ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 19517, 17 May 1922, Page 4

ABOUT PEOPLE

Mr James Lenihan, first assistant at the Bluff School, has been appointed first assistant at St. George School Colonel D’Arcy Ch ay tor leaves New Zealand by the lonic on June 9, for the Old Country, where he will reside for some time. As Mr R. P. Hudson, M.P., for Motueka, is still in hospital, he will be unable to accompany the Hon. C. J. Parr, Minister of Education, on his visit- to the West Coast this month. Mr D. F. McKillop, headmaster of ths Winton School, has been appointed headmaster of the North School, in succession to Mr Sproat who succeeds Mr D. McNeil as headmaster of the Waihopai School. At last night's meeting of the Town Council a motion of sympathy with the Mayor in the recent death of hia brother (Mr F. Lillicrap) was passed on the motion of Councillor T. D. Lennie, seconded by Councillor F. W. Preddy. Dr C. A. L. Davies, Assistant Medical Officer of Health for Aucklajid, has resigned from the Haith Department, as he is entering into private practice. He is a native of Wellington, and joined the Health Department shortly after the termination of the war. Mr J. Wadworth, of Warwick Downs Station, Otapiri, and Mr Faulks, of Pemproke, leave the district this week en route for Africa on big game hunting. Mr Faulks recently returned from Alaska, whither ho went on a similar expedition.—Winton Record. The senior cadet of the Mataura Port Office, Mr H. W. McDonald, after three years’ service, has been transferred to Gore, and was a few days ago waited upon by members of the Mataura staff and presented with a gold fountain pen. The postmaster, Mr De La Mer, in making the presentation spoke of Mr McDonald as a courteous, capable, and obliging officer. Mr McDonald’s successor is Mr Lysaght. Several names are mentioned as those of possible candidates for the Patea seat in the Liberal interest at the next election. They include Mr W. Monjson, who has already contested the seat on various occasions, Mr Collins (chairman of the Wanganui Education Board), Mr A. T. Christensen (chairman of the Patea Harbour Board), and Mr J. R. Corrigan (chairman of the Hawera Dairy Company). The Wyndham Herald says: Mr William Gibson, who is well known as a farm labourer in this district for over a quarter of a century, has come in for a legacy of £13,000. He tells us that this was left to him by a bachelor cousin in Scotland. This cousin was engaged in fanning a large property, and he told Mr Gibson that, should he not marry, he would make him heir to what he would leave. A letter from Mr Gibson was enclosed with his will. The Rev. C. E. Fox, who passed his examination for the degree of Doctor of Literature in the University of New Zealand, is a native of Gisbourne, and is a son of the late Canon Fox. He received his theological training at St. John’s College, where he gained a diploma in 1899. In the same year he graduated M.A. with honours at the Auckland University College. In 1902 he joined the staff of the Melanesian Mission, and since then he has laboured continuously in that wide field, his headquarters being at Heuru, on the Island of San Christobal, in the Solomons group. He is recognised as one of the greatest authorities on matters affecting the Solomon’s and in qualifying for his latest degree he has written an interesting thesis on the ethnology of that group. He also has compiled an exhaustive native diction ary which will be published shortly.