ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 22489, 25 January 1935, Page 6

ABOUT PEOPLE

Mr and Mrs Kennedy Black returned from the north on Wednesday. Mr D. McDougall, M.P., returned to Gore last evening from Wellington.

Mr and Mrs W. F. Lewis, Northend, returned from the north yesterday. Sir Malcolm Campbell has sailed for the United States, states an official wireless message.

New guests at the Grand Hotel include Messrs T. Black (Christchurch), G. Blackwood (Dunedin), H. C. Hanes (Christchurch), H. Fletcher (Wellington), I. G. Massey (Melbourne), L. G. Lilley (Dunedin), J. R. Wilson (Timaru), Dr Bennett, R. G. Charters (Wendonside), S. J. Cantrell (Dunedin), H. T. Hall (Auckland) and H. F. Tonkin (Sydney).

Amongst guests at the Club Hotel, Bluff, this week were: Mrs I. W. Raymond (London), Mr and Mrs Holyoake (Christchurch), Mr and Mrs Anderson (Port Chalmers), Mrs McGibbon and children, Mrs O’Neill, Mrs Caverhill and child and Miss Rodgers (all of Gore), Mr J. Moir (Dunedin), Mr J. Thomson (Waipahi), Mr Lawrence (Wellington).

Mr C. S. Longuet was elected an honorary fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Horticulture at the annual conference of that body held in Dunedin yesterday. Two honorary overseas fellows, Sir Frederick William Moore and Dr Willis, were also elected. Sir Frederick Moore was formerly curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin.

Mr John T. Mair, of Wellington, the Government architect, is paying a short visit to Invercargill. The designer of the new Dunedin Post Office, he came south, in his official capacity, for the ceremony of the laying of the foundation stone of that structure by the Duke of Gloucester recently. He then motored through to the Eglinton to spend a few days there and has now returned to Invercargill to stay with his brother, Mr H. Lindsay Mair, until early next week, when he leaves for Wellington again.

Mr Peter Fraser, M.P., deputy leader of the New Zealand Labour Party, arrived in Invercargill by the express last evening for the purpose of delivering a series of addresses in Southland. Mr Fraser, who is regarded as one of the ablest debaters in Parliament, will open his tour of Southland at Gorge Road to-morrow night, and will speak at Orepuki on Monday and Invercargill on Wednesday. This evening he is to deliver an address at the Otautau Scottish Society’s gathering. While in Southland Mr Fraser will be the guest of the Hon. Thomas O’Byme, M.L.C.

At the annual meeting of the N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., held in London on December 13, the chairman, Mr Harold G. Brown, made the following reference to the late Sir Henry Buckleton: “It is with the deepest regret that I have to inform you that a telegram received only last Friday from Wellington announced the death that day of Sir Henry Buckleton, who in March last was appointed to a seat on the local board for New Zealand. Sir Henry’s distinguished career with the Bank of New Zealand, of which for many years he was the general manager, is widely known, and upon his retirement we thought ourselves most fortunate in securing his services as a local director. His loss will be greatly felt, and I am sure I voice your thoughts in expressing our deep sympathy with Lady Buckleton and the members of her family in the bereavement they have sustained.”