ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 21998, 24 April 1933, Page 6

ABOUT PEOPLE

Mr John Fisher travelled north by the express last evening. Mr and Mrs J. W. Smith returned from Wanaka yesterday. Mr W. Brash was a passenger on the through express to the north last evening.

Mr John M. Gamble, of Wellington, has been appointed New Zealand factory representative of the Rover Company of Coventry, England. Colonel J. Hargest, M.P. (Invercargill) will give the address at the Citizens’ memorial service in Christchurch to-morrow, Anzac Day.

Mr Wilfred Davey has been appointed deputy registrar of births, deaths and marriages for Stewart Island and his appointment appears in the latest issue of the Gazette.

The Rev. Father Innocent Doyle, of Adelaide, left Auckland by the Niagara for Sydney on his return home. He has been in New Zealand for a year on work connected with the Dominican Order.

The Rev. Father M. J. O’Neill, priest In charge of the social work of the Roman Catholic diocese of Auckland, and the Rev. Father J. J. Kelly, parish priest at Helensville, left by the Niagara for Sydney, en route to Ireland. They will be absent about six months. Canon G. T. Beale, vicar of Holy Trinity Church, Stratford, has resigned, and will relinquish his duties m June in order to visit England. Canon Beale, who has been at Stratford nearly four years, was formerly vicar of St. Barnabas’, Mount Eden.

Mr J. L. Fisher, of the Overseas and Foreign Department of the Bank of England, who arrived in Invercargill on Friday evening, was taken for a tour of the Southland province by members of the Southland League on Saturday. Makarewa was first visited and Mr Fisher showed keen interest in the freezing works there. Lunch was taken at Winton and then the party visited a number of Western District towns. The return journey was made from Lorncville through Rakauhauka and Dacre and on to Gore. There a car was waiting to convey Mr Fisher to Dunedin, where he had an engagement on Saturday evening. Mr D. Ardell, of the Department of Internal Affairs, is accompanying Mr Fisher on his tour through New Zealand. Mr Frank Milner, C.M.G., rector of the Waitaki Boys’ High School, has been invited to deliver one of the principal addresses at the International Convention of Rotary Clubs at Boston, United States of America, in June. Mr Milner’s subject will be “The New World Order from the Standpoint of Rotary.” The New Zealand Education Department has agreed to allow Mr Milner to attend the convention and his speech will be broadcast over the whole of America. At the New Zealand Rotary Conference held in Palmerston North at the end of February, Mr Milner delivered a striking address on the problem of war debts and reparations, and the suggestion was then made that he should be sent on a lecturing mission to the United States.