ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 21897, 24 December 1932, Page 6

ABOUT PEOPLE

Mr B. W. Hewat left by car yesterday for Oamaru.

Mr A. E. Smith leaves Invercargill by this morning’s express on his way to Auckland.

His many friends will be pleased to learn that Mr James “Couta” Smith, of Bluff, returned to his home yesterday, much improved in health.

Edward James Guiness, Controller of Stores in the Railway Department, is retiring after 40 years’ service with the department, states a "Wellington Press Association message.

It is reported that Squadron-Leader M. C. McGregor is making satisfactory progress after his recent accident, and it is expected that he will make a complete recovery. Messrs Gordon J. Reed, A. W. Jones and G. Tapper leave Invercargill by this morning’s express on a holiday visit to Norfolk Island, the New Hebrides, Lord Howe Island and Sydney. i- •

News has been received of the death in Sydney of Mr Herbert Page, resi-dent-director for Australia and New Zealand of Butterworth and Co., states a Wellington Press Association telegram.

From eleven applicants, the Upper Hutt Borough Council has appointed Mr Archie Cecil Renner town clerk. Until recently he was clerk-treasurer to the Kaikoura County Council.—Wellington Press Association message. Messrs C. H. and J. S. Smythe, of Wellington, and Mr G. W. Vere, of Auckland, arrive by this evening’s express to spend the Christmas and New Year holidays with Mr and Mrs W. R. J. Smythe, Baird street. Mr and Mrs Maurice Roderique, of Papatotara, have received word that their daughter, Nessie, who has been attending Nelson College for some time, has passed the junior typists’ examination and was first in the examination. Nessie Roderique received her primary education at the Papatotara School. Mr H. W. Rhodes, M.A., of Ormond College, Melbourne University, has been appointed to the position of lecturer in English at Canterbury University College to replace Dr Helen Simpson. Mr Rhodes graduated in 1927 with first-class honours in English, and since then he has been tutor at Ormond College, and has been prominent in Workers’ Educational Association work. Mr K. Bryan, of the Oamaru Post Office staff, has received advice of his transfer to Lawrence, and will leave Oamaru early in the new year. Mr Bryan is a member of the Oamaru Lawn Tennis Club, is the present holder of the Familton Cup. He will be greatly missed in tennis circles, as be has played top man for North Otago on several occasions. The death has occurred at the Palmerston North Hospital, at the age 'of 78, after a long illness, of Baron Jean Jakques De May Dalkemade, for many years Supervisor of Physical Culture for the Wellington Education Board, and also of the New Zealand Permanent Artillery. He was born at Lille, France. He was the eldest son of Baron Edward De May Dalkemade. Deceased came to New Zealand in 1879.— Press Assocition message.

Mr J. S. Jennings, of the Eastern Extension Cable Company’s staff, who has been for some years located at the Cape St. James station, in French Cochin China, is returning to New Zealand about the end of January. Mr Jennings, who is an old Christchurch boy, was trained at the Cable Company’s station at Wakapuaka, near Nelson. Since he first left New Zealand many years ago he has been stationed at several places in the East.

On Wednesday, at the Burnside sale, opportunity was taken by the attending butchers to make a small presentation—a box of cigars—to Mr James Bain, of Ravensboume, the oldest butcher in Otago. Mr James Henderson, on behalf of the fraternity, _ congratulated Mr Bain, and in wishing him the compliments of the season, expressed the general hope that he would long continue in weekly attendance at the metropolitan meat market.

Mr John Edmond, of Surry Hills, Sydney, has given expression to the seasonal feelings of goodwill in a manner that should brighten the lives of a number of young folk. He has forwarded a donation to the secretary of the Presbyterian Social Service Association in Dunedin (Mr J. B. Brugh) which will enable a Christmas gift to be made to every child under the care of the association. At the present time the association has 66 children in its charge. The Rev. B. M. O’Brien, S.J., a son of Dr A. B. O’Brien, has returned to Christchurch for a short holiday after eight years’ study abroad. For two years after leaving Christ’s College in 1923 Mr O’Brien went through his Novitiate at a Jesuit College in Sydney, going from there to Dublin, where he graduated B.A. after three years’ study. For the last three years he has been studying philosophy in Munich, Bavaria. Mr O’Brien does not hope to be ordained as a priest for another seven years. His work will probably be in Australia where there is much to be done in establishing the new Jesuit Province of Australia with its colleges and seminaries.

The directors of the Otago Farmers’ Union Mutual Fire Insurance Association have decided to open up branches at Timaru and Nelson early in the new year. Mr D. Crosbie, the association’s resident inspector at Timaru, will take over the management of the Timaru branch, and Mr W. H. Lyons, who is at present inspector attached to the Christchurch office of the association, will be transferred to Nelson. Both Messrs Crosbie and Lyons are Dunedin men, the former having been at one time inspector for the Commercial Union Insurance Company, while Mr Lyons was for many years inspector for the Victoria Insurance Company at Dunedin.

The kindly regard and esteem in which the late Mr Harold Livingstone Tapley, C.M.G., was held by his fellow citizens was evident yesterday morning by the. large assemblage, representative of wide interests in the .community that attended the funeral, which left the residence of his son, Mr Guy Tapley, for the Anderson’s Bay Cemetery, reports the Dunedin Evening Star. A brief service was held in the house by the Rev. W. Hardy Johnson, who also conducted the service at the graveside. The .pall-bearers were the five sons of the deceased—Messrs Reginald, Guy, John, Colin, apd Brian—and his brother, Mr Cecil Tapley, of Invercargill. There was a large number of wreaths from' the various public bodies and associations with which the deceased was connected, and from friends, these floral tributes coming from many parts of New Zealand. The cortege was a lengthy one, comprising over eighty motor cars, the mourners including members of the family, relatives. and personal friends, and numerous representatives of commercial and public life. Shipping and insurance interests, with which the late Mr Tapley was most closely associated, were very largely represented, and there were many members of public bodies on which he held office. Among the mourners were the Hon. W. Downie Stewart (Minister of Finance and Customs), Sir Thomas Sidey, Sir Charles Statham, the Mayor (Mr R. S. Black), the Town Clerk (Mr G. A, Lewin), and members of the City Council, Mr J. Loudon (chairman of the Otago Harbour Board) and members of the Harbour Board, Mr F. W. Jones, M.P., Mr J. W. Munro, M.P., and the superintendent of police (Mr W. Eccles). j