ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 21835, 12 October 1932, Page 6

ABOUT PEOPLE

Sir William Hunt travelled by yes-* terdav’s express on his way to Wellington.

Mr D. McDougall, M.P., left Gore by yesterday morning’s express for Wellington.

Mr A. T. Newman, Mayor, of Gore, was a passenger by yesterday’s express for Dunedin.

Mr R. A. Anderson, C.M.G., returned to Invercargill from the north by last evening’s express. Mr J. S. Little, of Dunedin, arrived in Invercargill by car last evening and is a guest at the Grand Hotel.

Mr F. W. Barker, of Wellington, arrived in Invercargill by car last evening. He is staying at the Grand Hotel. Mr W. J. A. McGregor, of Mount Linton, who has been visiting Dunedin, returned to Invercargill by the express last evening.

Mr J. D. Spedding, of Sydney, arrived in Invercargill by last evening’s express and is staying at the Grand Hotel.

A British Official Wireless message states that Mr Winston Churchill’s progress is satisfactory and he was moved from the nursing home on Monday. A Press Association message from London states that Viscount (General) Byng has been appointed a field-marshal in succession to the late Viscount Plumer.

Messrs J. Robertson, president of the Southland Acclimatization Society, and E. Russell, member of the council, left for Wellington by yesterday’s express to attend the annual conference of the Acclimatization Societies of the Dominion.

The death occurred yesterday afternoon at Gisborne of Mr A. M. Beale, a well known business man of the East Coast district and manager of the Waipiro Bay Trading Company. He was aged 74 years. Deceased was a keen cricket enthusiast and was president of the Waiapu Cricket Association. A grandfather clock was presented at the annual conference of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation, held at Wellington, to Mr G. W. Reid, of Dunedin, who represented the federation at the Ottawa Conference. In making the presentation, the president, Mr F. Campbell, eulogized Mr Reid’s services in the interests of New Zealand manufacturers, and said that they could not have had a better representative.

A farewell social and dance tendered to Colonel T. W. McDonald, ex-M.P. for Wairarapa, and Mrs McDonald, at Carterton, on Monday night, was very largely attended, people of all shades of political colour being present from all parts of the electorate. The Mayor of Carterton (Mr W. Fisher) presided, and expressed regret at their departure The Mayor of Featherston (Mr J. W. Card) presented Colonel McDonald with a handsome cheque. Colonel McDonald, in reply, stated that, though he was going to Wellington to resume business, he was prepared to contest the Wairarapa seat next election, if invited. A high tribute was paid to Colonel McDonald’s good work for the district.—Press Association.

The death occurred at Los Angeles on September 28 of Commissioner H. C. Hodder, 0.8. E., who was in charge of Salvation Army work in New Zealand from 1914 to 1922. He had been living in retirement for about six years owing to ill health. Commissioner Hodder w’as responsible for notable work in New Zealand at the head of Salvation Army activities during the period of the war and repatriation. He organized the Salvation Army Institutes in the New Zealand military camps in the Dominion and in England, Egypt and France, and in many ways was personally responsible for the provision of comforts for the troops. At the close of the war he received the Order of the British Empire. After leaving New Zealand in 1922, Commissioner Hodder took charge of the Salvation Army work in Canada, but a breakdown in health necessitated his retirement. He is survived by his wife and six children, all of whom.live in the United States, with the exception of one daughter, Mrs H. N. Toomer, of Nelson.

The death occurred in a Palmerston North private hospital last week of Mr William David Brown Murray, of Chaytor street, Palmerston North, at the age of 88 years. Mr Murray served his cadetship in the survey office of Messrs James Young and Son, Perth, and, after serving as an engineer with a Glasgow firm, came to the Dominion in 1863. He received an appointment as assistant engineer in the road engineer’s department, Otago, but resigned from this appointment to become a surveyor and attorney in Invercargill for the late Surveyor-Gen-eral, Mr I. T. Thomson, who held a large holding of unsurveyed land. Toward the end of the sixties all the staff surveyors were paid by the provincial Government, which was in a state of bankruptcy, and Mi’ Murray then took up mining and later a cattle venture which proved to be a failure. In 1874 he received an appointment on the Otago survey staff, and continued in the service until he was superannuated in 1909. Before being superannuated Mr Murray was chief draughtsman in Nelson for three years, acted as chief surveyor and commissioner for eight months, and held the position of chief draughtsman in the head office of the department in Wellington.