ABOUT PEOPLE.

Southland Times, Issue 19229, 20 May 1921, Page 4

ABOUT PEOPLE.

At yesterday’s monthly meeting of the Land Board Mr T. Pound was appointed auctioneer for the Board. A Brisbane Press Association message states that Mr Barnes has resigned the leadership of the Nationalist Party. Mr William Bradley, better known as “Cairo” Bradley, will arrive by the first express from Dunedin to-day. The Governor-General Viscount Jellicoe. has sufficiently recovered from the severe cold from which he has been suffering to attend public functions.

Mr C. P. Skerrett, K.C., who is now at Rotorua, is about to visit England and will leave from Wellington by the Remuera, which is due to sail on May 24. Mr J. Perrett, of Sydney, president of the council of the Master Painters’ Association of Australia, who is visiting the dominion, is at present at Auckland. He is accompanied by Mrs Perrett. Mr C. E. Statham, M.P., leader of the National Progressive and Moderate Labour Party, is at present in Wellington. He will preside over a council meeting and attend to other matters in connection with the party. Mr E. Grayndler, general secretary of the Australian Workers’ Union, will leave Sydney this week on a visit to New Zealand. Mr Grayndler is a brother of Mr C. Grayndler, secretary of the New Zealand Worker’s Union, and his visit to the dominion will be connected with the interests of the two bodies. A New York Press Association meaaagw reports the death of Mr Franklin K. Lane, former Secretary for the Interior, at Rochester, Minnesota. Mr Lane was bom in Canada in 1864, and removed to California during childhood. He was educated at the University of California, and in early life engaged in newspaper work. Later ha was admitted to the Bar, and practised at San Francisco. He was a member and for some time chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission prior to entering President Wilson’s Cabinet. Mr Robert W. Sinclair, marine engineer, who died at Wellington this week was ninety years of age. He came to New Zealand in the ship Cadusus, arriving in Auckland in 1862. Subsequently he joined the e.s. White Swan, which struck a rock whilst removing the members of the Government from Auckland to Wellington after the lasU named city had been made the capital of New Zealand. Mr Sinclair served as engineer of the Government paddle steamer Luna, and w’as engaged in other vessels until his retirement about eighteen years ago. Mr H. Turner (who becomes chief aecountant in the Public Trust Office consequent of the transfer of Mr P. D. Verschaffelt to the position of Assistant Public Service Commissioner) joined the head office of the Public Trust Department as a cadet on February 13, 1809, and wae stationed in Wellington until 1909, when be was transferred to Christchurch. He returned to Wellington in September, 1911, since when he has successively filled the position of chief examiner, assistant accountant, controller of the wills, trusts, and agencies division, and inspector. He waa absent on active service from May 13, 1917, until April 15, 1919. A veteran of the Maori War, Mr William Carter died at the Auckland Hospital on Sunday morning, aged eighty-three. Mr Carter was born at Montrose, Scotland, in 1838, and left for New Zealand in 1861 by the ship Royal Stewart, arriving at Lyttelton. In 1862 he joined the Otahuhu Cavalry, but afterwards went to Colonel Nixon’s Defence Force as a trumpeter. He was sent to the Waikato, where he served under General Cameron, taking part in engagements at Teroi, the Waipa River, and Paterangi. After the war Mr Carter was engaged in farming in the Auckland district until 1915, when he entered the Veterans’ Home, of which he has since remained an inmate. He leaves a grown-up family. He was the possessor of the New Zealand war medal, and drew a New Zealand military pension.