ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 25307, 10 June 1935, Page 6

ABOUT PEOPLE

Constable J. Feeley, of Bluff, leaves to-day for Gore, to which station he has been transferred. The British Medical Association has elected Sir James Barrett president for 1935-36, states a London Press Association cable.

Among guests at the Club Hotel, Bluff, last week were Miss M. Kelly (Gore), Mr J.’McMillan and Mr F. Nevill (Dunedin).

Mr A. P. Harper, of Wellington, who has been paying a brief visit to Invercargill, left on his return to the north by last night’s express. Messrs D. E. S. Mason, H. C. Gimblett and J. H. Doyle were on Friday sworn in by Mr .W. H. Freeman, S.M., at Bluff as Justices of the Peace. The Rev. A. E. Waite (Mayor of Bluff), was sworn in as a Justice of the Peace by Mr W. H. Freeman, S.M., at the Bluff Courthouse on Friday morning.

A message of sympathy with the relatives of the late Mrs E. R. McCombs has been sent by the Mayor of Bluff, the Rev. A. E. Waite, on behalf of the Borough of Bluff.

Mr Charles F. Jones, LL.B., of the Farm Accounting Association of New Zealand, Dunedin, and formerly for several years with Messrs Wilding and Acland, barristers and solicitors, Christchurch', was recently admitted by Mr Justice Kennedy as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court. Mr D. R. Menzies, of the firm of Messrs Clark, Menzies, Griffin and Ross, public accountants and ’auditors, Wellington, has been appointed to the local board of the A.M.P. Society, replacing Sir Harold Beauchamp, who has retired. Mr E. W. A. Kellow, of .Messrs James Kellow and Sons, public accountants, Wellington, will replace Mr Menzies as a branch auditor. The Rev. Father John Higgins, until recently Vice-Rector of St. Patrick’s College, Wellington, and Director of Catholic Social Studies in Wellington, leaves for Canada and the United States in August to attend the Catholic University at Washington for the purpose of further study in the science of sociology and to make fuller acquaintance with modern social problems.