ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 21578, 16 December 1931, Page 6

ABOUT PEOPLE

Mr W. Stevenson left Invercargill for Dunedin by yesterday morning’s express. Mr E. H. J. Miller, of the literary staff of the Dominion, is spending a holiday in Invercargill.

Mr T. W. Goodger, of Motuku, Mossburn, travelled to Christchurch by yesterday’s express.

Dr A. Kidd, medical superintendent of the Waipiata Sanatorium, arrived in Invercargill by last evening’s express and is a guest at the Grand Hotel. Dunedin visitors to Invercargill who arrived yesterday and are guests at the Grand Hotel include Messrs H. R. Butterworth, John Elvidge, J. H. Stewart, R. D. Stewart and W. W. Mackersy. Results of the University examinations to hand indicate that Mr H. W. Buddle, of the relieving staff of the Southland Education Board, has been successful in completing a pass in a section of the teachers’ B certificate.

Mr A. M. Macdonald, who with Mr J. R. Haigh represented the Southland Motor Association at the quarterly meeting of the South Island Motor Union at Blenheim, on Friday, returned to Invercargill by last evening’s express.

At a meeting of the Hawkes Bay Presbytery yesterday, the Rev. Dr Dickie, principal of the Presbyterian Theological College, Dunedin, was unanimously nominated as Moderator for the General Assembly in 1933—Hastings Press Association message.

A Press Association message from Sydney announces the death of Dr. K. H. Todd at the age of 72. For 23 years he was secretary of the New South Wales branch of the British Medical Association until his retirement this year. He was formerly lecturer on medical jurisprudence at Sydney University. The Blcdisloe medal presentee! by the Governor-General for annual award to the ex-student of Lincoln College who is considered to have rendered the greatest service to the agricultural community has been awarded this year to J. M. Ramstead of Matangi, Waikato, a well-known breeder of milking Shorthorn cattle. —Christchurch Press Association message.

* Mr Edgar F. Stead, of Christchurch, Major R. Wilson, of Bulls, Rangitikei, and Mr E. Hay, of Pigeon Bay, Banks Peninsula, the three naturalists who have been studying bird life on Solomon and adjacent islands, arrived at Bluff yesterday afternoon from Pegasus. They came up to Invercargill and are at present guests at the Club Hotel. Major Wilson and Mr Hay will proceed to Dunedin by this afternoon’s express, while Mr Stead will visit Bluff today, returning to Invercargill this evening and departing for the north by to-morrow morning’s express.

Bishop Richards, who returned to Dunedin from Kaitangata on Saturady morning, has advised St. Paul’s Cathedral Chapter that the Rev. G. C. Cruickshank, M.A., has accepted the appointment as vicar of the cathedral district of Dunedin in succession to Canon E. R. Nevill, who recently resigned owing to his need of rest. Mr Cruickshank has been for eight years vicar of St. Mark’s, Remuera, Auckland. Bishop Richards was vicar of that parish for several years. He was born at Auckland, and was educated at Keble College, Oxford. His B.A. degree was gained in 1906, and the degree of M.A., was attained in due course. He attended Ely Theological College in 1907, and in the same year was ordained deacon at Durham, where he was admitted to the priesthood in the foliowin year. He held the position of curate at St. Hilda’s, Darlington, from 1907 until 1909. In the latter year he returned to New Zealand, and served for a time as home mission priest in the Auckland diocese. He was appointed vicar of Whangarei in 1910. After holding that position for three years he paid a visit to England. Returning in 1914, he was reappointed vicar of Whangarei. He was chaplain of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force from 1916 until 1919. He was wounded in France. Mr Cruickshank, who was married while in England to Miss A. K. Stephenson, of Auckland, a nursing sister with the New Zealand Forces, returned after the war to his post at Whangarei, where he remained until his appointment as vicar of St. Mark’s.