ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 22731, 6 November 1935, Page 6

ABOUT PEOPLE

Sir Clutha Mackenzie arrived by train from Gore last evening.

Mr Neil L. Watson left for the north by yesterday morning’s express. Lieutenant Bowes, conductor of the Blind Institute Band, arrived in Invercargill last evening. Miss Mary Monaghan has been appointed infant mistress at Tuatapere. She is at present holding a similar position at the Limehills School.

Messrs T. R. Pryde and T. V. Mahoney have been admitted as barristers of the Supreme Court of New Zealand by his Honour Mr Justice Kennedy. Messrs P. C. Johnston (Wellington), J. Becknell, J. J. Wakefield (Dunedin), M. Fitzgerald and A. J. Moore (Wellington) arrived in Invercargill yesterday and are among the guests at the Grand Hotel.

Messrs H. P. Desmoulins (Dunedin), J. H. Skipworth (Christchurch), A. F. Jagger (Auckland), H. McCormack (Nokomai), A. Cameron (Nokomai), R. F. Taylor (Wellington), and J. Dunn (Dunedin), are among guests at the Club Hotel.

Constable Woods, of Takapuna, Auckland, arrived in Winton on Monday to take up his duties as officer-in-charge of that police district. _ Constable Brydone, who has been relieving officer, has returned to Invercargill.— Winton correspondent. A London Press Association cablegram states that Lady Anderson, wife of Sir Murray Anderson, Governorelect of New South Wales, is a New Zealander. She is a member of a wellknown New Zealand racing family after whom the Teschemaker Stakes were named.

The members of the Moray Place Congregational Church, Dunedin, unanimously decided to- grant leave of absence for several months to the minister, the Rev. Albert Mead, M.A., to enable him to visit England. Arrangements have been made for an exchange between the ministers of the Moray Place Church and the Hendon Church in England for five months as from April next year. To that end the Rev. W. M. Isitt, 8.A., of Hendon, will arrive in Dunedin early in April to take up the full pastoral work of the church, while Mr Mead will go to England to do likewise. Mr Isitt has New Zealand associations.

Superintendent A. T. Emerson, who has been attached to the New Zealand Police Force for 43 years, and who has been stationed at Wellington since 1926, will retire on March 3, 1936, and will enter upon three months’ retiring leave on December 3. Mr Emerson joined the police force at the age of 21 in 1892, and shortly afterwards was sent to Invercargill and later to Arrowtown. He was promoted sergeant in 1906, and was stationed at Dunedin and then at Ashburton. While at the latter town, he reached the rank of senior sergeant in 1915. In 1917 he was transferred to Wellington, and in 1919 he became subinspector. Reaching the rank of inspector two years later, he was transferred to Whangarei to take charge of the police district there. In February, 1926, he was promoted to superintendent and transferred to Wellington.