ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 22471, 6 November 1934, Page 6

ABOUT PEOPLE

Mr R. Bauchop left by yesterday afternoon’s express for Dunedin. Mr John Mack, of Dunedin, has been appointed sole teacher at Merrivale.

Messrs M. Johnston (Wellington) and W. Agar (Dunedih) are at the Grand Hotel.

Paymaster-Lieutenant-Commander W. G. Hewson, Royal Navy, has been appointed to the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy. Mr P. B. Cooke, of Wellington, barrister and solicitor, has been appointed a member of the Rules Committee under the Judicature Amendment Act, 1930.

Messrs J. Wilson (Auckland), L. Wright (Wellington), W. Crewes (Wellington), J. Semmons (Timaru), J. Walls (Dunedin) and E. T. Anderson (Dunedin) are at the Club Hotel. Sir Stephen Allen (chairman), and Messrs H. B. S. Johnstone and L. Aiderton (members) and Mr L. Conway (secretary) of the Transport Co-ordin-ation Board are at the Grand Hotel. The Rev. C. H. Shave, who was senior padre of the Southern Command in England during the Great War, and who knew a great number of New Zealand soldiers by his visits to camps and hospitals, is at present touring the Dominion. He is at present in the Auckland district.

The death occurred at Johannesburg of Dr. David Vaughan Thomas, a famous Welsh composer, who, as examiner for Trinity College of Music, visited New Zealand on three different occasions within recent years, the last occasion being three years ago. At the time of his death he was conducting examinations in South Africa. He was born at Ystalyfera, Swansea Valley, in 1873.

Mr T. de Renzy Harman celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his admission to the legal profession in Christchurch on Friday. Mr Harman is one of the oldest members of the profession practising in Christchurch. He was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand on November 2, 1884, by Mr Justice Johnston, one of the early judges in Christchurch.