ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 22113, 6 September 1933, Page 6

ABOUT PEOPLE

Mr M. Royds returned to Invercargill by the express last evening. Latest arrivals at the Grand Hotel include Messrs R, Moore, Dunedin, and J. H. Hides, Melbourne. Information has been received that Madame Chapman and Mr Helmuth Hoffman will visit Invercargill this month to give a recital. Mr John Phillpott has retired from the staff of Sargood, Son, and Ewen, Ltd., Wellington, after 45 years’ service as departmental manager. Mr H. E. Taylor, manager of the Mount Cook Tourist Company, Wellington, who has been staying with his mother, McMaster street, has returned north.

Mr Clutha Mackenzie, director of the New Zealand Institute for the Blind, who has been visiting Invercargill, leaves for the north by this morning’s express.

Mr Robert A. Loughnan, the veteran Wellington journalist (formerly of Christchurch), who has been connected with the Press of the Dominion since 1875, celebrated his ninety-second birthday in Wellington on Friday last. He is also th' oldest New Zealand Rotarian.

Mr D. J. Binning, formerly of the literary staff of the Dominion, Wellington, and the New Zealand Herald, Auckland, and for the last five years a member of the staff of the Sydney Morning Herald, has been appointed Melbourne representative of the Sydnew Morning Herald, and will commence his new duties at an early date. Before the general business of the Marist Old Boys’ Cricket Club was dealt with at the annual meeting last evening, reference was made to the deaths of two of the club’s most respected members during the year, Messrs John Maher, a vice-president, and Joseph Corkin, and on the motion of the president (Father Marlow) a motion of sympathy was carried in the usual manner.

After 33 years’ close association with newspaper work, 26 of which have been spent in Hawkes Bay, Mr William Charles Whitlock has decided to retire from active participation in journalism from October 1 next, when he will relinquish his position as managing director and editor of the Hawkes Bay Herald and Hawkes Bay Tribune. He will be succeeded by his son, Mr William Arthur Whitlock, at present on the sub-editorial staff of the Dominion. —Wellington Press Association. Mr J. S. Baxter was elected Moderator of the Southland Presbytery for the ensuing six months at yesterday’s meeting. Although the Presbytery has been in existence for, 70 years this is the first occasion on which an elder has been appointed Moderator. Many tributes to Mr Baxter’s long and faithful service to the Presbyterian Church were paid by ministers and elders. A. motion of appreciation of the services of the Rev. A. Lindsay Miller during his term as Moderator was carried.

It was announced at yesterday’s meeting of the Southland Presbytery that the Rev. L. G. B. Whitehead, M.A., of Palmerston North, had been appointed home missionary at Wallacetown. It was decided that the induction ceremony should take place on Thursday, September 28. The Moderator, Mr J. S. Baxter, will preside, the late Moderator, the Rev. A. Lindsay Miller, will induct, the Rev. T. A. Speer will preach and the Rev. A. G. Gardiner will address the minister and congregation. A civic reception at Gore on Monday was extended to the Rev. W. P. Nicholson, the Irish evangelist, who is conducting a United Churches' Mission, and Mrs Nicholson. The Rev. Raymond Simpson, president of the Gore Ministers’ Association, was chairman. The Mayor (Mr A, T. Newman) said that good reports had been heard of Mr Nicholson and his work in other centres. In extending a welcome to Mr and Mrs Nicholson, the Mayor expressed the hope that the mission would have a success that both missioner and people would enjoy and would have far-reaching effects for good. In acknowledging the welcome Mr Nicholson appealed to all present to co-operate with him to make the mission a success.