ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 22076, 25 July 1933, Page 6

ABOUT PEOPLE

Mr T. J. Boyce left for Dunedin by the express yesterday afternoon. Mr R. N. Wilkinson, of Dunedin, arrived in Invercargill yesterday and is staying at the Grand Hotel. Mr D. V. Gain, of Dunedin, arrived in Invercargill by motor last evening and is a guest at the Grand Hotel. Dr. A. Tennant, of Wellington, who has been staying at the Grand Hotel, returned north by the express yesterday.

Mr F. J. Raines, who has been promoted to a position in the Dunedin railway goods office from the position of chief clerk in the local district traffice office, leaves for Dunedin this morning.

Cabled advice has been received that Dr R. Baden Watson, of Dunedin, has passed his examination for the F.R.C.S. degree at Edinburgh. Dr Watson is at present at Dublin, where he is taking a special course in obstetrics at the Rotunda Hospital, and he intends to sail for New Zealand on August 30. Prior to his departure for the Old Country Dr Watson was practising at Ranfurly.

Mr Henry Blatch Watts, who passed away at Dunedin on July 17, was the third son of Mr and Mrs F. H. Watts, and a grandson of Mr H. F. Blatch, who was a passenger by the John Wickliffe in 1848. Mr Watts was born at Maungatua in December, 1865, and was educated in the local district school. After leaving school he entered the service of Mr W. Birch, Dunedin, in the dairying trade. When the Taieri and Peninsula Milk Supply Company' began operations in Dunedin, he was employed there, and for several years had charge of a milk run. Subsequently he was made manager of the company’s creamery at Portobello, and later manager of Shag Valley Creamery, Palmerston. When the Taieri and Peninsula Company disposed of the Shag Valley property, Mr Watts returned to the Dunedin factory and worked there until failing health compelled him to retire about eight years ago. He purchased a house and section in Peel street, Mornington, where he resided until his death. His sterling, honest and upright character, and happy, cheerful disposi-' tion made him many friends wherever he was known. In 1890 he married a daughter of the late Mr W. H. Sarney, of Dunedin, by whom he had a family of two daughters and one son. His remains were interred in the Palmerston Cemetery, where his son,’who died in 1908, is buried. He is survived by his widow and two daughters, and also three sisters and two brothers.