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Southland Times, Issue 20002, 16 October 1926, Page 8

ABOUT PEOPLE

Mr J. Brown, Dunedin, who has been on a short visit to Invercargill, returned to the north yesterday. Dr E. Douglas Tayler, Supervisor of Music, Education Department, is at present in Invercargill. Dr F. S. Batchelor has, on the nomination of the Otago Division, been elected to the office of president-elect of the New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association. Mr J. Quaker has been elected the Southland Centre’s delegate at the annual meeting of the executive of the New Zealand Athletic and Cycling Union, which will be held at Taumarunui. A Wellington telegram states that Dr. A. Cooper, S.M. (Wellington ), Mr John Alexander (Auckland! and Mr B. L. Dallard have been appointed members of the Prisons Board. Word has been received that Miss M. A. Steele, M.A., formerly on the staff of the Southland Girls’ High School, has passed the L.A.B. (performer’s certificate) in singing. It is worthy of mention that Miss Steele is the first Invercargill student in singing to secure the diploma. Her teacher was Mr Lillicrap. Mr William Nelsod, of Clinton (father of Mrs P. J. de la Mare) was a visitor to Wyndham on Wednesday and Thursday. He has been a resident of Clinton for over 50 years, and is there regarded as the “father’’ of the place. He has been a member of the Town Board most of that time—the last three terms as chairman. The death occurred at the Auckland infirmary on Thursday of Captain Haromanus Copeland, one of New Zealand’s few centenarians. states a Press Association message. He celebrated his one hundredth birthday on April 4 last. He saw service in the Maori war and later traded between Auckland and Thames. Mr H. Redd away, one of the directors of Messrs F. Reddeway and Co., of Manchester, large manufacturers of textile and rubber goods, arrived in Wellington by the Marama on Monday. Mr Reddaway left England in November last, and has spent the past eleven months in touring South Africa and Australia in the interests of his firm. He intends to spend a month in the Dominion. Mr John Murray, assistant locomotive foreman, who has received notice of his transfer to Christchurch after 30 years service locally, was yesterday met by members of the locomotive staff and presented with a suit case and a pair of razors, and a travelling rug for Mrs Murray. Mr Moffitt, a member of the staff made the presentation and referred to the high regard and esteem in which the recipient had been held during his sojourn at Invercargill and voiced the best wishes of all for his future. Mr Murray suitably responded. He leaves for Christchurch next week. Rear-Admiral A. F. Beal, who recently relinquished charge of the New Zealand Naval Squadron, which he had occupied for the last three years, is travelling to London on the steamer Euripedes, which left Port Melbourne on her Homeward voyage on October 2. He had previously spent a short holiday in Tasmania. Rear-Admiral Beal visited Melbourne on H.M.S. Dunedin in October, 1924, as commander of the New Zealand Squadron. He has been appointed to an influential position in the Naval Department, England. Mrs John Garrett, who passed away on October 9, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs William Rutherford, of St. Kilda, Dunedin, at the advanced age of 80 years, was one of Otago’s pioneers. She was born in Auckland in the year 1846, and shortly after this her parents emigrated to Victoria, where, after some years, she was married to the late John. Garrett. After her marriage Mrs Garrett returned with her husband to New Zealand, residing for many years at Hinden, which was in the early days of New Zealand a very busy gold-mining centre, attracting many people from the Old Land in search of the precious metal. Being of a lovable, and genial disposition, Mrs Garrett will be missed by her many friends. She is survived by three sons and one daughter, and a number of grandchildren and great grandchildren. Her youngest son, Ernest, was killed at Messines in the great War. SHUNTING LINES FRANKTON STATION. ALTERATION IN SIGNALLING SYSTEM. (Per United Press Association.) Hamilton, October 15. Alterations are being made to the mechanical signalling system at Frankton station where the shunting lines at the northern end will be worked semi-automatically by electric motors. Sixteen motors costing approximately £lOO each are being installed. The completion is expected within several months. It is understood that the new method will be-introduced within 18 months at all stations not so equipped between Auckland and Mercer.