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Southland Times, Issue 19771, 20 February 1923, Page 4

ABOUT PEOPLE

A Gazette notice of February 12 appoints Mr Harold R. W'ilcox accountant of the Invercargill Savings Bank. Easter is the time chosen for the return to Australia of Sir Harry Lauder. He will begin in Sydney. Mr Alfred Turner, who managed Mr Cyril Maude’s season in Australia and New Zealand, has married Miss Shirley Huxley, an Australian actress.

The state of the health of the Hon Sir William Herries, who is an inmate of a private hospital in Wellington, continues to cause a great deal of anxiety to his friends.

Mr Frank Booth who for the last 12 years has been buyer for the Fancy and Haberdashery' Departments for Herbert Haynes and Co. is leaving and starts the first of the month with Messrs H. and J. Smith, Tay street, in a similar position. Owing to ill-health, the manager of the Melbourne branch of the Union Steamship Co. (Mr Vai. Johnson) has been obliged to relinquish bis duties temporarily and is proceeding to New Zealand, accompanied by his daughter.

Mr J. S. Collings, State organiser in Queensland for the Australian Labour Party, a member of the Queensland Central Executive of the party, and an exM.L.C. of Queensland, will arrive in Christchurch on Wednesday, and will stay there for a few days, delivering addresses. Lady Forbes-Robertson (Miss Gertrude Elliott) who has been touring South Africa with her theatrical company, reached Melbourne recently as a passenger by the steamer Diogenes. Lady Forbes-Robertson will open her Australian season at Adelaide on March 3, with an emotional play, “Woman to Woman.” Lord Clifford of Chudleigh, has written to the Mayor (Dr H. T. Thacker) regretting that, owing to a breakdown in health in Melbourne he is unable to carry out as arranged his lecturing tour through New Zealand. Lord Clifford says he trusts at a later date to have the pleasure of lecturing in Christchurch.

Mr J. D. Fraser, who has been organist of the Timaru Congregational Church for the past four years, has been appointed to a similar position in the Bank street Methodist Church, Timaru. Mr Fraser, when appointed to the position in the Congregational Church, was probably the youngest organist in New Zealand, he being then little over 14 years of age. Mr James White Dunlop, a marine engi neer, who died suddenly in Port Adelaide recently, was associated with the Union Steamship Company for many years. In recognition of his heroism in carrying a lifeline ashore at Great Barrier Island, New Zealand, from the wreck of the Wairarapa, in October, 1894, Mr Dunlop, then second engineer of the vessel, was awarded the Royal Humane Society’s medal and certificate, and was also presented by admirers with a gold watch and chain. Mr Dunlop superintended the installation of the turbines of the steamer Loongana at Dumbarton in 1904, and came out to Australia in charge of them, remaining with the liner as chief engineer for some years. Mr Dunlop was aged about 57 years.