ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 22215, 6 January 1934, Page 4

ABOUT PEOPLE

Guests at the Grand Hotel include Mr and Mrs J. Johnston, Auckland. Mr Frank Booth, formerly ,of Invercargill but now of Timaru, is at present visiting Southland. Mr and Mrs F. G. White, who have been staying with Mr and Mrs R. T. Parsons, Layard street, returned to Dunedin by yesterday afternoons express.

A Wellington Press Association telegram states that the Rev. C. R. Mitchell, of Melbourne, has accepted a call to the Wellington Unitarian Free Church, and that he will arrive there on February 5.

Messrs E. F. Johnston, of Wellington, and J. Johnston, of Auckland, arrived in Invercargill yesterday and are guests at the Club Hotel. Mr G. Maybury, of Christchurch, is also at the Club.

Mr and Mrs G. D. Smart and family have arrived in Invercargill from Christchurch, Mr Smart being on transfer to the local district traffic manager’s office of the Railway Department.

Mr C. T. P. Ulm is returning to Sydney by the Makura on Tuesday in connection with a tender for the Singa-pore-Australia section of the EnglandAustralia air mail service.—Wellington Press Association message.

Dr C. Malthus, who was appointed last August to succeed Professor T. G. R. Blunt in the chair of modern languages at Canterbury College, arrived in Christchurch on Thursday preparatory to taking up his duties at the opening of the university year. Dr Malthus has been acting as associate professor of modern languages at the University of Tasmania in Hobart.

Miss Ella Margaret Stanwell, whose death occurred in Dunedin on Wednesday after a brief illness, had occupied a position on the teaching staff of Columbia College for about two years. Prior to that time she was connected with Archerfield School and St. Hilda’s Collegiate School. She came from England 15 years ago to engage in the teaching profession. Miss Stanwell was noted for her culture and was a very capable teacher. Her disposition was kindly and sympathetic, and she was not only a patient tutor to the many girls who came under her care, but a sincere friend as well.

Five appointments to teaching positions have been announced by the Southland Education Board. Miss Annie Poyton, formerly, on the staff of the Canterbury Education Board, has been appointed sole teacher of the Quarry Hills School. Miss Dorothy R. Ferguson, of the Southland relieving staff, will take up a position as sole teacher at Waikawa. Mr Leslie R. Souness ha's been transferred from the position of assistant master at Waihopai to assistant master at Wyndham. Miss Mignonne Carmichael, of the Canterbury relieving staff, has been appointed assistant mistress at the Halfmoon Bay School. Miss Freda E. Roy, now of the Wellington district, has been appointed assistant mistress at the Tokanui School.

Mr James Wilson, deputy chief manager of the National Bank of Australasia, retired last week under the age regulations of the bank. Mr Wilson was born in New Zealand 63 years ago. When he was a youth he entered the service of the Union Bank of Australia in New Zealand, and later he served that bank in Victoria and Western Australia. His term of employment aggregated 26 years. In 1913 the Colonial Bank sought his services, and he became its assistant general manager. Upon the death of Mr Selby Paxton he acted as general manager, and he was formally appointed to that position in 1917. When the amalgamation of the National and Colonial Banks took place in 1918, Mr Wilson became deputy chief manager of the National Bank.

A fifty-year-old Anglican cleric who has had an unusually active and interesting career, the Rev. J. T. Holman, 0.8. E., M.A., was a passenger from London in the Mataroa, which arrived in Wellington on Thursday night. Before he returns to England he will make a tour of New Zealand. For several years before the war Mr Holman, who was born in England, served in a parish in Canada. He went to the front with the Canadian forces in 1914 as'a stretcher-bearer, and three years later took up duties as a padre with the Canadians until the end of the war. After that he was for three years chaplain at Hong Kong Cathedral, and was later appointed chaplain to the British Legation at Pekin after he had spent six months’ leave in England. His term of office at the legation expired last month.

Mr H. R. Climie, M.lnst., C.E., left Napier this week for Central Otago, where he has accepted a position with an important mining company. While reconstruction engineer at Napier, Mr Climie was responsible for the whole of the engineering work involved in the restoration of the borough services and streets (states the Hawkes Bay Herald). This work comprised the reconstruction of more than 30 miles of sewers five pumping stations, the reinstatement of the water-supply system, the construction of a new pumping station and reservoirs, and the sinking of additional wells to bring the capacity up to 4,000,000 gallons a day. The stormwater system was also reconstructed, seven miles of main drains being provided with a new pumping station to deal with the stormwater off Napier South. Tire former commissioners have put on record that by Mr Climie’s coordination of the borough electricity using services costs have been reduced at the rate of £4OOO per annum.