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Southland Times, Issue 22449, 12 October 1934, Page 6

ABOUT PEOPLE

Mr James Hargest, M.P., returned to Invercargill by last evening’s express. Miss S. E. Pratt, radiographer at the Southland Hospital, was at yesterday’s meeting of the board granted twelve months’ leave of absence to visit England.

Mr J. W. Mathewson who has been Assistant General Manager of the Union Steam Ship Company has been appointed General Manager, states a Wellington Press Association message. Three Southland students attending the University of Otago, Messrs J. Hamilton, A. G. Pickard and K. F, Uttley, have been awarded Rugby blues. The last-mentioned also won his blue at cricket.

Flight-Lieutenant M. W. Buckley, R.N.Z.A.F., left Christchurch on Wednesday evening for 'Wellington, en route to Melbourne, where he will see the finish of the Melbourne Centenary Air Race, He will return to Christchurch about November 4.

Sir lan and Lady Fraser were accorded a civic reception at Dunedin yesterday. Later Sir lan addressed the Rotary Club and in the evening was tendered an informal reception by the Returned Soldiers’ Association and also entertained by the Social Club of Otago and Southland.—Press Association message.

The Rev. J. Lawson Robinson, of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Christchurch, was on Wednesday nominated as Moderator of the General Assembly by the Christchurch Presbytery. The Rev. G. K. Aitken, in moving the motion, said that during the 34 years of the Union of Churches, Christchurch, had been represented by only one Moderator at the Assembly. Mr James Robertson, president of the Southland Acclimatization Society, made reference at last evening’s meeting of the council of the society to the death of Mr J. S. Nelson, who had been chairman of the research committee. Mr Robertson said that Mr Nelson had shown the utmost energy in that office and his service had been of the greatest value. A motion of sympathy with his widow and relatives was carried in the customary manner.

Dr W. A. Anderson, medical superitendent of the Lake County Hospital, Frankton, in reporting to the Southland Hospital Board that he had resumed duty on September 24, wrote; “My trip Home was a great success in every way. I did some post graduate work at the Middlesex Hospital which I know will be useful to me. Also I had the privilege of attending the British Medical Conference at Bournemouth as one of the official delegates for New Zealand. The conference was attended by some two thousand doctors from all parts of the British Empire and was most inspiring and helpful.”

The death occurred at Inchclutha (South Otago) on Monday, of Mr Peter Anderson, one of the best-known men in the cattle business in the Dominion. He was the third son of Mr and Mrs Robert Anderson, of Dunedin. As a young man he joined the staff of the Taicri and Peninsula Milk Supply Company, with which he remained for 12 years.' He then purchased a farm at Inchclutha, which he named “Sandringham,” and had resided there for the last 33 years, engaging in dairying, cattle raising, and general farming. At various agricultural shows he carried off numerous prizes in the fat cattle section, his particular fancy being the Shorthorn-Hercford cross. He was a director of the Stirling Dairy Factory Company for about 20 years and a member of the Inchclutha Road and River Board for about the same period. He took a keen interest in public affairs generally, and was a stout protagonist of any cause he espoused. About two years ago he met with an accident, and since then he had been in indifferent health. A serious operation about a year ago further weakened him, and of late he was much of an invalid. The members of the family are Peter and Robert (Inchclutha), Mrs W. Maxwell (Riverton) and Mrs Gladstone Willcocks (Stirling).