ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 21853, 2 November 1932, Page 6

ABOUT PEOPLE

MINISTERIAL. The Hon. G. W. Forbes will leave for Palmerston North, to-day to attend the opening of the local show. He will be accompanied by the Hon. C. E. Macmillan and will return to Wellington in the evening. The Hon. J. G. Coates will return to Wellington to-day.—■ Wellington Press Association message. Mr J. A. Stcwai-t, Ocean Beach, left yesterday to spend a holiday in Christchurch. Mi - Carlton Max, who has been managing the Theatre Royal at Christchurch for Messrs J. C. Williamson Picture Corporation, Limited, has been transferred to Auckland. Mr J. T. Carswell, of Invercargill, was elected a member of the committee of the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand at the first annual conference held in Auckland last week. Mr A. Tyndall, engineer to the Main Highways Board, has informed the Southland Motoi’ Association that he hopes to be in Invercargill on the evening of Wednesday, November 9. Lieutenant S. G. Humphrys, of Brigade headquarters, Wana, Waziristan, India, is on furlough in New Zealand visiting relatives, and before returning proposes to visit Rotorua, National Park, and Queenstown. Mr R. Hanning, of Dunedin, has been appointed to fill the vacancy on the council of the New Zealand Bowling Association caused by the death of Mr A. J. Sullivan, of Dunedin. Mr Hanning has been secretary of the Dunedin Centre for 21 years. Mr William Carson has been appointed a membci - of the Board of Examiners under the Coal Mines Act,, states a Gazette notice. Messrs J. L. Gilmour, M. Paul, and J. R. Noble have been appointed members of the Board of Examiners under the Mining Act, 1926. Mi - O. H. Gillon, purser of the Maunganui, was taken seriously ill on Saturday week last while the vessel was bound from Auckland to Sydney, and was taken to hospital on arrival of the ship in Sydney. Mi - Gillon, who is well known to New Zealand travellers, has served at sea as purser for the record period of 43 years. He was appointed pursei - in 1889. For practically the whole of this time he has served in the Union Company’s intercolonial passenger steamers, in which he has travelled some 2,000,000 miles and crossed the Tasman upwards of 2000 times. The death occurred on Monday evening at Wellington of Mrs Gibb, the wife of the Rev. Di - Gibb. The late Mrs Gibb married the Rev. Dr Gibb in Scotland in 1882, the year in which he left the Old Country to take up an appointment under commission to the Presbyterian Church of Victoria. She is survived by her husband, two sons (the Rev. George Gibb, London, and the Rev. M. C. Gibb, Sydney), and three daughters. Mrs Gibb was a sister of the Rev. J. Gibson-Smith, and the Rev. J. Gibson-Smith married a sister of the Rev. Di - Gibb. The lady whose decease is now announced, though never aspiring to leadership in church matters, well understood the duty of a minister’s wife, and in hexquiet way her work was much appreciated during Mr Gibb’s service in Dunedin. On account of ill-health, Mr H. W. Kelly, the Auckland manager of the New Zealand Insurance Company, will shortly retire, and will be succeeded b} Mr T. C. Buddle, now manager in India. Mi - Kelly has been with the company for 43 years. He was born at Mangonui, North Auckland, in 1874. He was in the Wellington office for several years, and in 1911 was appointed manager of the Wanganui bi’anch. In 1920 he was transferred to Dunedin as manager, and in 1923 was appointed manager at Melbourne and also controlling officer for the company in Australia. He was appointed the Auckland manager in 1930 in succession to Mr H. M. Didsbury. Mr Kelly played 54 representative games fox - Wellington, mostly as a five-eighth. Mr Buddle, at present in Calcutta, is the son of Mrs Thomas Buddle, of Auckland. He was formerly in the Auckland office, and was later transferred to Christchurch. He joined the company's offices in India 24 years ago.

Mr Peter Mclntyre, who died at his house at Waikari, Dunedin, on Friday, was born at Doune, Perth, Scotland, in 1862, and was educated at the Highland Society’s School in Glasgow. He arrived in Dunedin in 1879, in the ship Oamaru. Mr Mclntyre started work in Glasgow in the lithographing trade, and he followed this occupation on his arrival in New Zealand, finding employment with various. Dunedin firms and later becoming one of the founders of the Caxton Printing and Lithographing Company, which was established in Manse street, Dunedin. His work with this firm as a lithographic artist was of conspicuous merit, and it attracted wide interest. He was responsible for the first coloured lithograph produced in New Zealand about 45 years ago, long before the introduction of the three-colour process of later days. The posters done by the same process for theatrical companies became known all over Australia and New Zealand. In the earlier days, when cartoons were popular as political propaganda, Mr Mclntyre achieved a reputation as a clever and versatile ai-tist, and many specimens of his work are preserved in the museum of the Otago Early Settlers’ Association. On the dissolution of the Caxton Company in 1917, haj commenced business as a commercial artist. He joined the Otago Daily Times and Witness Newspapers Company in 1919 as the firm’s artist, and remained in its employ until his last illness.

The death occurred at his residence, Sumner, on Monday evening, of the Rev. Robert Middleton Ryburn, Presbyterian minister, well known throughout New Zealand fox - his work on behalf of the youth of the church. Mr Ryburn was 67 years of age. He was born at Panmure, Auckland, and educated at the Panmure, Newmarket, and City East Schools, and later at Auckland Grammar School, where he was captain of the cricket eleven. After studying at Auckland University College he went to Otago University, and there graduated Master of Arts. He commenced as a minister in the church at Gisborne in 1890, and was later at St. Paul’s, Wanganui, and First Church, Invercargill. In 1918 Mr Ryburn took charge of St. Andrew’s (Christchurch), and lived in Christchurch for the remainder of his life. Always closely connected with the church during a period of ten years as director of youth work in the church, a task which he undertook in 1921, he travelled all over New Zealand, and, with his strong personality, exercised a remarkable influence upon the thousands of young people with whom he came in contact. Mr Ryburn relinquished his work a year ago, when his health began to fail, and then took charge of the Presbyterian Church at Sumner, but hid indisposition gradually became so acute that for some time past he had not been active in the ministry. Mr Ryburn leaves a wife and family of two. his sons being the Rev. Hubert Ryburn (Dunedin) and Dr W. R. Ryburn (Ashburton).