ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 22774, 27 December 1935, Page 6

ABOUT PEOPLE

Mr A. H. Yates, of Wellington, is spending the holidays with his parents in Invercargill. Mr G. R. Baillie, of General Motors New Zealand Ltd., Petone, left by the Maunganui on a business visit to the United States. Mr I. D. Jack, solicitor in the Public Trust office, Invercargill, has been promoted to the position of assistant solicitor at Wellington. Mr H. J. Brass, manager of the Masterton branch of the A.M.P. Society, is at present on a holiday visit to Invercargill. He is staying with his parents in Avenal road. Messrs W. Baird, and G. Rough, sen, and G. Rough, jun., all of Foxton, arrived in Invercargill by the express last evening. They are guests at the Grand Hotel. Mr C. L’Estrange, who has been in charge of the statistical branch of the head office of the Customs Department, Wellington, for the last 15 years, has been appointed examining officer at Dunedin. The Postmaster-General (the Hon. F. Jones), with Mrs Jones and family, is due to-day at Bluff, where a brief holiday will be spent. While at the port they will be the guests of Mr and Mrs J. D. Ballantyne, of the Golden Age Hotel. Miss Winifred Stenhouse, head of the foods and cookery department of the Home Science Faculty, Otago University, has been appointed director of the new College of Domestic Science in Sydney, and will leave to take up her duties early next month. Mr L. J. Greenberg, general secretary of the Wellington Young Men’s Christian Association, is visiting Christchurch. He will leave on Saturday with a party of 44 young men from Wellington on a 1000-mile tour of the South Island. The party will return to Christchurch on January 3 and leave for Wellington the next evening. Mr A. W. Tucker, M.A., B.Sc., who was formerly on the staffs of the Christchurch and Dunedin Training Colleges, and headmaster of the Geraldine District High School for the past three years, has been appointed headmaster of the Marton District High School in the Wanganui Education Board’s district. Mr Tucker was attached to the Army Education Department in England after the war.

Dr. Wolfram Penseler, who for some time has been in charge of the Austral Malay Tin Company’s drilling operations in the Cromwell district, on the lower reaches of the Clutha, has completed the work and left Cromwell on Tuesday morning en route to Sydney, where he will make his final report to the directors on the Clutha proposition. From Sydney, Dr. Penseler will sail for Singapore, en route to Taiping, Malay, where he will direct the company’s operations on 10 areas. Mr William Watson, chairman of the Bank of New Zealand, received many congratulations on his eighty-ninth birthday on Monday. Mr Watson, who was born in Sutherlandshire in 1846, began his banking career as a lad in the Caledonian Bank. In 1868 he joined the staff of the Oriental Banking Company, and as an officer of that institution he served in Ceylon and China. His connection with banking in New Zealand goes a long way back, for in 1886 he was appointed chief inspector of the Colonial Bank of New Zealand, which then had its headquarters in Dimedin. Mr Watson’s health is remarkably good, and to-day his interest in his profession is as keen as it ever was.

Mr John George Sutherland, who died at his residence, Main street, Mataura, on Christmas Day after a long illness, was born on June 3, 1866, at Invercargill, where he received his education. After leaving school he took up farming at Hedgehope, where he worked for some years, and prior to removing to the Crookston district he married Miss Annie Cowie, of Winton. Following a residence of 16 years at Crookston and four years at Milton, Mr Sutherland and his family purchased the property at Mataura which he successfully farmed till his death. In his early days Mr Sutherland took a keen interest in athletics and was a prominent and successful competitor at the meetings throughout the province and in his time won many trophies for running and bushcraft events. Apart from his family and business interests his chief hobby was the study of politics. He served for several terms on the Borough Council, of which he was chairman of the Works Committee for a term. It was during this period that the tar-sealing operations on several highways were completed. While his health permitted he was a frequent attender at the Mataura Presbyterian Church. He is survived by his widow and a family of nine, five daughters— Mesdarnes I. Copland (Invercargill), E. Vial (Christchurch) and A. F. Reid (Wellington) and Misses Ella Sutherland (Winton) and Chrissie Sutherland (Mataura) —four sons, Messi's John, Bruce and Munro Sutherland (Mataura), and Stanley Sutherland (Christchurch). —Mataura correspondent.