ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 19519, 19 May 1922, Page 4

ABOUT PEOPLE

Mr AL H. Robinson, general manager in New Zealand for Reuter’s, Ltd., is in the South Island on a three weeks’ business trip. Mr Hunter Macandrew has retired from his position of assistant chief engineer uf the New Zealand Railways. Mr Blow, the New Zealand Government agent at Sydney, is a passenger by the Makura for Wellington, says a Press Association message from Sydney. Mr R. W. Inder, of the Indian Forest Service, is visiting the South Island after having spent some four months in the North Island. Bishop Steward, of Melanesia, waa a passenger by the Ulimaroa from Auckland for Sydney, en route for England. He will return to bis diocese in about twelve months* time. Dr Boxer, C.M.G., returned by the lonic this week from England, after an absence of nearly a year. He went through a postgraduate* course, visiting the principal hospitals in Great Britain. Mr A. W. Swap, relieving postmaster for the sub-offices in the Invercargill district, has received notice of his transfer to the position of supervisor of the Dunedin Telephone Exchange. At Hawera, the Mayor (Mr E. Dixon, M.P.) wah presented with a diploma conferred by the British Sunday School Union in recognition of his ’twenty seven years of continuous service as Sunday school teacher and superintendent The Rev. George Budd (Auckland) Home Mission Superintendent of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, will arrive in Invercargill to-day after a visit of inspection to all the Home Mission stations m Southland. Mr T. R. Hickson, for many years manager of the Bank of New South Wales at Hokitika, has received notice of his transfer to the Dannevirke branch. He will be succeeded at Hokitika by Mr F. Brodie, of ths Hawera staff of the bank. A London Press Association cable states that Sir Francis Bell proceeded to Genoa at the invitation of Mr Lloyd George to represent New Zealand during the last days of the Conference. Sir James Allen is participating in the League of Nations financial conference at Genoa. Commander Wilfred Ward Hunt, of HILLS. Melbourne, who wap instrumental in rescuing the crew of the schooner Helen B. Sterling, sailed for England in the mail steamer Outer ley last month. He has gons to rejoin the British Navy after having served for three years in the Australia* Navy, to which he had been lent. An Ashburton Press Association telegram records the death of Mr Frederick Mainwaring, aged 78, Clerk of the Ashburton County Council since its constitution in 1878. During his 44 years’ service, Mr Main waring had never taken his annual holiday until a fortnight ago, when he was granted a year’s leave of absence on full pay. He arrived in the Dominion in 1864 and was amember of an old Staffordshire naval family. The Prime Minister has informed Mr A. S. Malcolm, M.P., that he regrets that he cannot leave Wellington any earlier than the Saturday night previous to the data (May 30) of the Winter Show in Dunedin, and that it is, therefore, impossible for him to go to Clydevale (in Mr Malcolm’s district), to open the show there on May 24. Mr Massey adds that his time in the South Island will be limited, and he will not be able to meet all the requests that have beea made to him to visit certain districts.

Next Sunday afternoon the Board of Directors of the Young Women’s Christian Association will give an informal afternoon fot girls. The club rooms (Hallenstein’s Buildings), will he open from 4 to 6.15 p.m, and a cordial invitation is extended to all girts. For those away from home, especially, Sunday is sometimes a very lonely day and it is honed that this gathering may supply a touch of home and provide among those who are strangers to the to’/n an opportunity of making friends. Tea will be served at 5 p.m. The hoeteas on thia occasion will be the president, Mrs S. Brow*.