ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 19502, 17 March 1925, Page 6

ABOUT PEOP LE

Mr H. L. Purvis left by yesterday afternoon’s express for the north. Mr R. W. Moir, headmaster of the Wairio School, has resigned to take up a position under the Otago Education Board. Mr John S. Polson, managing-director of Suckling Bros, Ltd., of Christchurch, is spending a holiday in Gore. Mr H. E. Murray has resigned his position as sole teacher of the Limehills School. It is understood that Mr Murray is retiring on superannuation from the teaching profession. Mr D. J. Donald, stationmaster at Lambton, Wellington, has been transferred on promotion to the position of stationmaster at Invercargill. Mr W. R. Thomson, foreman of Speden’s furniture factory, Gore, met with a painful accident on Friday, two of his fingera being caught in the planer. Mr Thomson was taken to the Gore Hospital, where he is reported to be progressing favourably. Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M., of Dunedin, arrived by the express last evening and is a guest at the Grand Hotel. Mr Bundle will take over the Magistrate’s Bench at Invercargill in the absence of Mr G. Cruickshank, S.M. Mr Frank Tate (Director of Education in Victoria), who is at present touring New Zealand, went north yesterday morning by the express. Mr John Caughley (New Zealand Director of Education) was also a passenger from Invercargill on the same train. A Greymouth Press Association wire records the fact that the Rev. Father Long, parish Priest at Greymouth was farewelled last night on the eve of a holiday trip of a year to Europe. He was presented with a purse of £340, by the parishioners in the presence of a large gathering. Herr C. Busing, German Consul-General for Australia, New Zealand, and the Islands, arrived at Auckland yesterday by the liner Aorangi, on an official visit. He comes to the Dominion seeking general information. In an interview, states a Press Association wire, he said: “Some people in Australia are friendly to us, and some are not. It needs some time to overcome sentiment.” Herr Busing leaves in a few days for Wellington, and later will go to the Islands.

I Mr W. L. Lowrie, the American Consul I for New Zealand, arrived at Auckland yesI terday from Sydney by the liuer Aorangi, I accompanied by Mrs Lowrie. They were • last stationed in Greece, where they wit- ; nessed five changes of Government in four | years. They saw about a million refugees ! from Asia Minor poured into Greece about two years ago. They are proving a big problem. “However,” Mr Lowrie added, “I think the country is well settled now.” Commercial relations between Greece and America were very close and trade between the two countries exceedingly heavy. The following transfers of teachers are announced by the Education Department: —Mr P. McMullan, sole teacher of the Taramoa School, has been appointed sole teacher of the Wendonside School; Mr J. S. Haywood, sole teacher of the Northope School, • has been appointed sole teacher of the Tarainoa School; Miss A. V. Anderson, head ! teacher of the Fairfax School, has been appointed head teacher of the Limestone Plains School; Mr F. V. Dillon, sole teacher of the Wendonside School, has been apjx)inted sole teacher of the Cardrona School; Mr R. D. Cox, head teacher of the North Forest Hill School, has been transferred as sole teacher at the Waimumu . School; Mr J. W. Martin, M.A., of Fernhills, has been appointed head teacher of the j Fernhills School; Miss M. A. Brown has been appointed assistant teacher in the Ryal i Bush School.

In a letter from Sydney an ex-lnvercar-gill lady refers to the striking testimony to the memory of the late Rev. John Ferguson at the memorial service in his church on the Monday following his death. “It was a wonderful tribute to a great man,” she writes. “Every denomination was represented—Salvation Army, Roman Catholic priests, Church of England, the Governor of New South Wales, the Chief Justice and practically every barrister and solicitor in Sydney. The church was packed, there being not even standing room, and thousands stood in the streets. There were six traffic policemen on duty to direct the traffic. The flowers were wonderful, hundreds of wreaths and sheafs of lilies. Professor Mclntyre gave a very short and good appreciation of the Reverend John, but I thought the most wonderful part of it all was the many different classes who were there—every nationality and many who looked down and out, also hundreds of nurses and returned men and saddest of all, old Mr Christie, who has been church officer to Mr Ferguson since his arrival here—he was most devoted to the Reverend John.”