ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 22767, 18 December 1935, Page 4

ABOUT PEOPLE

Messrs L. O. Low (Wellington), C. Rollandson (Wellington), F. W. Beals (Christchurch) and Dr A. Kidd (Waipiata) are at the Grand Hotel. Messrs R. Edwards (Auckland), R. White (Christchurch), R. H. Neyill (Christchurch), H. Eckhoff, D. Riley, M. McKinlay, R. Crawford, J. Craig and A. G. Douglas, all of Dunedin, are at the Club Hotel. At last night’s meeting of the Invercargill City Council Councillor A. W. Jones, who proposes making a short trip to America, was granted leave of absence from the council committee meetings during the month of January. He will be accompanied by Messrs G. J. Reed and G. Tapper. The death occurred at her residence, St. Kilda, Dunedin, on Monday, of Mrs Mabel Robert. She was the youngest daughter of the late Mr and Mrs James Purvis, of Kaiwera, Eastern Southland, and spent her earliest years in that district. On August 11, 1908, she married Mr William Robert, of Warepa, and for some years lived in the Taranaki district, returning to Dunedin in 1925. She leaves a husband and two sons. Professor W. Riddet, Dean of Dairying at Massey Agricultural College and Director of the New Zealand Dairy Research Institute, will leave Palmerston North in February to spend a year travelling abroad and making investigations under the visitors’ grant recently awarded him by the Carnegie Corporation. He will visit America, Europe, and India, and during his absence Dr H. R. Whitehead will carry out his duties. Mr J. J. W. Pollard, who is leaving Invercargill shortly, was entertained on Monday afternoon by the executive of the Invercargill Orphans’ Club, of which he has been an active member for many years. In making a presentation of a travelling companion, Mr Charles Campbell spoke warmly of Mr Pollard’s versatile interest in the club, and of his abilities as an entertainer and an official. His departure would mean a very definite loss to several departments of the community life of the city. The Massey Agricultural College Council has appointed Mr J. P. E. Duncan, M.Agr., Sc., a former student of the college, who has been on the staff of the Gisborne High School as agricultural instructor for the last year, a research assistant in special investigations being carried out at the college. A grant has been made available for the particular work by the Romney Marsh Sheepbreeders’ Association, the Meat Board, and the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. It was resolved by the Invercargill City Council last night to forward its congratulations both to Mr M. P. Davin (recently selected as a Rhodes scholar) and to his parents on the honour he had brought to Invercargill. In moving a motion to that effect, Councillor H. Ritchie said that Mr Davin had proved himself a brilliant student and his selection as a Rhodes scholar was a compliment both to Invercargill and to the Marist Brothers’ School which he attended. The Mayor (Mr John Miller) and Councillor A. W. Jones endorsed Councillor Ritchie’s remarks and the motion was carried unanimously. Reference to the death of Mr P. A. de la Perrelle was made by his Worship the Mayor (Mr John Miller) at last night’s meeting of the Invercargill City Council. Mr Perrelle, said the Mayor, had been a notable Southlander and both as Member of Parliament for Awarua and as a former Cabinet minister in the Coalition Government had always readily co-operated with the Member for Invercargill in doing everything possible to further the interests of the city. He was a very likeable and a very useful man and his loss would be a severe one to the whole province. It was resolved, on the motion of the Mayor, that a letter of sympathy be sent to the widow and family, and as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased councillors stood in silence.