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Southland Times, Issue 25311, 14 June 1935, Page 6

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Miss Frances J. Allen, of Gore, has been appointed assistant mistress at the Arrdwtown School.

Latest guests at the Grand Hotel include Messrs J. B. Palmer W. Terry and K. G. Begg, all of Wellington. Miss V. A. Fox, matron at Lome Infirmary, has been appointed matron of the Seddon Memorial Hospital, Gere. Mr Norman Fraser, agricultural editor of the Auckland Weekly News, and formerly of Invercargill, is visiting the city on his annual holiday. Mr lan Graham has been appointed sole teacher at the Garston School. Mr Graham has been on the teaching stair of the Otago Education Board. Mr P. S. Hickey, supervisor of the Telegraph Department at the Gore Post Office, has received notice of his transfer on promotion to Christchurch. Mr T. Golden, chairman of the Southland Hospital Board, was at yesterday’s meeting of the board reappointed .the board’s representative on the Waipiata Sanatorium Committee.

At the monthly meeting of the council of the Southland Acclimatization Society last evening Mr Arthur Hamilton was appointed the association’s representative on the Southland League.

Miss Thelma McCarthy, at present technician in the Christchurch Hospital laboratory, was at yesterday s meeting of the ' Southland Hospital Board appointed bacteriological technician at the Southland Hospital. Congratulatory references to the success of Sister E. Bridges in gaining the Florence Nightingale Memorial Scholarship were made at yesterday’s meeting of the Southland Hospital Board. Several members paid tribute to her both personally and professionally. Major Anne Gordon, -Commissioned officer in the Salvation Army for 37 years will retire next month, states an Auckland Press Association message. For 25 years she has been a social worker in Auckland and she is a. familiar figure at the Police Court, interceding on behalf of women and girls. She has been women’s probation officer since 1921. She will be succeeded byAdjutant H. Hart, of Taranaki.

The Public Service Commissioner announced yesterday that Mr G. W. Clinkard, secretary to the Department of Industries and Commerce and General Manager of the Department of Tourists and Publicity, has been appointed Trade and Tourist Commissioner for New Zealand in Europe, with headquarters at Brussels. Mr Clinkard’s present duties will be taken over by Mr L. J. Schmitt, at present New Zealand Trade and Tourist Commissioner in Australia, who will be succeeded there by Mr W. Taylor, Assistant Accountant to the Treasury, Wellington.—Press Association message.

The death occurred at Gore on Wednesday of Mrs Jessie Williamson, wife of Mr George J. Williamson, Broughton street, Gore, following a long illness. Mrs Williamson was a daughter of the late Mr and Mrs Robert Couperthwaite, being born at Otaraia in 1880. She was married to Mr Williamson in 1908 and lived for a time at Waikaka and later at Waikaka Valley, removing to Gore in 1916. She lived very quietly, devoting herself to her home and family, of whom there are two sons and three daughters, who with her husband survive her. The members of the family are Messrs Alexander and Donald Williamson and Misses Jean, Charlotte and Gladys Williamson, all of Gore. Mrs Williamson is also survived by three sisters,' Mesdames A. J. Cruickshank (Mataura), T. Falconer (Gore) and W. Donald (Maitland), and one brother, Mr A. Couperthwaite (Christchurch).

The appointment was made on Wednesday of the Rev. Father Maurice Dowling, S.M., 8.A., as rector of St. Bede’s College. Father Dowling will be in charge of the school during the absence of the Rev. Father A. L. Burger, who will be one of the three representatives of the Australian and New Zealand province of the Marist Order at the General Chapter in Rome this year. Father Burger will probably be away from New Zealand for six months. Father Dowling, who has been on the staff of St. Bede’s since his ordination in 1923, was born in Wellington in 1897, and was educated at the Convent, Stratford, at the Marist Brothers’ School, Wanganui, and, from 1913 to 1916, at St. Patrick’s College, Wellington. He entered the Marist Seminary at Greenmeadows in 1917, and remained there until 1923, when he was ordained. He joined the staff of St. Bede’s in 1924, and has been there since teaching French and other subjects. In 1928 he graduated B.A. at Canterbury University College. Father Dowling is a brother of the Rev. Father John Dowling, the present rector of St. Patrick’s College, Silverstream.