ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 21218, 20 October 1930, Page 8

ABOUT PEOPLE

Dr. W. Hamilton, F.R.C.S.E., of London, is at present acting as locum tenens for Dr. Trotter, of Riverton.

Mr 'George Featherstone, who attended the Anglican Church Synod at Dunedin on Friday, returned to Invercargill by the midday express on Saturday. A motion of sympathy with Miss J. C. Henderson in her recent bereavement was passed by the Southland branch of the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union on Saturday, members standing in silence.

The death occurred in the Dunedin Hospital yesterday morning of the Rev. T. W. Newbold, Methodist minister, who has occupied charges in many centres throughout the Dominion, states a Press Association telegram. Mr E. J. Parr, of Wellington, senior secondary school inspector, is at present visiting Invercargill where, in company with Miss J. .Hetherington, also of Wellington, he is conducting examinations at the Southland Girls’ High School.,

Four Southlanders who are to act as judges at the Royal Show at Hastings left for the north’ by the express on Saturday. They- are Mr A. S. Holms (Waimahaka) and Messrs S. G. Young, S. T. Evans and J. Balwin (Invercargill). Mr A. L. Adamson, secretary of the Southland Farmers’ Union, was also with the party.

Lord Stonehaven and party arrived at Rotorua from Wellington at mid-day on Saturday en route from Frankton. Lord Stonehaven inspected the dairy factory at Waharoa. In the afternoon the party visited Whakarewarewa and Fairy Springs and yesterday Lord Stonehaven visited the Government forestries and the Green and Blue Lakes and Tarawera, and in the afternoon the six lakes. Lord Stonehaven is much impressed with what he has seen, states a Press Association telegram. Miss Mavis Steadman (daughter of Mr D. D. Steadman, headmaster of the Middle School) whose athletic prowess manifested itself when she won the Southland, senior girls’ sports championship in Invercargill in both 1928 and 1929, has again distinguished herself in the same direction this year in Dunedin. Miss Steadman, who is at present a pupil at Columba College in the northern city, was successful last Friday in tieing for first place in the college senior athletic championship. In addition, she broke the school record for the long jump, her effort being 15 feet 2 inches. A pleasing function took place on Saturday morning, when the staff of the Provident Life Assurance Company assembled to make a presentation to Miss Mackie on the occasion of her approaching marriage. The superintendent, Mr M. T. Francis, in handing Miss Mackie a set of carvers as a token of the high esteem in which she was held by all, eulogized her sterling character and capabilities and paid a tribute to the harmonious relations that existed between her fellow employees and herself during the five years she had been with the company. On behalf of the staff, he wished her every happiness in the future. By the passing away, last Friday, of Mr Alexander Whiteford Anderson, at the comparatively early age of 25 years, the Kauana District loses a popular and widelyesteemed resident. The deceased, who was the youngest son of the well-known sheepfarmer, Mr R. J. Anderson, of Kauana, suffered a bad attack of influenza during the 1918 epidemic, since which time his general health had never been the same. For several years he had practically taken charge of the sheep on his father’s farm and had evidenced a thorough knowledge of sheep-farming and general farming husbandry'. Some ' nine weeks ago, he was stricken with a serious attack of rheumatic fever from which he never recovered. Over 100 motor cars formed a lengthy cortege at his funeral when the deceased was interred at Winton Cemetery yesterday. The large body of mourners from near and afar, together with very many beautiful floral emblems, bore a silent, yet eloquent, tribute to the respect in which the late Mr, Anderson had been held by all with whom he had come into contact along life’s journey. At the house, the deceased’s schoolmates of the Kauana School were the pallbearers and, at the graveside, his relatives. The Rev. John Johnston, of Dipton, performed the last rites.