ABOUT PEOPLE.

Southland Times, Issue 19330, 15 September 1921, Page 4

ABOUT PEOPLE.

The death of Mr H. O. Ledger, aged 83, a leading Nelson resident, is reported by a Press Association telegram.

At a meeting of the Bluff Horticultural Society, Mr L. Taylor, the retiring secretary was presented with a pipe and wallet in recognition of the excellent services rendered by him during a lengthy term of office. Mr J. Lenihan has been appointed successor to Mr Taylor.

Mr Malcolm Brown, who died on Saturday at the age of 88 years, was a very old resident of the Lake district. He was chiefly engaged in farming. He served in the Crimean War, and subsequently with the British troops in India at the time of the Mutiny, taking part in the siege of Lucknow. He was unmarried.

Word was received at Gore yesterday (says the Ensign) of the death in Sydney of Mrs Leahy, relict of the late Dr Leahy, formerly of Ashburton. Mrs I-eahy was the eldest daughter of the late Mrs R. L. Begg, well known throughout Otago and Southland, and had resided in Sydney for the past fifteen or sixteen years.

The Arrowtown Medical Committee has selected Dr W. Haslett for the position of medical officer for the district. There were seven applications, one of which came from Samoa. Dr Haslett is at present acting as locum tenens at Middlemarch. He put in four years service in the war and acted 1 in the capacity of house surgeon at Wellington Hospital for two years. The selection has to be submitted to the Southland Hospital Board for approval.

The Prime Minister, who is now on his way across the Pacific, is due in Auckland on Friday, September 30 (telegraphs the Wellington correspondent of the Southland Times', and it is anticipated that he will be ready to take his seat when the House of Representatives sits on the following Tuesday. Parliament will then have had only six sitting days, including two devoted chiefly to formal business, and very little progress will have been made with the work of the session. It is quite likely, indeed, that the Address in-Reply debate will not be completed before Mr Massey takes hia seat.

It is a peculiar coincidence that during this week when the jubilee of the borough is being celebrated, so many of Southland’s early settlers have crossed the border. Among these is Mr George Burgess, who died at the residence of his son at South Invercargill, on Tuesday, at the age of 85 years. Mr Burgess had almost completed his 50 years of residence in Invercargill, arriving here from Manchester in the year 1874. During his residence here he saw the town gradually develop into its present flourishing condition. Mr Burgess was of a retiring disposition and he did not occupy any public position, but he took a very keen interest in all municipal affaire. He was very widely and popularly known and his death will be sincerely regretted by many old friends.