ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 19515, 15 May 1922, Page 4

ABOUT PEOPLE

Mr A. C. Hanlon, of Dunedin, is at pro sent on a viat to Invercargill. Mrs A. D. Ford, Mayoress of Riccarton, is in Southland spending a short holiday. At present she is staying at Edendale. K Miss R- L. Mclvor, of the Invercargill telephone exchange, has been transferred to Dunedin. She will be replaced by Mis E. Fletcher, of the Arrowtown postal staff. Mr G. W. Taylerts name is mentioned by the Eltham Argus as that of a posible Liberal candidate for the Egmont electorate. Mr Tayler, who is an hotelkeeper at Eltham, was the first mayor of the borough. The honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity has been conferred by Victoria University, affiliated to the University of Toronto, on the Rev. C. H. Laws, BA. principal of the Methodist Theological College of New Zealand, located at Remuera, Auckland.

Major Cazyer, M.P., and Mrs Caxyer, who have been guests at Government House, Auckland, for some time, will probably leave on their return to England by the Makura towards the end of the month. They will be accompanied by the Hon. Lucy Jellicoe, who intends spending a year in England. Mr J. C. Mercer has severed his connection with the South Canterbury Aviation Company, and intends to give up flying. He will probably settle down in Christchurch, where he was occupied in the motor business up till the time of his engagement with the Canterbury Aviation Company, where he learned to fly under the late Mr C. M. Hill, with whom he was associated in < the training of pupils. The Rev. J. N. Milne has been appointed editor of the Methodist Times, in succession to the Rev. W. J. Williams, who has relinquished the editorship, after a long period of service. Mr Milne commenced his ministry in England in 1902, and has been for the last three years in New Zealand. He is at present stationed at St. Albans. He is the author of a book, entitled “When the Dream Came True.” The many friends in New Zealand of the late Sir Ernest Shackleton (says the Christchurch Press) read with keen regret the statement published recently that Lady Shackleton was left penniless owing to Sir Ernest having put his all into the Quest expedition. The news came from New Y’ork and was published by the Weekly Press beneath a portrait of Lady Shackleton. We now learn that an intimate friend of Sir Ernest's, distressed by the news, cabled Homo from Wellington, making inquiries, and was relieved to get a reply that the report was unfounded. Mr Akins Yantgisawa, an architect and town-planner, attached to the Japanese Home Department, and expert adviser to the Central Town-planning Committee, and Ixxial Town-planning Committee, of Tokio, ia at present visiting Wellington. Mr Yanagisawa’s mission is to seek as much information as possible on the latest ideas in town-planning, and since January last he has visited several towns in Java, besides making inquiries in Sydney and Melbourne. He has also visited Auckland, and to-morrow he will leave for San Francisco and Los Angeles. There are many young people at Gore who will remember one of the enthusiasts in the ladies’ hockey field ten years ago, in the person of Miss Jean Steveneon (says the Ensign). They will regret to hear that Miss Stevenson paased away at her mother's residence, Dunedin, yesterday. Mias Stevenson had ben in failing health for about twelve months. She was the fourth daughter of the late Mr Thomae Stevenson, at one time proprietor of the Phoenix Foundry at Goro. Prior to her illness, Mias Stevenson was employed in the National Bank, Dunedin. Mrs E. C. Glen, of Gore, is a sister. Cabled advice has been received from the Burma Oil Company, Rangoon, of the death there on April 28, of Mr Harold Elias Ward, youngest brother of ex-Chief-Detective Ward (Wellington) and Detective Sergeant Ward of Auckland. Deceased, who was 28 years of age, left New Zealand in 1911 for England to join the Coldstream Guards. He wae a member of the first Guards’ Brigade (the Contemptibles) sent to France at the outbreak of the war, and was wounded at the retreat from Monc Returning to bis regiment, he took part in “all the engagements up to the signing of the Armistice. Subsequently he volunteered for service in North Russia, and served there. On demobilisation he went to Burma, where, al the time of his death, he was in the employ of the Burma OU Company. Death resulted from an operation at Yenangyoong, for acute appendicitis.

The death occurred on Wednesday morning of Mr Thomas M'Qracken, the pn> prietor and editor of the Wairarapa Standard. Mr M'Cracken was born in Glaacoir 69 years ago, and in his early days was connected with a well-known Scottish bank. He took a prominent part in various sporte, also being connected with a Scottish Regiment and the Masonic and Oddfellow/ Societies. After coming to New Zealand, he was engaged in banking ajid later was editor of the Cromwell Argus. He was Mayor of Cromwell for acme time, and during the dredging boom was a share-broker in Dunedin. Some 16 years ago he came to Grey town, purchasing The Standard from Mr J. K Hornblow. Mr M'Cracken is survived by Mrs M'Cracken and three sons and two daughters, Mewre Ivon and Douglas (Australia), and Kenneth (Wellington), and Mrs R. Renal (Christchurch), and Miss Ooira (Greytown).