ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 20528, 3 July 1928, Page 6

ABOUT PEOPLE

The appointment of Mr Cecil Alfred Sutton, Waikaia, as a Justice of the Peace is gazetted. Messrs John Heenan Sorensen and Edward James Weir have been appointed trustees of the Orepuki Public Cemetery. Mr and Mrs A. E. Willett, “Yatton,” South Riverton, leave this morning on a two months’ visit to Auckland.

Miss Winton, of the Education Department, has taken over control of Riverton Dental Clinic, which opened yesterday morning.

Miss Meda Paine, dramatic soprano, who will be a soloist at the Male Choir concert this evening, arrived in Invercargill by the mid-day express yesterday. Mr W.. Bulman, postmaster at Oturehua, Otago Central, who met with an injury to his arm, is convalescing at Riverton and is staying with his people. The Rev. L. A. Day (Gore) has received and accepted a call to the Whangarei Baptist Church. He will leave about the end of August to take over his new charge. Mr E. Phillips Turner, secretary of the Forestry Department, has been appointed Director of Forestry in succession to Mr L. M. Ellis.—Wellington Press Association message.

The two Rhodes’ scholars, Mr J. PlattsMills, of Victoria College, and Mr A. Sharp, of Otago University, will .leave Wellington by the Marama next Friday for Oxford University.

Mr Justice Smith has been appointed to act on the second division of the Court of Appeal in place of the Chief Justice, Sir Charles Skerrett, who is unable to carry out the duties owing to indisposition.

Mr D. Fleming, stock inspector of the Agricultural Department, Palmerston North, retired on superannuation last week, after 35 years’ service, 21 of which have been spent in Palmerston North.

The Rev. S. Henderson, formerly of Cambridge Terrace Methodist Church, Christchurch, has accepted a unanimous invitation to succeed the Rev. C. Blair as superintendent of the Rangiora circuit next year. Messrs C. C. Jennings and J. Butler, who have been attending the recent dental conference at Wellington which concluded on Saturday afternoon, returned to Invercargill by the 11 o’clock express yesterday morning.

The appointment of the following persons as trustees of public cemeteries has been gazetted:—Mr William Johnston, Wangaloa; Mr Henry Wilson, Otokia; Mr Horace W. Scott, Waimate; and Messrs J. H. Sorensen and E. J. Weir, Orepuki. Mr J. Caijou, rector of the Riverton High School, has taken up his duties. Yesterday he was met by Mr J. A. Martin, representing the Progressive League, and Messrs L. R. Jordan and W. A. Scobie (the school committee) and welcomed to the seaside town. Word was received at a late hour last evening of the death of an old Invercargill resident in the person of Mr George Dobbie Macindoe, analytical chemist. The late Mr Macindoe was extensively associated with church matters, being an elder of First Church for some considerable time and was also an ardent worker in the Prohibition movement.

The days when a Government revenue sailing ship was maintained to prevent smuggling along the coast are within the service memory of Mr A. V. Penn, Collector of Customs at Auckland, whose retirement after forty-four years’ service with the Department took effect on Saturday. In 1881 Mr Penn arrived in Taranaki from England with his parents. Three years later he joined the Customs Department. After four years in Auckland he was transferred south, and spent twenty years at various ports in the South and lower half of the North Island. In 1909 he returned to Auckland as landing surveyor, and in that capacity and as sub-collector he served until November, 1925, when he succeeded Mr J. Ridings as collector at Auckland. Mr Penn was met on Thursday by representatives of the Customhouse agents of Auckland and presented with a silver tea and coffee service for Mrs Penn and a travelling trunk and rug for himself.