ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 22214, 5 January 1934, Page 4

ABOUT PEOPLE

Mr A. C. Mills, of Otautau, who spent the holiday season in the north, returned to Invercargill by the afternoon express yesterday. Mr F. L. Biss, a former manager of the Union Steam Ship Company at Hobart, has arrived in Wellington on a holiday visit to New Zealand.

Mr C. H. Cowman, of Nelson, who has been spending the holidays with Mr and Mrs A. McKay, of Highland, Riverton, leaves for Nelson this morning.

Mr M. Cussen, probation officer for the City of Nelson, has been spending the Christmas vacation with his relatives in Riverton and leaves for Nelson this morning. Mr and Mrs G. Snodden, Wellington, and Mi’ and Mrs H. Fenton, Christchurch, arrived in Invercargill by car yesterday and are guests ,at Hotel Deschler.

The Hon. A. C. Westmoreland, Keeper of the Rolls of the parish of St. Mary, Jamaica, and president of the Boy Scouts’ Association of Jamaica, is visiting the Waikato. Mr J. V. de Gruchy, Napier, Mr and Mrs C. A. Woolley, Wellington, and Mr and Mrs G. W. Scott and family, also of Wellington, are among recent arrivals at the Grand Hotel.

Flying-Officer H. L. Piper, of Christchurch, who made a flight from England to Australia in 1930 in company with Flying-Officer C. E. Kay, of Auckland, has retired from the Air Force on the expiry of his short service commission. He has now been appointed assistant-instructor to the Gravesend school of flying in England. Mr P. J. Thorpy, of Greymouth, went north yesterday after a visit to Southland, where he was in business 20 years ago, Mr Thorpy was deeply impressed with the progress of Southland, and said he was prepared to believe the reports he had heard of late that Invercargill, with its wonderful back country, is the best business town in the Dominion.

After nearly 40 years in the Public Service, Mr R. H. Hooper, editor of the Journal of Agriculture, is retiring on superannuation. He was appointed editor of the journal in 1915. Fellow officers of the Department of Agriculture farewellcd him yesterday and the Director-General of Agriculture, Dr. C. Reakes, made the presentation and paid a tribute to his services.— Wellington Press Association message.

Captain Taprell Dorling, well-known to British readers as “Taffrail,” leaves fox- Lyttelton by the steamer Cornwall this evening. He is going to the Hermitage, Mount Cook, next Tuesday and will stay there for three days, aftexwhich he will visit Pembroke and Queenstown. He rejoins the Cornwall at Bluff on January 15 for Wellington. —Wellington Press Association message.

The Dunedin relatives of Dr. S. S. Cameron have received the announcement of his death at Melbourne last Saturday. He came to Dimedin from Victoria as the expert veterinary surgeon to give directions as to the building of the abattoirs at Burnside in 1898. In Dunedin he married Miss Mina Milne, sister of Mr James Milne. Aftexa while he returned to Victoria, and entered the Government service as Directox- of Agriculture. From that office he retired a few years ago. His wife and two children survive.

In the presence of a large number of employees of the Shell Company of Australia a painting “The River at Warrandyte,” by Penleigh Boyd, was presented at Melbourne to Mi- O. W. Darch, the retiring general manager on the afternoon of December 23, as a farewell gift from the Shell staff in Australia and New Zealand. For the last six years Mr Darch has been general manager of the Shell Company for Australia and New Zealand. He has now left for England to take up a new appointment in the company’s London office. “The River at Warrandyte” is one of Penleigh Boyd’s best pictures.

Dr J. E. Mason, who died at sea on December 20, was ship’s surgeon on the Monowai on her northward voyage from Auckland to Vancouver last August, when he was called upon to perform three operations for appendicitis. In each case his work was successful and the patient made a satisfactory recovery. Only a year previously Dr Mason’s wife had died from acute appendicitis. Dr Mason’s first operation was on the chief wireless operator, Mr E. H. Heather, of Auckland, who was suffering from appendicitis with peritonitis complications. The vessel was slowed down and the ship’s surgery converted into a makeshift operating theatre. With the assistance of passengers and stewards the operation was carried through with complete success. The other two operations were performed shortly after the Monowai had left Honolulu, the patients being a Melbourne passenger 71 years of age and a steward who had been under treatment for acute appendicitis foxsome days. Both made excellent recoveries. When Dr Mason later left the Monowai at Sydney he was presented by the staff of the providore department with a solid oak tobacco cabinet.