ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 21650, 11 March 1932, Page 6

ABOUT PEOPLE

Mr R. Tinker returned to Invercargill by the express last evening. Miss Marjorie A. Grenfell, formerly of the Clifton School, has been appointed solo teacher at Kapuka. Mr A. Hagerty, of the Winton Post Office, returned to Winton on Wednesday after spending his annual leave at Dunedin.

Mr James Malloy, of the staff of the Winton Post Office, is at present relieving postmaster at Woodlands, where he will remain for a month. A Nelson Press Association message announces the death of Dr. W. J. Mackay, agerl 83, for many years a well-known and respected medical practitioner. Bishop Richards yesterday began a pastoral visitation in Southland. Important duties on the tour will be the consecration of new churches at Waikawa and Ryal Bush.

Word has been received that Mr John R. Hawcridge, of the city engineer’s office, has been awarded the Bayliss prize for highest place in the recent associate membership examination of the Institution of Civil Engineers, London. At last night's annual meeting of the Southland Boxing Association, Mr S. A. Lindsay, the retiring chairman, who had held office for the laft five years, was unanimously elected a life member of that body, power being granted him to act on the executive committee.

A Press Association message from Sydney states that Sir Samuel Hordern has been elected chairman of the Australian Mutual Provident Society and Mr Alexander Jobson deputy chairman. Mr J. O. Meeks was appointed a director to the vacancy caused by the death of the late chairman, Sir Alfred Meeks.

Mrs J. Woodhead, who died at her residence, Herne Bay, aged 87 years, arrived in Wellington with her husband and three children in the sailing ship Maraval, in 1880. They went on to Auckland, and then became pioneer settlers at Te Aroha West, where, while a house was being built, they lived in a tent for three months during the winter. Later they returned to Auckland and lived in Jervois Road. Mr Woodhead died in 1926, aged 89 years. He was an engineer by profession, and was engaged at Panama when Ferdinand de Ijcsseps' canal scheme failed. The surviving members of the family are Mr J. W. Woodhead, now in Sydney, Mr F. B. Woodhead, Mrs G. A. Bcttanv, and Mrs F. S. Butler.