ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 18931, 3 May 1923, Page 4

ABOUT PEOPLE

Mr T. W. Vickery has returned from his holiday trip to Melbourne and Sydney. A Christchurch message states that Mr Wilford, M.P., passed through Christchurch last night on his return to Wellington. An Ashburton telegram reports the death of Mr Frank Burgon Standish, aged 87. He arrived in New Zealand in 1844. Deceased claims blood ties with the late Miles Standish, leader of the Puritan Fathers. He was a Maori war veteran, and had considerable war service in- New Plymouth. He was a well-known pio neer of Canterbury. Dr and Mrs Thacker will leave Christchurch on May 19 on their way to America and England. They will proceed first to San Francisco, and then go across America, arriving in England about the last week of July. After visiting Ireland and Scotland, they will tour through various parts of the Continent, and come back to America, going south to Florida and Cuba for the winter. Later on, Dr and Mrs Thacker intend to visit Japan, China and the Malay Peninsula.

Mr L. R. Taylor, who has been stationmaster at Centre Bush for the past five and a-half years, was tendered a complimentary social in Mr C. R. Shand’s barn on Monday evening last. Mr Taylor has been promoted in the service. There was a very large attendance of district settlers. Mr Shand, on behalf of the settlers of the district, presented Mr and Mrs Taylor with a handsome cabinet of stainless cutlery, and in doing so eulogised Mr Taylor’s services and his courteous and obliging manner. Mr Shand’s remarks were endorsee! by Messrs P. de la Perrelle, M.P., P. A Bradley and John Keith. Mr Taylor will assume temporary charge of Heriot railway station.

Professor Dettman, of Auckland University College, has been appointed headmaster of the Sydney Grammar School. He is an Australian, and was educated in Sydney, where he took his degree. He completed his university education at Balliol College, Oxford, whither he went on travelling scholarship, and where he was a classical exhibitioner. Returning to Australia he was four years English master at Sydney Gram mar School, and for a year acting professor of classics at Adelaide. He was appointed professor of classics at Auckland University College in 1908. He is a keen cricketer, and did a great deal to bring on the University eleven of which he was a member for some years. He has ab»o been identified for a long time with th? government of Auckland cricket, and is nowchairman of the Auckland Cricket Association. He is chairman of the Professorial Board, a member of University Senate and governor of King’s College, Auckland. The Sydney Grammar School, to which he goes as headmaster, is the leading secondary school in Sydney.