ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 20617, 16 October 1928, Page 8

ABOUT PEOPLE

Major McHugh leaves for Dunedin by this morning’s express. Lieutenant McCormack left for Gore by the express yesterday afternoon. A Christchurch telegram reports the death of Dr Joseph John Brownlie, aged 76, a well-known medical practitioner. Mr and Mrs W. Gee leave Gore by this morning’s express on a month’s holiday visit to Napier. The Rev. H. C. L. Gaut, of Winton, Jpaves for Dunedin by the express this morning to attend the Anglican Synod. Mr W. Hawke, of 4he Wallaec County Hotel, Riverton, left on Monday for the north on a business and health trip. Mr F. J. Raines, of Dunedin, arrived in Invercargill yesterday to take up the position* of transport clerk in the local railway offices. It was reported last night that Sir Charles Skerrett’s condition was still quite satisfactory.—Wellington Press Association telegram. Miss Isabella G. Wright, at present assistant teacher in the Queenstown school, has been appointed sole teacher at the Morton Mdins Siding School. Mr H. Anderson, who has been relieving at the Riverton Courthouse during Mr Mosley’s visit to outlying districts of the Wallace electorate, returned to Invercargill on Monday afternoon. The wedding of Mr C. M. Croft, Canadian Trade Commissioner, and Miss Sybil Martin, of Auckland, took place yesterday, states an Auckland Press Association message. The best man was Mr Julian B. Foster, United States Trade Commissioner. In the band room, Bluff, last evening, the members of the Bluff railway staff gathered to say farewell to Mr W. T. Adams, who is on transfer to Invercargill.. The opportunity was also taken to entertain Mr H. F. Lee on the occasion o£his marriage. Mr A. N. Seamer, who for the past three •years has been in charge of the clerical division of the Invercargill staff of the Department of Agriculture, leaves by this morning’s express for Palmerston North to take up his duties in the office of the director of the Fields Division. It is stated that Mr. F. T. Badcock, coacfi to the Wellington Cricket Association, has accepted a business appointment in Wellington, states a Press Association message. Mr. Badcock will be available for all representative matches but his loss as a coach is going to be felt severely by the young cricketers of Wellington. Mr James Moore Hickson, the worldfamous Anglican missioner of spiritual healing, who has been spending six months privately in New Zealand quietly recuperating and resting from his world wide missions (states the Lyttelton Times) now intends concentrating on smaller groups and on individuals.