ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 20112, 24 February 1927, Page 8

ABOUT PEOPLE

Miss Phyllis J. Sutton has been advised that she has passed the final section of her BSc. degree, Otago University. Mr A. H. Cockayne, Director of the Fields Division of the Department of Agriculture, is at present staying at the Club Hotel. Dr and Mrs Wishart. who are at present on a tour of New Zealand, arrived in Invercargill from Lake Te Anau last evening.

The New Zealand Gazette announces that Mr William Dryburgh Wallace has been appointed Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the district of Awarua, in place of Mr G. E. PoUock.

The appointment of the following gentlemen to the Tuatapere Domain Board is gazetted—Messrs F. Curow, T. J. Henderson, C. R. Mazengarb, G. McLeod, R. Scott, S. A. Walker, and T. Ward. Lieutenants C. J. R. Price, 2nd C Battalion; A. C. Rowe, Ist Battalion; and J. G. Johnston, Ist C Battalion; all of the Southland Regiment, have been appointed to the rank of Captain, according to the latest issue of the New Zealand Gazette. Miss Ella Hamilton, who /leaves Gore next week to go into training for the work of the Salvation Army, was on Tuesday made the recipient of a book from the members of the local W.C.T.U. The presentation was made by Mrs E. C. Smith l president), who expressed the best wishes of all the members for Miss Hamilton’s

success in the w’ork to which she has placed her hand. Miss Hamilton feelingly and gratefully responded.

Major Cecil Paddon, formerly well-known in Southland, is at present an officer on board the s.s. Anglo-Colombian, which is due at Bluff this morning en route for London. Major Paddon came out with the seventh squadron of the Otago Mounted Regiment in the early stages of Gallipoli, and was dangerously wounded in leading his men on the attack on Sadi Bair in August, 1914. Since the war his home has been in Beaulieu, Hants. A number of Major Paddon’s old comrades intend welcoming him at Bluff to-day.

At the meeting of the committee of the Gore Returned Soldiers’ Association on Tuesday evening, Mr E. R. Bowler was presented with a bronze smoker’s stand as a mark of appreciation of his services to the Association. Mr Bowler was the first president of the Association, filling that office from 1917 to 1921, and also was one of the leaders in the formation of the Association. Mr A. H. W. Aitken, president, made the presentation, and in expressing the appreciation of the members towards Mr Bowler, stated that the success of the Association had in a large measure been due to his services.

Members of the Southland Referees’ Association gathered in the committee room at Rugby Park last evening to bid farewell to Mr J. O’Donnell, a former member, who is removing to Dunedin. Among those present were Messrs D. Stott, W. Duncan and T. McCarroll, representing the Southland Rugby Football Union. During the evening appropriate toasts were honoured and reference was made to the loss that the game would suffer through Mr O’Donnell’s removal from Southland. A handsome present was subsequently made to Mr O’Donnell in recognition of his services as a member of the Association.