ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 19986, 28 September 1926, Page 8

ABOUT PEOPLE

Mr. Edgar Watt left for the north by the • second express yesterday. Mr A. H. Mackrell returned from Wellington by the express yesterday evening.

Dr Stanley Brown was a passenger to Invercargill from Christchurch by the late express yesterday. Invercargill visitors to Dunedin at present include Messrs J. Kingsland, F. W. Lee, W. F. White, A. W. Ironside, J. Ironside, and W. Bell.

Miss Young, president of the Dunedin branch of the Trained Nurses’ Association, started yesterday morning for Napier, where the annual conference is to be held. Mr G. D. Cadden, who has been on a business visit to Invercargill, leaves for Wellington by the express this morning to join the Maheno on his return trip to Sydney.

Reg Trowern, the well-known boxer, who is to meet Charlie Purdy on Wednesday night, arrived in Invercargill yesterday evening. He was met at the train by members of the local association. Mr G. H. Munro. Msc., lately of the Auckland University College, has been appointed research assistant at the National Physical Laborator’s Radio Research Station at Ditton Park, near London. An Auckland telegram states that Mr Rose, who died on Saturday, aged 86, had been 70 years in New Zealand. He was the oldest Customs officer in the Dominion when he retired from the position of Collector at Auckland in 1905. A Dunedin Press Association wire states — A war veteran, Mr George Ballantyne Turnbull, aged 70, who joined up at the age of 60 and served in the Great War with four sons, died suddenly on Sunday. He leaves a family and eight sons and daughters residing in various parts of New Zealand.

Mr J. F. Field, forest ranger in Southland for the Forestry Department, has been appointed to the position of check appraisal officer for the Canterbury-Westland district with his headquarters at Christchurch. Mr Field, who has already left Invercargill to take up his new duties, will be succeeded by Mr G. Johnston, of Reefton. By the death of Brother George O’Meara at Auckland the Marist Brothers have lost one of their most distinguished members. He was educated in Victoria, and, coming to New Zealand, taught at Wellington. Timaru, and Auckland. He was transferred tc Australia in 1916, and held some of the most important positions in the order. He returned to Auckland when his health broke down three months ago.—Press Association telegram.

Mr and Mrs T. Hynes and family, of Hong-Kong, who were passengers by the Manuka which arrived at Bluff from Melbourne last evening, are the guests of Mr A. Wilson, of Invercargill. Mr Hynes and Mr Wilson were camp mates during the Boer War, and the former, who is Superintendent of Mails, Hong-Kong, intends to spend nine months’ leave in the Dominion. Before returning to the East Mr Hynes will make arrangements for members of his family to attend Dominion secondary schools.

There passed away recently at Dunedin a highly respected resident of Green Island in the person of Mr William Matthews, at the age of 50 years. The late Mr Matthews who was the eldest son of the late Mr Edward Matthews, of Benmore, Southland, was born in Gloucester, England, and came to the Dominion with his parents 48 years ago in the ship Western Monarch. At an early age he joined the Railways Department and remained with it for nearly 30 years, being at one stage a signalman at Christchurch, and later as yard foreman at Dunedin. He was a member of the Middlemarch Masonic Lodge. During his residence at Green Island he took an active interest in the Anglican Church and choir, as well as the football and other sports bodies. He leaves a widow and four children.—Otago Daily Times.