PERSONAL

Southland Times, Issue 22833, 6 March 1936, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr W. Grindlay returned to Bluff yesterday after a holiday in Dunedin. Messrs F. C. Renyard and G. V. Wild, of the Education Department, Wellington, are in Invercargill at present on departmental business. General Sir Cyril N. Macmullen, G.C.8., C.M.G., C.1.E., D. 5.0., Com-mander-in-Chief of the Eastern Command, of India, is at present visiting Major Mackenzie at Walter Peak station, Queenstown. Mr J. C. McDonald has been appointed to fill the vacancy on the staff of the Southland Technical College caused by Mr T. J. Cushen’s death. Mr McDonald received his training in Invercargill and has taught as a student teacher at the college. As a result of Mr McDonald’s appointment, Mr W. E. Mclndoe, who was Mr Cushen’s associate for 12 years, has been promoted. Mr Arthur Henry Adams, the wellknown author and poet, who died in Sydney on Wednesday, was born on June 27, 1872, at Lawrence, Otago, and was educated at the Otago High School and at Otago University, from which he graduated B.A. He began the study of law, but took up journalism and went through the Boxer rebellion in China as a war correspondent. After three years spent in London in contributing to magazines and newspapers, he returned to New Zealand, where he was engaged in journalism. Later he became editor of the “Red Page” of the Bulletin, Sydney, and of the “Lone Hand.” He was on the literary staff of the Sydney Sun, and later returned to the Bulletin. As well as several volumes of verse, he wrote dramas which have been produced in Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide, and one, “Mrs Pretty and the Premier,” in London. Mr Robert Paterson, whose death has occurred in Queenstown, was the second youngest son of the late Mr and Mrs Hugh Paterson, of Oamaru. Mr Paterson, who was 70 years of age, met with an accident while felling a tree at his place of residence, this leading ultimately to complications from which he died. For many years Mr Paterson carried on farming at Waikaka; then he went to Dunedin to live for a time. About three years ago he and his wife, a son and a daughter went to the Wakatipu district. Mr Paterson and his son acquired an interest in a mining claim at Moki Creek. He is survived by Mrs Paterson, one son (Mr Stanley Paterson) and three daughters —Mrs R. M. Nicholl (Waikaka Valley), Mrs Sims (Hamilton), and Miss M. Paterson (Queenstown). He also leaves four brothers—Messrs James Paterson (Waikaka), John and George Barr Paterson (Gore) and William Hugh Paterson (Arrowtown) —and a sister— Mrs Mitchell (Gisborne). Mr A. E. Wish, manager for Southland of the flour section of the Wheat Committee, has received advice of his transfer to a similar position in Auckland. As manager for Distributors, Ltd., and since it was merged recently into the present system, of the flour section of the Wheat Committee, he has been stationed in Invercargill for 18 years, and has become a prominent figure in local body affairs. He has taken an active interest particularly in the Automobile Association (Southland), of which he is at present chairman of the road signs committee, the Southland League, and the Invercargill Chamber of Commerce. He is a member also of the Waihopai School Committee, and a prominent figure in the Invercargill Club and the Southern Club. Always an enthusiastic athlete, he was for many years one of Southland’s most valuable club and representative cricketers, and he was active on the administrative side of the game. Golf has been his favourite sport in recent years, and he is a leading member of the Invercargill Golf Club.