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Southland Times, Issue 22345, 9 June 1934, Page 4

ABOUT PEOPLE

VICE-REGAL. Lord and Lady Bledisloe will return to Wellington on June 16 after three months’ residence in Auckland, states a Press Association telegram. Prior to going South they will spend a few days quietly at Mount Maunganui. They will return to Auckland shortly before Christmas to be in residence during the stay of the Duke of Gloucester, who will be their guest at Government House. A street collection in aid of city bands at Christchurch yesterday realised £307 13/B.—Press Association message. Mr John K. Allison leaves by this morning’s express for Dunedin. Afterwards he intends to tour part of the North Island. Mr W. Grant, Mr G. H. Agar and Mr C. W. Adamson, of Dunedin,. arrived in Invercargill by last evening’s express and are guests at the Grand Hotel. At the monthly meeting of the A. & P. Association yesterday a motion was passed congratulating Sir Robert Anderson on the knighthood recently conferred upon him. Mr A. P. Harper, a life member of the Alpine Club, London, and president of the Federated Mountain Clubs of New Zealand, is at present visiting Invercargill,

At a meeting yesterday the directors of the Southland A. & P. Association decided to appoint Messrs A. M. Weir and A. L. Adamson (secretary) as their representatives at the annual meeting of the Royal Society at Wellington on June 19.

The local representative of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools cf Music, London, has received advice that Mr Gordon Bryan, London, has been appointed examiner for this years practical examinations. Mr Bryan, who is a distinguished pianist, acted as examiner in 1931 and during his stay in Invercargill gave a pianforte recital in Victoria Hall.

The county chairman, Mr. L. A. Niederer, was yesterday appointed by the Southland County Council to be its representative on the executive of the Southland League. Councillor J. McNeill was appointed the representative to the general meetings of the league and the chairman the delegate to the annual conference of Southland members of Parliament and representatives of local bodies.

Dr Alfred A. Levi has been appointed Halley Stewart Research Fellow at the Cancer Hospital, Fulham road, London. Dr. Levi was educated at Otago University, and holds the degrees of B.Sc., M.Sc. (New Zealand), and PhD. (London University). He recently held the John Esmond Research Fellowship and the Beverley Scholarship at Otago University, and has from time to time, issued a number of important publications. The death occurred on Wednesday of Miss Marie Heeney, of the staff of the Oamaru Public Hospital, at the age of 44 years. Miss Heeney was born in Manchester, England, and did duty as a V.A.D. during the Great War. She went to Oamaru 10 years ago, and entered the service of the Waitaki Hospital Board, first at the Kurow Maternity Hospital and later at the Oamaru Public Hospital. She was exceedingly capable, and of a cheerful and lovable disposition. She had no relatives in New Zealand. The death occurred on Thursday ot Mr Alexander Gilchrist, who was well known to the business community of Dunedin. In his early life Mr Gilchrist joined the service of Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co., and at one time was manager of that firm’s Oamaru branch. In recent years he entered into business as. a grain and seed merchant in Dunedin, and about six years ago started business as a sharebroker, with a seat on the Dunedin Stock Exchange. Mr Gilchrist leaves a widow and a family of three.

A Hamilton Press Association message states: An unusual tribute to the respect and esteem in which the late Mr E. J. Mears, solicitor of Hamilton, who died on Thursday, was held, was paid by a representative gathering of barristers and solicitors in Hamilton, at the Supreme Court before Mr Justice Fair yesterday morning. Mr F. A. Swarbrick, president of the Hamilton Law Society, characterized the deceased as one of the most honoured of their colleagues and a modest, tinassuming man whose outstanding virtues had raised him to the highest reputation as a solicitor and citizen.