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Southland Times, Issue 18965, 12 June 1923, Page 4

ABOUT PEOPLE

Messrs G. H. Mason and H. I*. Smith arrived in Invercargill yesterday in connection. with Afforestation Limited.

Mr Leslie Hinge, photographer of the Auckland Weekly is at present obtaining photographs of the stripping of salmon on the Upukeroroa. Mr W. A. Sproat, headmaster of the Waihopai School, has received notice of hi® appointment to the position of headmaster of the Forbury School Dunedin. He will leave Invercargill to take up hii new duties at the beginning of July. The following appointment and promotions of officers in the Territorial Forces ar® gazetted:—W. A. Gow, appointed 2nd Lieutenant 11th Battery, N.Z. Artillery, Invercargill ; Captain A. A. McLean, Llth Batten-, N.Z.A., Invercargill, promoted to the rank of Major; Lieutenant J. B. Maw»on, M.C., Southland Boys’ High School Cadets, promoted to the rank of captain. A Paris cablegram announces th® death of Pierre Loti (Louis Marie Julien Viaund), the famous novelist, aged 73. The late novelist, who was also a captain in the French Navy, spent most of his life in th® East and his novels portray vividly th® glamour of Oriental life, whitet his word paintings of Turkey and Japan are memorable He had been a member of the French Academy since 1891, and w»» made Commander of the legion of Honour in 1910, and received the Grand Cross in 1921. Me st of his novals have been translated into English. The death is announced from Wellington of Mr Montague Mosley, at an advanced age. To the older generation Mr Mosley will be well remembered as a prominent figure in journalistic circles. He was editor of various journals over a long period of years. He came to New Zealand from the Old Country in 1861, and joined the Postal Service, but subsequently retired from his position to take up journalism, for which he had a natural bent. For some considerable period he was a member of the reading staff of the Christchurch Press. Deceased is survived by a widow, and five nona and one daughter.