ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 20664, 20 April 1929, Page 8

ABOUT PEOPLE

Messrs H. S. Y’oung and G. N. Mackie left by the Manuka on Monday for Australia and Tasmania.

Miss Ethel Smith has been appointed assistant in the Hedgehope Lower School for the relieving staff. Mr E. J. Herrick, of Hastings, who has been moose hunting at Dusky Sound, returns to the north by this morning’s express.

Mr James Halliday, of Invercargill, who is well known in business and sporting circles, leaves Invercargill on Monday for the purpose of visiting Australia.

In view of the fact that three candidates were nominated for the district seat on the Power Board, Mr C. Bennet, of Gore, has decided to retire from the contest. Mr G. O. Browne, who has been on the local telegraph staff for some time, left yesterday afternoon for Dunedin, where he takes up a similar position on promotion. Mr T. O’Byrne, secretary of the Southland Sawmill Workers’ Union, left for the Western District yesterday. He will return to Invercargill on Sunday evening. Mr J. G. L. Hewitt, S.M., who has presided in the Magistrate's Court in Invercargill since the departure of Mr G. Cruickshank, left yesterday afternoon for the north.

At a meeting of the Gore Orchestral Society on Thursday evening, Mr O. Hubener was appointed conductor in place of Mr .Inglis YV. Todd, who is leaving for Timaru.

Dr W. Aitken, Medical Officer in charge of the military sanatorium at Cashmere, has handed in his resignation, which will be considered by the North Canterbury Hospital Board at its next meeting, states a Christchurch telegram. Messrs V. Stanley (representing the first division) and F. Lindsay (representing the Railway Department), members of the Railway Appeal Board, which sat in Invercargill yesterday morning, returned to Dunedin en route to Wellington by the afternoon express yesterday.

Messrs R. A. Anderson and James Hamilton have been appointed Government representatives on the Bluff Harbour Board. Mr Anderson has been a member for a number of years, but Mr Hamilton takes his seat for the first time, replacing Mr J.- R. Hamilton, late M.P. for Awarua. Mr James Hamilton is stevedore at Bluff for the Commonwealth and Dominion line of steamers and other lines. He has been intimately connected with shipping at Bluff for the past fifteen years.

Mr W. H. Woodward, till recently Chief Judge of the High Court in Western Samoa, who has been appointed Magistrate at Invercargill in a relieving capacity, took up his duties yesterday. Our special Wellington correspondent states that the Magistrate is an Aucklander, son of the late Mr William Woodward, M.A., of Mangere, and was educated at the Auckland Grammar School and at the Auckland University College, where he graduated LL.B. He went to Samoa with the occupying expeditionary force in 1914 and was registrar and acting judge in the German District Court until 1917. He also served as a machine gunner in France. After the war he received the appointment of Commissioner of the High Court in the mandated territory of Western Samoa and in 1923 he became Chief Judge of the High Court at Apia. Two months ago Mr Woodward came to New Zealand on furlough and he is now transferred to the New Zealand Magistracy.