ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 18938, 11 May 1923, Page 4

ABOUT PEOPLE

Telegraphic advice was received by the secretary of the Southland Hospital Board (Mr Pryde) yesterday afternoon, that Mr J. W. Miller had been elected to represent the Lake County on the Board.

A Sydney massage announces that Dr Vedanayakan Samuel Azareafi. Anglican bishop of Dornakel, India, is en route to New Zealand. He was accorded a civic reception by the Lord Mayor. Mr P. Jackson, of the Palmerston North Post Office staff, who has been promoted to the position of mail-room supervisor at the Invercargill Post Office, will commence his duties in the local office to-day. Mr T. A. Chamberlain, who has been in charge of the Waikaka Post Office for over a year, is to be transferred to the control of the Waikaia office, vice Mrs Murphy, who has retired on superannuation. The Hospital Board at its meeting yesterday adopted a recommendation made by the Matron that Nurses E. J. Galbraith, F. McNamara and M. Stafford, having completed their preliminary training, should be appointed to the permanent staff. A Wellington telegram states that there was a large and representative gathering at the memorial service to Phyllis Porter, a member of the Pkntomime Omnpany, who died from injuries by her clothes igniting on the stage. Messages of sympathy from Australia and all parts of the Dominion were received.

Mr A. Macpherson, formerly of the Department of Agriculture, has received somewhat belatedly a commemorative medal of bronze “For distinguished services” at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, together with a framed certificate, which, is dated December 4, 1915. Mr Macpherson was the chief executive officer in connection with, the exhibit made by the New Zealand Department of Agriculture at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, and in addition his servees were frequently called for by the Exposition authorities in respect to disputes which arose amongst the exhibitors of different nations, and these services were always freely rendered. The medal and the framed certificate reached Mr Macpherson about the beginning of March last, the explanation given of the delay in forwarding them being that the Exposition offices in San Francisco were closed for two years after the conclusion of the Great War.