ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 25310, 13 June 1935, Page 6

ABOUT PEOPLE

Mr A. Cameron, of Nokomai, returned home by car yesterday after a short stay in Invercargill. Mr J. Torrance, of Christchurch, arrived in Invercargill by last evenings express and is a guest at the Club Hotel. Messrs F. C. Johansen, Arthur F. Turnbull, and W. Kibble (all of Wellington) arrived in Invercargill yesterday and are among guests at the Grand Hotel. Mr J. B. Reid leaves by this morning’s express for Wellington, where he will attend the June meeting of the council of the New Zealand Society of Accountants. Mr C. M. Turrell, general manager of the New Zealand Shipping Company, arrived in Dunedin yesterday and will be there until Friday, when he will leave for Invercargill. Mr J. Gorringe, of Wellington, who is to deliver a number of lectures on swine husbandry in Southland centres, arrived in Invercargill yesterday and is a guest at the Club Hotel. Mr J. J. Virgo, C.8.E., chairman of the British Empire Union of Young Men’s Christian Associations, and vicepresident of the English and Scottish National Council of Young Men’s Christian Associations, who is at present engaged on a world tour, will arrive at Wellington on June 24. He will go north on the following day and will leave Auckland for America a few days later. Mr Mawson was born at Purakanui, and receiyed his early education at Port Chalmers. After a brilliant career at the University of Otago, he served for 20 years as a member of the staff of the Canton Village Mission, and on his return to New Zealand in 1923 was given charge by the Presbyterian Church of its Chinese work in the dominion. Five years ago he was appointed foreign mission secretary, with headquarters in Auckland. He went to Wellington a little more than a fortnight ago on church business, and became ill almost I immediately after his arrival. Mr Mawson is survived by his widow, who before her marriage was Miss Gordon, of Marton, also a graduate of the University of Otago, and by two daughters and three sons. The elder daughter is secretary of the Y.W.C.A. in Auckland, and the eldest son is a lecturer of mathematics at the University of Western Australia in Perth. Recently Mr Mawson brought to Southland a band of missionaries who conducted a very successful campaign.