LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 December 1931, Page 6

LATE LOCALS.

Jumping from an aeroplane at an altitude of 1400 feet in th e stiff northwesterly wind, a parachutist, PilotOfficer J. ;S. Fraser, gave a thrill to a crowd of about 1000 people at the Wigram Aerodrome op Saturday afternoon. Mr Fraser fell for nearly 1000 feet before he opened his .parachute. He landed about a quarter of a mile to 'the west of the aerodrome.

The late Archdeacon Wooclthorpe whose death tcok place at Sydney on Sunday was in Christchurch as vio tr of St John’s, Latimer Squi re,, a cure he held from 1902 to 1905. He had been connected with the diocese •s early as 1892, when he came to the Dominion from New South Wales a s curate, at Kumara. In 1894 he. was appointed chaplain to the Mauri Mission in the diocese, and in 1898 went to Ashburton as vicar. His Excellent scholastic attainments, however, were ;oon availed of, and he became warden of Selwyn College, Dunedin, a position he filled until 1917, when lie, ac-> •epted the chair of history, and later; that of economics at the University: ‘n the meantime lie had been appointed canon of St. Paul’s. His'.pubtications include “The- Rise, Progress ■•lid Present Prospects ol the C hi'ist- ; !)n Church.” ‘‘The Philosophical Basis of Economics,” and Moral and Social Evolution.’’ , ,

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