ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 21773, 30 July 1932, Page 4

ABOUT PEOPLE

Mr M. Miller leaves by this morning’s express for the north.

Mr and Mrs R. W. Hawke, of Taranaki, are at present visiting Gore.

Mr James Cameron was a passenger for the north by the express yesterday afternoon.

Mr T. Portis, of Oamaru, who has been visiting Invercargill, returned north by yesterday’s express. Mr T. C. Roughan, of the Winton staff of the Railway Department, who has been transferred to Christchurch, will leave for the latter city to-day. At the New Zealand clay bird shooting championship to be held in Christchurch next week Southland will _ be represented by Messrs R. McEwing, Taramoa, and G. V. Edge, Bluff. The West Australian reports that Mr P. A. de la Perrelle, M.P. for Awarua, and former Minister of Internal Affairs, who lately visited Perth, called on the acting-Premier (Mr C. G. Latham) and discussed the question of developing trade between New Zealand and Western Australia.

Among the New Zealand candidates who were successful at the primary examination for the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, which was held from June 7 to Juno 18 were Drs. J. J. Brownlee, E. V. Maxwell, S. B. Morris and H. K. Pacey, graduates of the Otago Medical School. Of 202 candidates, 67 were approved and 135 rejected.

Dr. F. Plimmer Furkert, son of Mr F. W. Furkert, engineer-in-chief of the Public Works Department, left for England by the Karamea on Monday to undertake a post-graduate course, Dr. Furkert, who is a Wellington Col--lege old boy, received his medical training at the University of Otago. Later he became one of the house stair at the Wellington Hospital. He subsequently went into private practice in North Canterbury, and for the last six months has been house surgeon at the Napier Hospital. Well-known for many years as the master of overseas liners which visited New Zealand, Captain Donald Macmillan, whose last command was that of the Cumberland, died of heart failure at Bowmore, Isley, Argylshire, on June 12. Captain Macmillan came of seafaring stock and went to sea as a boy. During the war he was first officer on the Shropshire, which is now the Rotorua, and for years was in command of the Opawa in the Home trade. He took command of the Cumberland in 1927. Captain Macmillan retired from.the sea on account of ill-health, and was in the early ’fifties at the time of his death. His widow survives him. Mr James Leslie Wight, country traveller for Hogg and Company, timber merchants, passed away suddenly at Dunedin on Sunday morning. He played a round of golf on the Balmacewen links on Saturday afternoon, being apparently in his usual; sound health, but fell i-1 ®m, the evening and did not recover. The death was attributed to a natural cause. He came to New Zealand from Inverness nine years ago, when nearly thirty years of age, and by his business ability and his companiable personality made hosts of friends in Otago and Southland. The Commercial Travellers’ Club will miss him. He had a good record even before coming to Otago. He served with distinction with the King’s Royal Rifle Corps during the Great War, being awarded the Military Medal and mentioned in despatches for his services on the Somme. He later qualified for a commission in the Royal Air Force, and served as a pilot with this unit during the later stages of the war. He is survived by his widow and one son. Mr W. G. Wight, of the South Island Dairy Association, is his brother.