ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 20793, 6 June 1929, Page 6

ABOUT PEOPLE

Mr. T. Bragg, of Halfmoon Bay, Stewart Island, was a passenger to Bluff yesterday by the ferry steamer. He proceeded to Invercargill in the evening. Mr. William J. Barr, at present on the relieving staff of the Otago Education Board, has been appointed sole teacher at the Slope Point School. Mr. Adam Hamilton, M.P., leaves Invercargill by this morning’s express for Wellington to attend a meeting of the Meat Board. He expects to return on Saturday night. At the annual meeting of the Otago A. and P. Society, Mr 11. C. Campbell was elected president and Mr William Gardiner (Oamaru) an honorary life-mem-ber. In the recent examination under the Electrical Wiremen’s' Registration Act, 1925 L. R. Christie and A. G. Clement, of Invercargill, passed in the written part and L. R. Christie, B. T. Crofts and B. O. Hannah in the practical part. Tire death of Mr Charles Carter, the wellknown tenor singer, is reported from England. The late Mr Carter was principal tenor in Pollard’s Opera Company in New Zealand many years ago, after which he went to England arid the Continent .for study. Later he was principal tenor of the Moody-Manners Grand Opera Company for several years, until an affection of the throat compelled him to give up the profession. By the death of Mr Edwin William Hardy at Kurow, in his eighty-fifth year, Otago has lost one of its early -pioneers. The deceased was born in Uxbridge, Middlesex, England, and came to New Zealand as a boy of eight years, receiving his education in Dunedin. As a young man he was associated with Gabriel Read, the discoverer of the rich goldfield known as Gabriel’s Gully, but afterwards settled in Oamaru as an architect. Later on he went to Kurow, where he had resided ever since. He is survived by a widow, three sons, and two daughters. A Chrstchurch telegram records the death of Mr. Philip Arthur Keddell, formerly registrar of pensions at Christchurch. He was a son of the late Major Jackson Keddell, who was one, of New Zealand’s early magistrates. In the course of his long service on the bench he was stationed at Greymouth, Oamarti, Invercargill and Central Otago, where he was also warden of the goldfields. Mr P. A. Keddell served as an officer in the Boer War and was severely injured. He also served in the Great War as a major in the Canterbury regiment and once again his health suffered severely. He was widely known by the members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force who passed through base camp at Etaples. At the conclusion of the war he became registrar of pensions at Christchurch, a position which he held until illhealth forced him to resign. For some months he had been very seriously ill and his death was not unexpected. The deceased, who was a half-brother of Mr. G. St. V. Keddell and the late Mr. G. P. Keddell, of Invercargill, had not a few friends in Southland. He was a most versatile entertainer, a >fact which will be recalled by many returned soldiers. His widow and two young children survive.