ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 21073, 3 May 1930, Page 6

ABOUT PEOPLE

Mr J. Mcllwraith, of the staff of Dalgety and Company, Ltd., sailed by the lonic from Bluff yesterday on an extended trip to the Old Country.

Mr John W. Howort.h, son of Mr E. W. Howorth, of Invercargill, has been admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court by his Honour Mn Justice Kennedy.

A Christchurch Press Association message states that Mrs E. R. McCombs has been selected- as the official Labour candidate for the Christchurch North seat.

The first woman to obtain a pilot’s license in Auckland is Miss Ina M ight, of Devonport, who passed her tests at, the Mangere aerodrome yesterday morning.

Mr J. Boreham, who has been visiting friends in Invercargill since the conclusion of the Dominion draughts tournament, returned to Dimedin by the express yesterday afternoon.

Mr David Marshall, Waianiwa, who is at present confined to his bed with a rather severe illness, has had to cancel some engagements and will be unable to proceed to the quarterly meeting of the Board of Agriculture in Wellington next week. This will be the first time he has missed this meeting for a long time.

Reference to the death of Mr J. Crosby Smith was made at the meeting of the Southland Education Board yesterday. The late Mr Crosby Smith was a member of the board from 1906 to 1913 and was chairman in 1908. In moving that a letter of condolence be sent to the relatives of the deceased gentleman Mr A. W. Jones, chairman of the board, paid a warm tribute to his services in the cause of education as a member of the Education Board and High Schools Board and to his many other public activities during his residence in Invercargill. He said that the Southland Museum owed its foundation largely to Mr Crosby Smith. Mr J. C. Thomson also eulogized the many services rendered to the community by Mr Smith.

The death occurred at Hawera on Sunday of Mr S. B. Howlett, who was for many years a resident of Clinton and later of Dunedin. Mr Howlett was a son of the Rev. Samuel Howlett, chaplain of the Sandhurst Royal Military College. He was articled to a leading London legal firm, but on account of his health he came to New Zealand 49 —• ago. when he was juat 21 years of age, and took up a sheep station at Clinton. After some years he removed to Dunedin where he again took up legal work and was for a number of years managing clerk to Mr John (now Mr justice) MacGregor. Nineteen years ago he entered into partnership with Mr H. Halliwell at Hawera and continued with the firm until his death. Mr Howlett was an ardent lover of nature and it was his custom to take many long trips on foot or by bicycle. He was a keen alpinist and only’a week before his death he undertook the arduous climb to Fantham’s Peak, Mount Egmont, for the opening of the new alpine hut. lie is survived by his widow-, one daughter (Mrs Stone-Wigg, of South Canterbury) and one son, who lives in Hawera.