ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 22486, 22 January 1935, Page 4

ABOUT PEOPLE

Mr A. W. Jones is at present on 8 holiday visit to Auckland. Mr David McDougall, M.P., will leave Gore by this morning’s express. Mr W. R. Rea leaves Invercargill for Christchurch by the express this morning.

Guests at the Grand Hotel include D. Campbell (Dunedin) and J. A. Pearce (Dunedin). Lord Nuffield has left for a three months’ tour of New Zealand and Australia, states a London cable. New guests at the Club Hotel include: Messrs E. C. Kinsmass (Matarae), J. Ritchie (Gore), R. G. Stark (Dunedin), and J. Aitcheson (Eglinton Valley). Mr W. Crichton travelled to Dunedin on the express yesterday afternoon to attend the national flower show being held there to-day and to-morrow.

Mr J. L. Lennie was a passenger on the mid-day express to Dunedin yesterday. He is to attend the national flower show which is being held in that city.

Mr Peter Fraser, the well-known Labour M.P., who will shortly visit several Southland centres, is expected to arrive in Invercargill by the express on Thursday evening. Mr J. M. Young, representative in New Zealand of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, reached Invercargill last evening in connection with the publicity for “Treasure Island.”

Mr Thomas Petit, Australian champion bushcraft exponent and former world’s champion axeman and sawyer, is at present on a visit to Southland. Mr Petit hopes to attend the Browns Society’s sports meeting to-morrow. Subject to the approval of the Minister of Health, the new Medical Superintendent of the Palmerston North Public Hospital will be Dr J. H. North, resident surgical officer and tutor at the Dunedin Hospital, states a Press Association message from Palmerston North.

Mr R. White, formerly of the Awarua wireless staff, but now of Wellington, who has been paying a short visit to Invercargill, travels north by the express this morning. Mr White recently returned to New Zealand from a holiday trip to China, Japan and India. Mr J. S. Scott, manager of the Invercargill branch of the Government Tourist Bureau, leaves by this morning’s express for Auckland, where he will connect with the Monowai for Sydney. Upon his arrival in Australia, Mr Scott will join the Otranto, which is making a pleasure cruise to New Zealand. Mr Scott will arrange trips in the North Island for the 1000 or so tourists who will be visiting Auckland and Wellington.

The New Zealand Institute of Horticulture, which opens its National Conference and National Flower Show to-day in the Town Hall, Dunedin, has an active branch in Southland, which will be represented at the conference and show by the president, Mr C. S. Longuet, and Mr B. P. Mansfield, who has undertaken the collection and showing of the Southland exhibit, and has succeeded in obtaining a large collection of plants and blooms, including many native varieties, and left for Dunedin by train on Sunday evening. Mr Longuet, accompanied by Mrs Longuet, left for Dunedin by the express yesterday afternoon.

Mr A. L. Upchurch, supervisor of the Telegraph branch of the Oamaru Post Office, who has been appointed to the position of postmaster at Lumsden, was met by members of the staff and presented wtih a silver cream jug and sugar basin. The postmaster (Mr H. Miller) made the presentation, and in doing so, expressed regret at losing such an efficient officer, and the hope that Mr Upchurch would have every happiness in the future. Other members who spoke were Messrs Madden (money order), Cartwright (mail room), Gaitt (instruction)/ Hitch (counter), Munro (clerical and advisory), Pinder and Rae (mechanicians' branch), Lavender (exchange), Riley and Anderson (telegraph), and Robertson (despatch). Mr J. McKay, formerly of Oamaru and now of Invercargill, extended a welcome to Mr Upchurch on behalf of the Invercargill district. The recipient suitably acknowledged the gift.