ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 19518, 18 May 1922, Page 4

ABOUT PEOPLE

Mr and Mrs Mends, Qf Tauranga, are at present on a visit to Invercargill and are staying at the dub hotel Sub-Inspector Eccles, who has been in town in connection with a Magistrate’s Court case, will return to Dunedin this morning. Mr Mark Lemon Romer, K.C., has been appointed a High Court judge, vice Mr Justice Petersen, deceased, says a London Press Association cable. A Press Association message from Sydney states that the Rev. Mr W’arner, of New Zealand, was elected vice-president of the Australasian Congregational Union. Mr M. J. Mack denies any intention of standing for Parliament at the general eleca Wellington Press Association telegram. A London Press Association telegram states that Sir Ernest Shackleton left all his unsettled property, amounting to £556, to his wife. His personality ia nil. The Rev. George Rayner haa been elected president of the Australian Congregational Assembly and the Rev Mr McCook moderator of the Presbyterian Assembly, says a Sydney Press .Association iressage. The death of Sir Leslie Ward, portrait painter and caricaturist, is reported by a London Press Association message. Sir Leslie, who was 71 years of age, was a member of the Royal Society of Portrait . Painters. From 1873 to 1909 he was . “Spy” of Vanity Fair, but he latterly de- ' voted a large proportion of his time to portraiture. At the Technical School Teachers’ Conference the following were elected, (say# a Wellington Press Association telegram):— President, Mr R. J. Thompson (Ashburton) ; vice-president, Mr F. Martin (Wellington) ; secretary and treasurer, Mim M # Robertson (Wanganui); executive, Mim Nelson (Dunedin), Messrs Me William (Wellington), Bowring and Jones (Christchurch). Mr W. A. Thompeon, better known aa ‘ The Storyman,” has begun his work aa the official storyteller to sick children (saya the “Sydney Daily Telegraph”). 'This is the first appointment of ite kind in the world, but the Government is satisfied that Mr Thompson's work will have a beneficial effect on our sick children, so it is being made possible for him to give his entire time to his task among the little ones. His main centre will be at the Collaroy branch of the Royal Alexandra Hospital. Mr Thompson will not only engage the attention of the children by telling storiea. They will be taught whatever manual work is possible to their age and condition, and any other form of education that he may think fit. Sing too will play a big part. The children will be taught to sing with their teacher, and encouraged to do it while he is away. By this means a dull and otherwise profitless hour will be passed.