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Southland Times, Issue 20941, 26 November 1929, Page 6

ABOUT PEOPLE

Mr H. Green, Divisional Railway Traffic Superintendent for the South Island, is at present in Invercargill on business. Mr E. C. Smith left Gore on Saturday to attend the annual gathering of the Masonic Grand Lodge at Auckland. The Rev. Fathers Maguire and Loughnan ’eft Invercargill,for the north by yesterday's afternoon express. Mr and Mrs J. A. Edwards, of Otikerama, left by yesterday afternoon’s express for Dunedin. Mr Edwards Is to judge the Jersey cattle at the Otago A. and P. Association's annual fixture. < V The death is announced of the Rev. E. C. Budd, who, for more than 21 years, acted,’ as chaplain to the Mount Eden prison, Auckland Hospital and Mental Hospital.—• Auckland Press Association message. Commissioner Cunningham, the head ofj the Salvation Army organization in New Zealand, arrives in Invercargill on Wednesday and will be given a civic reception m the Council Chambers in the afternoon. Mr McDowell Smith, of Dunedin, who is architect for the new sugar of milk works, visited the works at Mataura yesterday in company with the general manager, Mr Sandys Winschs, and afterwards left by car for Edendale. Mr C. S. Longuet, president of the Southland League, and Messrs W. Hinchey, A. S. Russell A. E. Willett (members) and J. S. Dick (secretary), who attended the quarterly meeting of the league at Queenstown, returned to Invercargill by the 5.18 p.m. train from Gore yesterday. Mr J. H. Lascelles, head prefect at Christ’s College, has been awarded a grant of £250 annually for three years from the Rhodes Scholarship Trust to enable him to study at Oxford, says a Christchurch Press Association message. This grant, it is explained, has been given as a mark of appreciation of the services rendered by his father, Lieutenant-Colonel E. W. Lascelles, in connection with the overseas soldiers and sailors’ scholarship fund. Mr Lascelles junior has also had a good record at Christ’s College, having won the junior University scholarship for the past three years,' but on each occasion declined the scholarship which is tenable only at a New Zealanii University College. Mr Lascelles was going to England in any case. He will now probably enter Oxford next year.

Regret at the impending departure from,' New Zealand of his Excellency the Gover-i nor-General (Sir Charles Fergusson) and Lady Alice Fergusson is expressed in the annual report of the Dominion executive of the St. John Ambulance Association. “Sir Charles has taken a very personal interest in all branches of our work throughout the Dominion,” states the report. “His presence in our buildings and his addresses to our members have been very helpful and inspiring. He has taken a keen interest in the development of the work of the Order and has won the gratitude and admiration of all of our members. Her Excellency Lady Alice Fergusson has been a friend to our nursing divisions and district nursing guild, and her stay of five years amongst us has been an encouragement to all who are interested in the alleviation of sickness and distress.”