ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 22106, 29 August 1933, Page 4

ABOUT PEOPLE

Mr J. B. Reid has returned from Wellington. Mr B. Todd, of Dunedin, who motored to Invercargill yesterday, is staying at the Club Hotel.

M R. Neville, of Wellington, who is on a short visit to Invercargill, is staying at the Club Hotel. Mrs A. Petrie and Miss F. Petrie, of Gore, who are visiting Invercargill, are guests at the Club Hotel. Mr P. H. Manoy, representing Spalding Brothers, Ltd., is on a brief business visit to Invercargill.

Arriving in Invercargill by the midday express yesterday, Mr J. Auld, of Dunedin, is staying at the Club Hotel.

Arriving in Invercargill by motor yesterday afternoon Mr W. Crewes, of Wellington, is staying at the Club Hotel.

Mr and Mrs J. C. Hardley, of Auckland, who arrived in Invercargill by motor last evening, are guests at the Grand Hotel.

Mr and Mrs H. Hamer, of Christchurch, arrived in Invercargill by the mid-day express yesterday and are guests at the Club Hotel. A Press Association cable announces the death of Sir Nicholas Lockyer, first Commissioner of Taxation in New South Wales, aged 78. Mr H. E. Taylor, of Wellington, manager of the Mount Cook Tourist Company of New Zealand Ltd., is at present visiting Invercargill. Mr G. Porter, of Wellington, fathei ef the ex-All Black, Mr C. Porter, who arrived in Invercargill from the north last evening by motor car, is a guest at the Club Hotel.

Guests at the Grand Hotel include Messrs H. J. Buch (Wellington), E. T. C. Reece (Christchurch), K. H. Mitchell (Wellington) and H. M. and T. W. Patterson (Dunedin). Mr H. C. Lusty, who since January, 1932, has been district railways engineer at Invercargill, has been transferred on promotion to the position of inspecting engineer, Wellington. He leaves on Thursday.

The Board of Governors of Canterbury College yesterday selected Professor C. Malthus to occupy the chair of modern languages left vacant by the resignation of Professor Blunt. Professor Malthus is at present in the University of Tasmania. He was educated at Timaru High School and Canterbury College. He received his M.A. with first class honours in 1912 for English and French. He taught in Nelson College till 1914 and after two years active service was appointed senior master of French and English at Timaru. In 1920 he was chosen as the first travelling scholar in French and spent a year in Paris and a year in Grenoble. In 1922 he returned to Timaru but was appointed lecturer cf modern languages at the University of Tasmania and in 1932 was given the status of Associate Professor.—Press Association message.

Members of the legal profession gathered in the law library yesterday afternoon to take leave of Mr H. Morgan, who for the past five years has been registrar of the Supreme Court at Invercargill, and who has been appointed a Stipendiary Magistrate. The president of the Southland Law Society, Mr Alan Macalister, in asking Mr Morgan to accept a travelling _ rug as a memento of his happy association with members of the society, congratulated him on his signal and meritorious promotion in the judiciary department. Mr Morgan, he said, had been a most courteous and zealous officer and all would regret his departure, though this regret would be tempered by the knowledge that his worth had been so fittingly recognized. After several others had spoken in endorsement of the president’s remarks, Mr Morgan returned thanks for the presentation made to him and for the tributes paid. He assured members of the profession that he would always have the happiest recollections of his association with them in Invercargill.