ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 19512, 11 May 1922, Page 4

ABOUT PEOPLE

Mr H. W. Macdonald, postmaster at Mataura, has been transferred to Gore.. Mr A. E. Waite, inspecting officer of the Labour Department, is at present on an official visit to Invercargill. Dr Ethal Sands, formerly medics] officer for the Hawke’s Bay district, has left for Sydney, where she intends to reside. Mr P. Fraser, M P., who has been sufferin from an attack of influenza during the part few days, expects to be able to get about again next week. Mr R. M. Isaacs, formerly stationed in Invercargill and now Assistant Railway Traffic Manager at Dunedin, is at present on a visit to this town.

Advice has been received from Chnst church from J. and H. McLaren, Leeds, that Mr W. A. McLaren, who is well known in Christchurch, has been seriously ill from heart trouble in Queensland. He is proceeding to England, but must now be accompanied by a trained nurse. Mr McLaren did a good deal of pioneer work in the transport of wool by traction engine from country districts in Canterbury. Captain Matthew Thomas Clayton, who died at Manurewa on Bunday at the age of 91 years, was a well-known figure on the Auckland water front. Born at Seisey, Sussex, England, he received his education at a Chichester boarding school, and at the age of 16 years entered the Mafaring life, soon rising to the poet of captain. In 1864 Captain Clayton arrived in New Zealand, and joined the New Zealand Insurance Company as marine surveyor, a position which he filled for over half a century. In 1875 he was appointed Lloyd’s surveyor, and in 1876 became examiner of masters and mates in seaman ship, also a surveyor under the Wrecks Act. It was only in 1912, after 37 years’ service that Captain Clayton resigned the position of sur'eyor for Lloyd’s at Auckland.