ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 22075, 24 July 1933, Page 6

ABOUT PEOPLE

Mr R. T. Parsons returned to Inver* cargill from Dunedin by the express on Saturday evening. Mr J. Chilwell, of Underwood, returned by the express on Saturday night from a holiday visit to Christchurch.

Messrs P. S. and H. Schneideman, of Wellington, reached Invercargill by motor car last night and are guests at the Grand Hotel.

Messrs Stewart Gibson, of Palmerston North, and G. Riggs, of Dunedin, arrived in Invercargill by the express on Saturday night and are guests at the Grand Hotel.

Mr Dennis Leigh, who was recently appointed from Kew Gardens to a position on the staff of the Dunedin Botanical Gardens, was a week-end visitor to Invercargill. Mr W. G. Blackie, who was lately appointed senior inspector of schools for Auckland, was welcomed by members of the Auckland Education Board at the meeting of the board last Wednesday.

The death is reported from Gisborne of the Rev. Pene Temahori, assistant superintendent of Maori Missions on the East Coast. At one time he was a prominent Rugby player and recently had been chairman of the East Coast Rugby Union. Arthur Storer, aged about 40, while playing Rugby at Kaikoura in an Old Timers’ match on Saturday afternoon, collapsed and died five minutes after the game had commenced. He was a prominent boxer and cyclist in Christchurch before the war.—Christchurch Press Association telegram.

Although he has progressed favourably tinder treatment in the Auckland Hospital, it is not yet known when Lieutenant de Vaisseau J. Lavoie, second-in-command of the French naval sloop Savorgnan de Brazza, will be able to leave the institution. Owing to illness, Lieutenant Lavoie remained in Auckland when the vessel sailed on June 13 for Saigon, French Indo-China, where it will be stationed. A Press Association cablegram from Vancouver reports the death there of Mr James W. Davidson, the internationally famous Rotarian, who organized the movement in Australia and New Zealand. In a two years’ world tour he organized forty clubs and was a past international president. Mr Davidson was with Commander Perry in his Arctic expedition in 1898 and was war correspondent for the New York Herald during the JapaneseChinese War. His wife and daughter survive him.

Mr L. G. Sweeney has been appointed General Manager for New Zealand of the Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Company, Ltd. Mr Sweeney was formerly manager for South Australia. Lie has been twelve years with the _ company and married a Wellington girl, Miss Hobbs, and because of his numerous friends and his liking for the country, is glad to be back in the Dominion. Other New Zealanders holding important appointments in this company include Mr J. Jacques, district manager for Tasmania, and Mr Horace Evans, of the New South Wales staff. The following are the successful candidates in the first-aid examinations conducted by the St. John Ambulance Association: Ladies—Medallions, Anna C. Finlayson, Ruth Jaquiery, Ruth Peterson, Allison Rout. Advanced aid, Eva Murray. First aid, Thelma Warnecke, Margaret Arnott,. Irene Perry, Elizabeth Thomson, Olivine Cullen, Joyce Hay, Lester Hay, Dulcie Robbie, Louie Clark, Eleanor Norman, Olive Shanks, Lydia Bell, Margaret Lincoln, Mavis McEwan, Elizabeth McLeod. Men—Advanced aid, James Clarke, John Anderson, Alan Buddle, Donald Ross, Arnold Laytham. First, aid, William Barnsdale, George Wilkinson, Gordon Anderson.

Prior to his departure from Duntroon the pupils of the Duntroon School and their parents assembled to bid farewell to their headmaster, Mr S. M. Barclay, who has been appointed to the Queenstown School (states the Otago Daily Times). Two senior pupils, on behalf of the school, spoke of the excellent work Mr Barclay had done during his stay here, and of Mrs Barclay’s kindness and sympathy at all times. They asked Mr Barclay to accept, as a very small token of their _ appreciation, a silver-mounted walking stick, Mrs Barclay a crystal sugar bowl, and Miss Joan Barclay a manicure set. Mrs Barclay and Miss Joan Barclay were also presented with bouquets.