thomson to speak, and after an able address the speaker called on the guesta to accept from the district friends of Scotts Gap a gold albert and cross medal, suitably inscribed. An apology was received from Private Stewart, who with his brother has bought a small sheep run in the Wyndham district, and was busy taking possession of his new purchase on Friday. Amid loud applause the soldiers replied, thanking one and all for their kindness and hearty welcome. Supper was then supplied by the ladies, the hall again cleared, and dancing begun.