ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 21652, 14 March 1932, Page 4

ABOUT PEOPLE

The Hon. J. A. Hanan travelled to Dunedin by Saturday morning's express. Mr 11. A. Anderson, C.M.G., left Invercargill by tho nxpretW hist evening on his way to Wellington.

Mr A. J, Ridler, of the Public Works Department, who has completed his inspecting four of Dingo and Southland, left by .Saturday's express for Christchurch. A London cablegram states that a former ex -inember of the House of Commons, Mr Ebenezer Edwards, succeeds Mr A. J. Cook ns General Secretary of the Miners’ Federatioji.

The deafli occurred suddenly at the Khandallah bowling green on Saturday afternoon of Mr Archibald Dougall, the sole proprietor of the engineering firm of Messrs Dougall, Combs and Co., Ltd. and a well known citizen of Wellington, states a Press Association telegram. As a mark of esteem,, and in honour or his approaching marriage, Mr H. S. Cumberworth, of the local staff of the A.M.P. Society, was presented on Saturday morning with a piece of plate by the district manager, Mr W. R. J. Smythe, who expressed the good wishes of the indoor and outdoor staffs.

The first, cricket eleven and also a team of boys under fifteen from the Southland Boys’'High School under the control of Mr S. Allen left Invercargill by last evening’s express for Dunedin. There they will play teams from the Otago Boys’ High School and return home to-morrow evening.

Captain E. W. Ballantine, who toured Australia and New Zealand with the South African cricket team in the interests of the Exchange Telegraph Company’s London cable service, was in Invercargill for the week-end. lie leaves this morning for Queenstown and then on to Mt. Cook. On his return he proposes to make a trip to the Glaciers and Nelson.. Captain Ballantine, who has reported his 91st lest match, will remain in Queensland and New South Wales, and connect with the English cricket team at Fremantle in October, and so get nearer his "century” of tests. The death has occurred of Mr Samuel Rosevcare, one of the oldest and most highly esteemed residents of Glenroy,’ Canterbury. Mr Rosevcare, who was 75 years of age, was born in Devonshire, England, in 1856, and came out to New Zealand at the age of 17 to join his brothers m Otago, later taking up farming on his own account in the Clinton district. In 1887 he married Miss E. Ridgen, of Greendale, and from Clinton. Mr and Mrs Rosevcare went to Greendale in 1892, and eventually settled at “Rockwood,” where he resided until the time of his death. Mr Roseveare was a staunch supporter of the Methodist Church, and he took a keen interest, in social and church activities. He is survived by his wife, four daughters and four sons.