ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 20525, 29 June 1928, Page 6

ABOUT PEOPLE

Mr W. Ewart Crewes arrived in Invercargill by the express last evening. Mr E. Griffiths, of the Riverton Post Office, has returned from his holiday and has resumed duty.

Mr M. G. Collins, of Gore, has received word that he has been successful in passing his final pharmacy examination. Miss Dyer, inspectress of domestic science, who has been visiting Invercargill, left for Gore by the express yesterday morning. Messrs B. Ellis, Allen and Brent (all of Dunedin), members of the Southland Sawmillers’ Association, arrived in Invercargill by the express last evening. An Ottawa cable states: Dr. Louis Philip Normand, former president of the Privy Council of Canada, died at Quebec yesterday. Mr E. Douglas Taylor, Director of Music in Schools, who has been visiting Southland schools, left for the north by the night express last evening.

Prior to the departure of Mr M. Dowling from the management of the Lauriston sawmills he and Mrs Dowling were met by a party of friends and presented with a set of stainless cutlery. Mr D. Lyttle, teller of the National Bank of New Zealand, Riverton, has been trans ferred to the Gore branch, and leaves on Monday to take up his duties. Mr Dooley. Christchurch, has been appointed to the vacancy at the seaside, and has arrived and started work.

M. Jacques-Edouard Chable, a Swiss journalist, who is carrying out an extensive tour of New Zealand, is in Wellington. M. Chable is the correspondent of several newspapers, including the Journal de Geneve, Gazette de Lausanne, Der Bund (Berne), Figaro (Paris), etc.

The Teachers’ Appeal Board, consisting of Mr A. D. Thomson, S.M. (chairman), Inspector W. W. Bird (Chief Inspector for Primary Schools) and Mr Benge (representing the Education Department), sits in Invercargill this morning. The gentlemen named arrived in Invercargill by the express last evening.

Mr Arthur Lungley, baritone soloist, of Dunedin, will make his first appearance before an Invercargill audience at the Male Choir’s concert in the Municipal Theatre next Tuesday evening. Mr Lungley is considered by Dunedin musical critics to have a very promising future on the concert platform. Miss Freda Paine, dramatic soprano, of Dunedin, has been engaged to sing at the Invercargill Male Choir’s recital next Tuesday evening. Miss Paine is recognized as one of the leading soloists in the Dominion at the present time and her visit to Invercargill will no doubt be looked forward to.

A Wellington Press Association telegram states: —Dr. Buck now anthropologist of the Bishop Museum in Honolulu and Mr M. Cohen, of the Wellington Harbour Board, have been requested by the Government to represent New Zealand at the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the landing in Hawaii of Captain Cook Mr Cohen will be leaving on July 3 to spend the rest of the winter in Honolulu.

Captain J. W. Nicholson, aged 80, father of George Nicholson, the 1905 All Black, is dead. He arrived from England in 1863. After spending many years in the Island trade, Captain Nicholson (says an Auck land message), was for some time running in the coastal trade for the Northern Steamship Co. Later he was on the Hinemoa and left the sea in 1909 to join the Customs Department. The Rev. Raymond Preston, a native of Yorkshire, who was for 25 years a connexional evangelist in connection with British Wesleyan Methodism and has been in a similar capacity in New South Wales for the last 15 years and has just retired from the active ministry, arrived in Invercargill by the express from Christchurch last evening. Mr Preston is on a visit to Bluff and will be a guest of the Rev. M. Ayrton. On Friday night a welcome will be tendered to him by a number of local friends of the Methodist Church, and the Mayor, Dr. Torrance, will be present, also representatives of other churches.

Another retirement of a prominent Civil servant is announced, that of Mr F. S. Pope, Assistant Director of Agriculture, and previously Secretary of the Department of Agriculture. Mr Pope, who is retiring at the year’s end, will have passed both the age limit and the service limit within a few months. He is a son of the late Mr H. Pope, who founded the Dominion’s system of Native education, and was for years inspector of Maori schools, and he belongs to a well-known Wellington family. —Special correspondent of the Dunedin Evening Star.

The Christchurch correspondent of the Dunedin Evening Star telegraphs that the death is announced from New Plymouth of Mr J. C. Lord, who was injured in a service car accident last Wednesday. Mr Lord, who was well-known in lawn tennis circles throughout the Dominion, was sixty years of age. He commenced business life with the New Zealand Farmers’ Co-operative Association, then joined H. Quane and Co. twenty years ago. He was in their employ at the time of his death. Mr Lord was a well-known and popular figure throughout New Zealand. He took a keen interest in all branches of sport; was vice-president of the Avonside Tennis Club, a member of the Heathcote Tennis Club, a member of (he New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club, and did good service for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. He took an active part in the affairs ol the Commercial Travellers’ and Warehousemen’s Association, held office in the Canterbury Masonic Lodge, and was a mem her of the committee of the Christchurch Musical and Elocutionary Competitions Society. Mr Lord is survived by the widow (who is also well-known in tennis circles) and several brothers.