ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 20567, 17 August 1928, Page 6

ABOUT PEOPLE

Mr J. Pickard, district traffic manager, returned to Invercargill by the first express yesterday morning. Mr. A. Tilley (manager) and members of the Auckland Rugby team were passengers by the through express to Lyttelton yesterday.

Sir Joseph Ward, who is on his way back to the Dominion after a viqit to England, is expected to leave Vancouver on the 22nd inst. by the Aorangi. Mr. Alexander Sutherland, who has been judging the dancing sections at the Oamaru Competitions, returned to Invercargill by the first express yesterday morning. Messrs S. Batcheler, J. Howden, and R. Bird, Southland Rugby representatives, left by last evening’s express to take part in the inter-island game at Christchurch to be played to-morrow. Miss A. Gilfedder left by yesterday morning’s express for Oamaru. She accompanied two teams from the local Convent to play matches against the Teschemakers’ Convent to-day. The teams will return to-morrow night. A Wellington Press Association telegram states that a cable message received there yesterday conveys news of the death of David F. Wilbur, the former United States Consul-General for New Zealand, at Oneonta, New York, at the age of 69 years.

Cable advice was received in Wellington on Monday stating that Dr. Van der Leeuw, Leyden University, Holland, who recently conducted a lecturing tour through New Zealand, is now in hospital in Sydney suffering from typhoid fever, but is reported to be recovering. A Wellington report states that A. D. S. Duncan, the noted New Zealand golfer, will leave for Australia to-day. He intends to gel tn some practice before taking part in the Australian golf championships, which commence on September 6. He will be accompanied on the trip by Messrs K. D. Duncan and J. B. Mac Ewan.

Messrs J. Matheson (chairman), T. Pryde (secretary), J. McDougall, H. E. Niven, T. Rhodes and C. Robertson, members of the Southland Hospital Board, paid an official visit to the Gore Hospital yesterday. The members had a general look round the buildings, and will probably recommend a site for the proposed isolation ward at the hospital. Mr H. E. Stephens, who went to England last September to act as the representative of the New Zealand Fruit Control Board in London, has been offered the appointment for a further period of two years (says a Wellington Press Association message). In the opinion of the board, he has grasped the market conditions in Great Britain. He has been asked to visit the Continental centres for the purpose of investigating the market conditions for Dominion fruit, and he expects to complete this work and leave for New Zealand about the end of September.

The death is announced of Mrs A. E. Kemp, relict of the late Mr Alfred Kemp, of Gore. The deceased lady had been in failing health for some time, and during the past few months had been confined to her house. She was the second daughter oi the late Mr and Mrs Curie, of Wyndham, and married Mr Kemp in September, 1896. Mr Kemp passed away in June, 1926. The family consisted of one son, Harrison Kemp, who lost his life at sea through influenza while proceeding to take part in the Great War. Mra Kemp was a very estimable lady, being possessed of a kindly disposition and one who was always ready to give a helping hand in time of sickness. She leaves two sisters and three brothers, all resident in the North Island, to mourn their loss. The funeral will take place to-day at 1.30 p.m.

Mrs Janet Hislop, who passed away at her son’s residence in Young street, St. Kilda, on Tuesday morning, w’as one of the steadily-diminishing band of old identities of Otago, states the Evening Star. She was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, in 1850, and with her parents, Mr and Mrs Arthur Renwick, came to Dunedin in the ship Strathallan in 1857. Mr Renwick took up a farm on Saddle Hill, and it was there that, about twelve years ago, the subject of this notice was married to Mr Andrew Hislop. Subsequently Mr and Mrs Hislop resided at North Taieri and at Stirling. Mr Hislop died twelve years ago, and Mrs Hislop resided in the old home until a few months ago, when she was taken ill and came in to Dunedin to live with her son in St. Kilda. The deceased lady was loved and respected by a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. The members of the family alive are: Mr James Hislop (late Under-secretary of the Internal Affairs Department, Wellington), Mr Arthur Hislop, of Dunedin, and Mr Andrew Hislop, of Benhar.

Yesterday it was announced from Auckland that Mr C. R. Chapman died there suddenly, states the Evening Star. At one time and another Mr Chapman was much in view of the public in Dunedin, and was made mayor in 1891-92. He was an Edinburgh man, born in 1847, son of Mr Robert Chapman, who came out to Otago with his family (including Charles Robert) by the ship Blundell in 1848. Ho was educated at the school which was originally the first church in Dunedin, subsequently studied at the Boys’ High School, of which he was one of the first scholars, In 1866 he was articled to Mr James Macassey (father of Mr Percy Macassey, Mr E. L. Macassey, and Mr J. E. Macassey), and after a while went to the office of Mr E. P. Kenyon to complete his articles. He established a practice of his own in 1873, soon after being admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court. In November of 1888 he stood for the Dunedin mayoralty, and was defeated by Mr Hugh Gourley by 189 votes. In December of 1890 he was elected to the City Council as a member for Bell Ward, and was made mayor the following year. One of his leading activities was to procure from Andrew Carnegie the cost of the Dunedin Public Library Building. He also interested himself in his father’s project of giving the Thomas Burns Monument to the city.