ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 25306, 8 June 1935, Page 4

ABOUT PEOPLE

Mr John Fisher, of Otautau, returned from Dunedin by the express last evening.

Messrs R. Anderson and K. Cameron, both of Dunedin, are guests at the Club Hotel.

Mr B. A. Murphy, of Dunedin,, arrived in Invercargill by last evenings express and is staying at the Grand Hotel.

Mr J. A. Feehly, telegraphist at the Milton Post Office, left yesterday morning on transfer to the Balfour office. He will be succeeded by Mr J. A. Greenfield, a cadet from the Oamaru office.

A London Press Association cablegram states that an Australian,. Mr Duncan Hall, author of “The British Commonwealth of Nations,” has been appointed Dominion Press officer for the League of Nations at Geneva. Sir James Grose, general manager of the National Bank of New Zealand, Ltd., arrived on a visit to Invercargill by last evening’s express. He will be the guest of Sir Robert Anderson at Victoria Park and will leave on his way to Wellington on Monday. Messrs A. S. Holms (president) and A. M. Weir were at yesterday’s meeting of the Southland A. and P. Association appointed the association’s delegates to the annual meeting and conference of the Royal Agricultural Society to be held on June 25. Mr R. Kennedy, of Otautau, forwarded an apology for absence to the monthly meeting of the directors of the Southland A. and P. Association yesterday. The president (Mr A. S. Holms) expressed regret that this had been occasioned by 'ill-health and hoped that he would soon recover. Reference to the death of Mr W. Dynes Fulton, the late deputy-chair-man of the New Zealand Dairy Produce Board, was made by the chairman, Mr John Dunlop, at yesterday’s conference of the Southland ward. Mr Dunlop praised Mr Fulton’s work on behalf of the industry and his many gifts. The memory of the deceased was honoured in the customary manner.

Mr P. C. Neill, of “Chingford,” NorthEast Valley, Dunedin, has resigned from the Board of Directors of the Trustees, Executors, and Agency Company of New Zealand, Ltd., on which he has served continuously since the company’s inception 54 years ago. The vacancy created has been filled by the appointment of his son, Mr Redmond B. Neill, of Barrosa, Mount Somers, South Canterbury.

Mr A. S. Holms, of Waimahaka, president of the Southland A. and P. Association, was at yesterday’s meeting of the association congratulated on his appointment as Government nominee on the Meat Board. “Though we have often complained about what they have done the Meat Board is made up of a fine body of men,” Mr David Marshall said when moving a motion of congratulation, “and it will not be weakened by the addition of our president. He has thoroughly deserved the appointment.”

Mr I. G. Martin, of the Gore staff of the Bank of New Zealand, has received a transfer to the Palmerston office and was met by his Gore associates at an informal farewell gathering last evening, when the opportunity was taken to bid him farewell and. extend good wishes for his future success. The manager, Mr James A. Hunter, presided and expressed the regret of the staff at the departure of Mr Martin, who had earned the esteem of his fellow officers. In wishing him every success he asked him to accept a leather suitcase with the best wishes of the staff. Mr J. G. Conolly, accountant, spoke in similar strain and Mr Martin briefly replied.

Two Southlanders attending the school of engineering at Canterbury College did well last year. They were Messrs Hugh and Gordon Macdonald, sons of Mr Herbert Macdonald, formerly in business in Esk street, and grandsons of the late Mr T. M. Macdonald. Mr Hugh Macdonald, the elder, graduated as Bachelor of Civil Engineering in 1933. In 1934 he took the electrical course and was the only student to obtain honours. As the best student of the year, he won the British General Electric Company’s exhibition. He proceeded to England this year. His brother, Gordon, also gained a bachelorship of civil engineering, being allotted 100 per cent, in one subject. For the past two years he has been at river work in the reconstruction camp on the Waimakariri driver.

The death occurred in Wellington last week-end, in her eighty-fifth year, of Mrs P. Mclntyre, who was one of the earliest white children bom in the Waitati district She was the second daughter of two pioneer settlers, Mr and Mrs Walter Miller, late of Roxburgh Station, Mount Stuart, and until about two years ago had enjoyed remarkable health and mental vigour. Her husband, who predeceased her by more than 30 years, was an audit inspector in the service of the Government, and was stationed for the greater part of his life in Wellington. Mrs Mclntyre was a very well-informed woman, and was keenly interested in politics, being a familiar figure in the ladies’ gallery when the House was in session. She had no children, but leaves one brother, Mr Andrew Miller, of Invercargill, who is the last survivor of a family of nine.