ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 22217, 9 January 1934, Page 4

ABOUT PEOPLE

VICE-REGAL. Their Excellencies left Wellington yesterday for a visit to Franz Josef glacier. They return to Wellington ai the beginning of next week.—Press Association message.

Mr R. A. Anderson was a passenger for the north by the express yesterday afternoon.

Mr O. V. Rust, of Ceylon, arrived in Invercargill yesterday and is a guest at the Grand Hotel.

Mr A. R. Ponder, of Christchurch, is visiting Invercargill and is a guest at the Grand Hotel. The Rt. Rev. Dr Whyte, Roman Catholic Bishop of Dunedin, returned to Dunedin by the express yesterday afternoon.

Mr Byron Brown, of Otaki, has been appointed judge for the Bendigo competitions and will leave for Australia early in May.

Mr J. Russell Page, the well-known Ru°by five-eighth, of Wellington, a former Southland High School boy, is at present on holiday at Stewart Island.

Mr and Mrs Errol A. Hamilton, who have been attending the jubilee celebrations of the Croydon School, leit for Dunedin by car yesterday morning.

The Hon. J. Bitchener, Minister of Public Works, accompanied by _ Miss Bitchener, arrived in Invercargill by the express last evening and is staying with the Hon. Adam and Mrs Hamilton.

A former Auckland Customs officer, Mr James Lockie, died on Saturday, aired 80. He was in the Customs Department from 1881 to 1919, ana was also a prominent Freemason and Presbyterian—Press Association.

Captain and Mrs J. Vivart, of London, who arrived in Invercargill on Sunday, leave early this morning by train for Queenstown. Having toured through New Zealand, they will sail later for Australia, thence returning to London.

At last evening’s meeting of the management committee of the Southland Cricket Association it was decided to write expressing the sympathy of the association with Mr H. Drees, one ot the delegates, in the death of his father.

Mr and Mrs John Davidson and Master Eoin Davidson, of Corstorphine, Dunedin, who have been the guests of Mr and Mrs Errol Hamilton, the Schoolhouse, Croydon, during the week-end, returned home by car yesterday morning.

Advice has been received that Mr G. A. Lewin, Town Clerk of Dunedin, who has been in London for some time acting in the interests of the Dunedin City Council and the Otago Harbour Board, left England on Saturday by the Otranto, which is due at Sydney, via Suez, on February 14. Mr Lewin will spend a fortnight in Australia before returning to Dunedin.

The death has occurred in the Mangonui Hospital of Mr James Andrew Brownlie. He was born in 1859 at Pollokshaws, Scotland, and was educated in Glasgow. As a young man, Mr Brownlie travelled extensively. ±n 1898, shortly after coming to New Zealand, he entered the employ of the Dunedin, branch of Dalgety and Company, Limited. Later he joined the Health Department as an inspector, being stationed in various parts of the Wellington and Taranaki districts, ana also at Niue Island. In 1906 he resigned from the Health Department to enter the teaching profession, and under the Auckland Education Board he was m charge of various backblocks schools.

By the death of Mr William Robert Walker, of Oamaru, that town has lost a citizen of high integrity, and one who was known by his friends as a very fine sportsman. Mr Walker was born at Papakaio Plains 56 years ago, and carried on farming successfully at Airedale until he retired six years ago. Golf and bowls were his main forms of recreation. He was in particular a very enthusiastic bowler, and as a member of the Awamoa Bowling Club he presented to the club for competition silver stars, which are known as the Walker Stars. He was also a member of the North Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Association, Oamaru Jockey Club, Oamaru Trotting Club, and a vice-president of the North Otago Motor Association.

At the Gore Methodist Church on Sunday night a memorial service in honour of the late Mr Alexander Brock was held. The Rev. H. C. Orchard, who conducted the service, said the late Mr Brock was known throughout the district as a man. of integrity and an upright Christian gentleman. He was always an ardent church-goer, and one who supported liberally the claims of the church and its activities. He took his part in local and district affairs, and was also noted for his integrity and loyalty to any cause he took up. The people of the district in which he lived could testify to this. The loss of such a man was severe, and especially so to his widow and family, and their prayers and svmpathy went out to them all. During the service Mr L. Stevenson sang Tennyson’s “Crossing the Bar.”

Mr F. J. Phillips, who died at Richmond, Nelson, last week, was born in Dunedin, where he spent the early part of his life and followed his occupation of a cabinet-maker. Acing upon medical advice he went north to try the climate of Nelson. He entered into business in Hardj' street, which he and Mrs Phillips successfully carried on for some years. As an active worker in the Church of Christ he visited the mission field recently opened in Southern Rhodesia and subsequently accepted an engagement there as missionary, selecting Dodaya as headquarters, where he with Mrs Phillips and an unmarried daughter engaged in the arduous pioneering work for some six or seven years organizing, erecting suitable buildings, and carrying _on gospel work. However, the conditions gradually told on their health, compelling a return to a more equable climate. After again settling in Nelson, Mr Phillips bought a small property at Richmond, where he had resided until laid aside three months ago by an incurable illness. There are three married daughters living in New Zealand and one married and settled at Bulawayo, South Africa.

Two handsome presentations were made yesterday to Mr G. T. Stevens, of the staff of J. E. Watson and Co., whose marriage takes place to-day. Mr A. H. Courtis, of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, presented him with an aneroid barometer on behalf of the Invercargill Grain Merchants’ Association. Together with other speakers, Mr Courtis made reference to the fact that the success of that organization was largely due to the efforts of Mr Stevens, whose association with the movement since its inception had resulted in its becoming one of the leading bodies of its type in New Zealand. In his reply Mr Stevens remarked that the members of the association were men of the finest type, and trustworthy to a degree. Later in the afternoon Mr Stevens was the recipient of a pewter tea and coffee service and cake dish from the directors and his fellowworkers at J. E. Watson and Co.’s. Mr John Gilkison, managing director of the firm, made the presentation, referring to the long and faithful service which had already been carried out by Mr Stevens. Tributes were also paid by other speakers.