ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 21606, 19 January 1932, Page 4

ABOUT PEOPLE

Colonel Clark, of Melbourne, arrived ift Invercargill by the express last evening. The Rev. A. M. Costain and Mrs Costain, Gore, left for Riverton yesterday afternoon.

Mr F. Collier, accompanied by Mrs Collier, has returned from a business trip to Kurow.

Mr R. G. Alington returned to Invercargill on Sunday after spending a holiday in Canterbury. Mr J. Murray, of New Plymouth, representing Messrs Joseph Nathan and Co., is at present on a short visit to Invercargill.

Mr J. F. Lillicrap, who has been revisiting Invercargill, where he was formerly in business, for the past few weeks, leaves to-day for his home in Palmerston North.

Mr G. A. Miles, M.A., of the Wairarapa High School staff, has been appointed to the staff of Nelson College as full-timo commercial master. The appointment has been made as a result of the combination of the Colleges and Technical School. Mr M. W. Horton, who has been for some years in New York, will be returning to New Zealand next month. Mr Horton was a member of the Council of the New Zealand Golf Association for several years up to the time of his departure for America.

Sir Henry Wigram, New Zealand’s foremost patron of aviation, celebrated his 75th birthdaj' yesterday. Sir Henry began his advocacy of the use of aircraft for Dominion defence as early as 1909. Since then he has made many munificent gifts to the Government, including one of £lO,OOO, to assist in the purchase of tho present Wigram Aerodrome. A few days ago he presented the Government with Plumpton Park to increase the area of the aerodrome at Sockburn. Sir Henry was Mayor of Christchurch from 1902 to 1904, and is the present patron of the Canterbury Aero Club.

A visitor to Lumsden is Mr T. L. Lan- - easter, M.Sc., F.L.S., lecturer in botany at Auckland University College. Mr Lancaster will spend a few days at Paradise, Lake Wakatipu, with Dr. Holloway, of Otago University, returning to' Lumsden, and accompanied by Mrs Lancaster, will make tho Milford Sound trip. Mr and Mrs Lancaster recently returned from an extended tour of Great Britain, Ireland and South Africa, where Mr Lancaster made an intensive study of the flora peculiar to those countries. During their stay in Lumsden, Mr and Mrs Lancaster will be the guests of Mrs H. Dagg. Flying Officer Alan Binley, who has been spending portion of his leave in Blenheim and the Sounds, left Blenheim last week for Wellington. He is en route to Auckland, whence he leaves by the Niagara on the 26th to rejoin his R.A.F. unit . at Amman, Transjordania. Last week Flying Officer Binley had an interesting experience—his first flight in his native country, when he took one of the Marlborough Aero Club’s Moths aloft. Although he has, of course, done a great amount of flying since joining the R.A.F.j it was the first occasion upon which he had handled an aeroplane in New Zealand, and he was deeply interested to study his home town from the air.

The death of Mr Huntly John Harry Eliott has removed a resident of Christchurch who was well known in shipping and commercial circles. He was the eldest son of Mr H. J. H. Eliott, at one time Under-Secretary for Lands and later Undersecretary for Mines, and was born at Wellington. As a youth of seventeen he entered the service of the New Zealand Shipping Company at Wellington, and held different positions, rising to be manager of the Christchurch branch. He retired in 1927 on superannuation after forty-three years’ service with the company. For several, years Mr Eliott was a member of the council of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce. He married Miss Laura Kennedy, daughter of Captain Kennedy, formerly of the Union Steam Ship Company, and once well known as the master of the Rotomahana. In addition to his widow he is survived by one son (Huntly Eliott) and two daughters. Two brothers (Mr Gordon Eliott, at one time M.P. for Oroua, and Mr George Eliott, Auckland) and four sisters (Mrs Bucholz, Mrs Stanley Wheeler, both of Wellington, Mrs Guy Groves, Masterton, and Mrs Frank Murison, Auckland) also survive him.