ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 22732, 7 November 1935, Page 4

ABOUT PEOPLE

Mr A. J. Hamilton left by the express yesterday morning for Christchurch, where he will represent the Southland Cricket Association at the biennial meeting of the New Zealand Cricket Council.

Mr R. H. Nesbitt, Australian Trade Commissioner in New Zealand, who recently underwent a minor operation in Auckland, has made a good recovery, and has left the private hospital in which he was a patient. He is now convalescing in Auckland. He expects to leave on Friday for Wellington and to leave Wellington next Tuesday for Christchurch.

It was announced at a meeting of the Wellington Navy League (states a Press Association telegram) that Vice-Ad-miral J. E. T. Harper will be visiting New Zealand in a month’s time. ViceAdmiral Harper is an old boy of Christ’s College and he has not been in New Zealand since he was a midshipman 42 years ago. He was the first New Zealander to reach flag rank in the naval service. He will arrive in Wellington on December 4, and his visit will last till the end of February.

Mr T. C. Hobbs Jones, the new chairman of the Auckland Centre of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association, has had a long and interesting association with the administrative side of swimming in several districts. He was for many years secretary and treasurer of the Napier Swimming Club and Hawkes Bay Centre; vice-presi-dent of the Lyall Bay Surf Club; a member of the Wellington Centre; vicepresident of the Opawa Club, Christchurch; and for two years he represented Southland on the New Zealand Swimming Council. Mr H. D. Brass, a member of the reporting staff of the Press (Christchurch) for about five years, and recently Parliamentary representative, who has accepted a position in Australia, was met by members of the literary staff on Tuesday afternoon, and was presented with an electric clock by the editor, Mr P. H. N. Freeth. Mr Freeth said that Mr Brass had early been one of the most promising members of the staff, and had fulfilled that promise. He congratulated- him on being chosen to join the staff of the Argus in Melbourne and wished him every success in his new sphere. Mr R. V. White, the chief sub-editor, said that he was glad that Mr Brass had got this chance and also wished him good luck. Mr Brass replied. Mr Brass left for Wellington on Tuesday night, and leaves for Australia to-day. Mr Brass began his literary career on the staff of the Southland Times.