ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 22475, 10 November 1934, Page 4

ABOUT PEOPLE

Mr A. Derbie returned to Invercargill by the express last evening. Messrs C. Payne, P. Hamilton and L. V. Malcolm (Dunedin), J. Day (Wellington) and J. Fame (Auckland) are staying at the Club Hotel.

Constable A. W. G. Watkins, of Balclutha, has received notice of his transfer to take charge of Kurow station. He will be succeeded at Balclutha by Constable D. S. Moodie, of Kurow.

Major F. H. Lampen, of Dunedin, who is to produce the Marlborough Amateur Operatic Society’s play, “Kissing Time,” has arrived in Blenheim. He intends spending about a month in the district.

The quarterly sittings of the Supreme Court in Invercargill having concluded yesterday, the Hon. Mr Justice Kennedy, accompanied by his associate, Mr H. G. Bullock, will leave for Dunedin by this morning’s express. A Press Association message from Sydney states that Mr Andrew William Sneddon has been appointed General Manager of the Australian Mutual Provident Society in succession of Mr A. C. Hollinworth, who has retired. Mr P. A. de la Perrelle, M.P., who has been ill for two months, yesterday attended the executive meeting of the Southland Education Board. In extending a welcome to Mr Perrelle the chairman, Mr S. Rice, said he was pleased that he was able to resume some of his public duties. Sir Holburt Waring, C.8.E., M.S., F.R.C.S., president of the Royal College of Surgeons, after visiting Melbourne to open the new building of the Royal College of Surgeons of Australasia, will spend a week in New Zealand, during which he will look over the Rotorua baths and the spa at Te Aroha, and also visit the Waitomo Caves.

Sir Henry Davies, of Exeter, who was previously Controller of the Savings Bank Department, General Post Office, London, left England by the Port Fairy on October 24 for New Zealand. Sir Henry, at the age of 78, is still very active. He has mapped out a tour of the Southern Lakes and also intends to walk over the Milford track. He will spend three months in the Dominion. The Port Fairy is expected to reach Dunedin on December 4. Mr J. A. J. Hunter, who has been appointed assistant Postmaster-General in the Coalition Government ■which has now beer, formed in the Australian Commonwealth, is a younger brother of Professor S. F. Hunter, cf Knox College. Since 1920 he has represented Maranoa, a pastoral constituency of 250,000 square miles in the south-west corner of Queensland, and for most of that time was whip and secretary of the Federal Country Party. Mr Harry K. Bourne, B.Sc., an old boy of Auckland Grammar School, has been awarded the British Thomson Houston Fellowship for 1934, under the terms of which he will visit the works of the General Electric Company, in New York, Boston and Cleveland to engage in research work, and will later take up a position in the research department of the British Thomson Houston Company. Mr Bourne is the son of the Rev. H. C. Bourne, M.A., who was on the staff of the Auckland Grammar School from 1917 to 1922.

Mr J. E. Taylor, late chief accountant for the Invercargill City Council, was met by his fellow employees on Thursday evening on the eve of his retirement after 20 years’ service and presented with an oak clock, a leather attache case and a reading lamp. Mr W. F. Sturman (Town Clerk) expressed appreciation of the conscientious service given by Mr Taylor during his long association with the office and trusted that he would long enjoy his well-earned retirement. Other officials also testified to Mr Taylor’s general ability and Mr Taylor suitably replied. Mr F. K. Tucker, of the Valuation Department, who has been appointed officer-in-charge at Christchurch, leaves for the north by the express this morning. Yesterday afternoon he was met by the local staff and valuers when a presentation was made to him. All joined in expressing regret at his departure, but at the same time congratulated him on his well-merited promotion. Pending the arrival of his successor, Mr S. C. Gillies will act as officer-in-charge. Mr Tucker was also the recipient of presentations from the Waihopai School Committee and the Invercargill Dental Clinic Committee, to both of which organizations he has rendered valuable service as secretary.