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Southland Times, Issue 19276, 21 June 1924, Page 4

ABOUT PEOPLE

A message from Pekin announce® the death at Nanking of Mr Frank Carpenter, the well known American traveller and author. Mr F. R. Wilson, accountant in the Invercargill offices of the National Mortgage and Agency Co., Ltd., has been transferred to the head office of the firm in Dunedin in a similar capacity. Mr Wilson will leave about the end of the month to take up his new duties. Mr Lancelot Moore, resident engineer in New Zealand for Messrs Boving and Co., Ltd., who has been on a trip to Lake Monowai to look over the machinery supplied by his firm to the Southland Electric Power Board, and to arrange for its installation, left for the north by yesterday’s mid-day express. Mr J. R. Oxford, MjL, principal of Winchester College, Winchester, died yesterday, says a Timaru Press Association wire. He came to the Dominion 30 years ago, and after teaching at Wanganui Collegiate school, removed to South Canterbury, and founded Winchester College for boys, which has been successfully conducted by him for the past 20 years. At the Provincial Conference of the Farmers’ Union held in Invercargill yesterday, Mr A. Mackenzie, of Otahuti, was unanimously elected to the position of President for the ensuing term. The Conference also recorded its appreciation of the services rendered by Mr Peter Arnott, the retiring President, during his term of office. Following the retirement of Mr A. T. Bothamley. 1.8.0., Mr B. E. S. Stocker, M.A., at present Second Clerk Assistant of the Legislative Council, will become Clerk Assistant, and Mr C. M. Bothamley, son of Mr A. T. Bothamley, will be promoted [rom Permanent Committee Clerk to Second Clerk Assistant. Mr F. K. Lowe, son of Mr A. F. Lowe C.M.G., Clerk of Parliaments and Clerk’of the Ijegislative Council, will become Permanent Committee Clerk.