ABOUT PEOPLE.

Southland Times, Issue 19256, 21 June 1921, Page 4

ABOUT PEOPLE.

Mrs H. Y. Widdowson, wife of Dunedin’s senior magistrate, died on Sunday morning after a long illness. A Sydney Press Association cable reports the death of Mr William Kearsley, a member of the New South Wales Assembly.

Mr C. T. Grant of Winton left yesterday to attend the annual meeting of the Milking Shorthorn Association at Palmerston North.

The death occurred on Sunday at Hawthorne Avenue, Mornington, of Mr Thomas H. Dick, eldest son of the late Hon. Thos. Dick, Minister of Education and Colonial Secretary in the Hall Ministry (1880-82) and in the Whitaker Ministry (1882-83).

Captain P. K. Fowler, of the New Zealand Aero Transport Company, left by the first express to-day for a short holiday at his home in the North Island. He will be relieved at the West Plains Aerodrome by Captain M. Buckley, who is well known to Southlanders.

The death took place at Oamaru on Saturday of Mr Jasper G. Nicholls, who represented Otago at cricket against Canterbury at Christchurch in aJnuary, 1877, and later in the same season played for Otago at Dunedin ngainst All England (Lillywhite’s team). Of late years Mr Nicholls was a steward of the North Otago Jockey Club. George Thompson Campbell, who cam® out in the “Marie Bahm” in 1872, died last Thursday, at his home in Robertson Street, Lindisfarne. On his arrival in New Zealand he went from Dunedin to Milton and for several years was a journalist on the Bruce Herald” with the original proprietors. He left the profession to enter into sawmilling and was connected with that trade continuously until about two months prior to his death. He was a well known figure in the timber trade in Otago and Southland and his death will undoubtedly be regretted by a large circle. He wm a son of Mr Robert Campbell, Schoolmaster, Stonehaven, Kincardineshire, where he wa» born. He was 67 years of age at his death. He leaves a widow and family of three sons and six daughters. George, Robert and John, who are engaged in. sawmilling in the North Island, and Mrs Audrey (Wellington), Mrs Hugh Hunter (Waianiwa), Mrs W. T. Smith (Jnvercargill), Mrs Pearson (Balchitha), Mrs A. Goodsir (Winton) and Mrs Jernes Wyeth (Woodlands). The funeral took place yesterday at Gore of Mr R. Whittingham, a well-known resident of Southland for many years. The late Mr Whittingham was born at Kirby-Lons-dale, near Preston, England, 77 years ago. He followed the occupation of a cooper, and in 1880 arrived in New Zealand by the ship Zealandia, landing at Port Chalmers. For the next twenty years Mr Whittingham was connected with the brewing industry in Dunedin and Gore, also leasing the Star Hotel at Waikaka for a few years. Mr Whittingham then came on to Invercargill where he owned, first in Biggar street and then the Waikiwi brewery. The last named he carried on until the time of his death, while he also carried on farming in the Makarewa district. During his residence at Gore, Mr Whittingham was a member of the Gore Borough Council and a prominent member of the Gore Racing Club. He was pre-deceased by Mrs Whittingham three years ago, and leaves two sons, Messrs George and John Whittingham, and one daughter to mourn their loss.