ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 18821, 14 May 1920, Page 5

ABOUT PEOPLE

Mr Charles S. Rush, business manager o| the Manawatu Daily Times Company, is on a visit to Invercargill. At its meeting yesterday, the Southland Hospital and C. Aid Board appointed Miss Mabel Clark as office assistant. A London Press Association message states that Admiral Lord Beatty will be the guest of honour at the West Australian dinner early in June. A London Press Association cable states that Colonel L. S. Amery, Under-Secretary for the Colonies, is to visit Canada and the West Indies. Mr C. E. Matthews, Inspector of Prisons, arrived in Invercargill yesterday and will leave for the north again to-day. He is staying at the Grand Hotel. General Birdwood, and Lady Birdwood and their daughter will visit New Zealand next month and during his stay he will be the guest of the Government. He will bo in the Dominion till about the middle of July. Mr Michael Frederick Cahill, of. Ilford, Essex, a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Judicature in England, has been appointed by the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Mr R. Hyslop, Inspector of Permanent Ways for Invercargill, has been transferred to Oamaru and leaves to take up his new position at an early date. On Saturday evening Mr Hyslop will be tendered a farewell social by the members of the local railway staffs. Mr Hyslop will be succeeded in Invercargill by Mr Fraser, of Timaru. After the armistice, Mr Arnold Hore, of Wellington, who was a sergeant in th« N.Z.E.F., was appointed to take charge of the civil audit at headquarters, London. On the retirement of Mr T. H. Hamer, audit officer to the High Commissioner’s office in London, Mr Hore, who temporarily combined both positions, has been appointed audit officer. Mr James Storey, who resides at Evansdale, has a worthy record as a soldier (says the Otago Daily Times). Mr Storey, who is now 90 years of age, enlisted in th« British regular army when he was 19 years of age, and went right through the Crimean war. He fought in the battles of Alma, Inkerman, and Sebastopol, and was rewarded with three medals —one Turkish and two British, with three bars. Mr W. D. Hunt leaves on a trip for England early in June. His trip ■mil extend over six months and during that time he also intends to visit Holland, the home of the Friesian breed, of which he is one of the leading breeders in New Zealand. H* intends to return via America where he also expects to inspect prominent herds. It is anticipated that he will bring some high class stock back to the Dominion. Nominations for the vacancy on the Land Board, occasioned by the expiry of Mr James King’s term as a member, closed yesterday afternoon. Mr King, who wai eligible for re-election, was again nominated and the following nominations were also received:—Messrs James Carnegie Gardner, Clifden; James Hargest, Mandeville; and Denis James Heenan, Nightcaps. A New Plymouth Press Association telegram states that prior to resuming the Supreme Court business yesterday morning Mr Justice Chapman unveiled a portrait of Sir George Arney, presented by Mr Henry Weston, to the local Law Society. Sir George Arney was Chief Justice from 1858 to 1875, and for some years a member of the Legislative Council. He died in England in 1883.

Captain L. Macintosh Ellis, newly-appoin-ted Director of Forestry for New Zealand, and Mr Turner, Secretary of the Department, are at present in the south engaged in the preliminary work of inspecting the various forest reserves and getting into touch with the people most closely interested. They left Dunedin on Tuesday morning for the Gatlins district, and thereafter will make their way to the Southland forests, and during the return journey visit the southern and Central Otago plantations.

A prominent resident of Petone, Mr Henry Findlay, died last week. Mr Findlay was born at White Hills, Banffshire, Scotland, sixty years ago, and came to New Zealand in 1881, settling at Petone, where he carrad on the business of a building contractor. In 1888 he re-visited Scotland, where he was married. For many years he served Petone on the Borough Council, and was well-known for his progressive ideals. Ho was a prominent member of the local bowling club. His death was somewhat unexpected, although ho had been suffering from heart trouble for some time. He leaves a widow and three daughters and one son.

Mrs R. T. Search, who during the war was so prominently connected with all patriotic work in Invercargill, was yesterday afternoon the guest of the members of the various societies with which she was associated. Mrs D. McFarlane presided over a gathering of about 50 friends of the guest and in presenting Mrs Searell with a leather handbag made by the returned soldiers at the Convalescent Home made reference to the active interest the guest had taken in the Plunket Society, Hospital Saturday Association, Prisoners’ Aid Society, Soldiers’ Parcels and war work generally. Members of all these bodies also made complimentary reference to the guest’s zeal as a workir. The Returned Soldiers’ Association forwarded an apology for the absence of a representative. Mrs Searell suitably replied. Mr Robert Cochrane Wilson, whose death occurred on Saturday under tragic circumstances, was a well-known Dunedin resident. He reached Christchurch on Wednesday last, and was spending a few days with his son, Mr H. G. Wilson, before proseeding to Sydney to see another son who recently returned from France, where ha was wounded three times and was decorated for bravery. Mr Wilson, who was nearly 70 years of age, arrived in Dunedin with iris parents in the early sixties. Ha carried on building operations throughout Australia and New Zealand for many years, until his retirement from business five years ago. He had been a member of the Dunedin Drainage Board and the Mornington Borough Council. In his younger days Mr Wilson took a keen interest in Masonic affairs, and was a Past Master of the Craft. He leaves a widow, three sons (one of whom is Mr Horace Wilson, assistant accountant in the Public Trust Office, Christchurch), and three married daughters. The Hon. J. G. Coates, whose most important portfolio amongst a number is that of Public Works, arrived at Gore by train fiom Dunedin yesterday accompanied by his private secretary (Mr T. R. Aicken) and Mr A. J. Baker (District Engineer). After inspecting the flood protection works in course of erection at Gore, Mr Coates and a party of those interested were motored as far as' Te Tipua in order to see the land through which it is suggested that the proposed Gorc-Hedgehope railway should run. After a deputation bad been heard, a return was made to Mataura where another denutation waited on the Minister. He then motored to Invercargill accompanied by tho Hon. G. J. Anderson, Minister of Internal Affairs. The Mayor of Gore (Mr A. Martin) accompanied the party throughout the trip in the Gore district. To-day Mr Coates will leave for Dunedin after visiting the Borstal Institute in his capacity of Minister in Charge of Prisons. He will go on to Christchurch on Saturday and to the West Coast on Monday.