ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 18828, 22 May 1920, Page 5

ABOUT PEOPLE

A Sydney Press Association cable states that the estate of the late Sir Thomas Anderson Stuart is valued at £42,754. A Wellington Press Association telegram states that Mr George Elliott, of Auckland, has been appointed chairman of the conciliation tribunal to consider the Railway Officers’ Institute dispute.

The appointment is gazetted of Mr Percy Muter, F.1.A., London, as Deputy Government Insurance Commissioner, as from May 10, says a Wellington Press Association telegram.

The appointment of Sir Alexander F, Lowe as clerk of the Legislative. Council and Clerk of Parliaments for the Dominion, vice the late Mr Leonard Stowe, C.M.G., is gazetted.

An Auckland Press Association message announces the death from heart disease of Mr Henare Kaihau, M.P., aged 66. Mr Kaihau had represented the Western Maori District in the House of Representatives since 189 G.

Mr Edgar S. Wood, of the Lands and Survey Department, who was recently transferred to Wellington, has accepted an offer from Messrs Hay and Vickerman, and is returning soon to Invercargill to take charge of the draughting work in connection with tho Southland hydro-electric scheme. A Wellington Press Association telegram, states that Sir Joseph Ward and Lady Ward left by the Tofua yesterday for England via America and probably will not return till next year. Sir Joseph gave an emphatic denial to the rumour That he contemplates entering politics at Home. He said that unless something very unusual indeed occurred, he had no such intention. He suggested that electoral reform was one of the things that this Parliament must consider and expressed himself in his usual optimistic style upon the future of the countryThere are a number of noted pressmenl with the Royal party and most of them were present at the reception last night. Mr Keith Murdoch, whose recent reply to Sir lan Hamilton’s attack has aroused world-wide comment, travels with the party as the representative of the London Times. Mr John Sandes, an Australian journalise who has achieved success in Fleet Street and Mr Everard Coates, Reuter’s representative, are also with the party. Dr G. H. Scholefield, Government chronicler; Mr Morgan, Press Association representative; and Mr H. Hector Bolitho, an Auckland writer who has published a number of travel books, were included in the Royal party.

Major James Shelley, R.F.A. (M.A. Cantab), who is now at the War Office School of Instruction, Newmarket, has been appointed to the chair of Professor of Education, Canterbury College (says the London correspondent of the Otago Daily Times). He was educated at Cambridge and is 35 years of age, and by an eminent authority in the education world he is described as the “most original and capable of the youngest school of teachers of education in this country.” He was nominated for hia new position by Professor J. J. Findlay, M.A., Ph.D., University of Manchester. His selectors were Sir Ernest Rutherford, F.R.P., and Mr J. W. Joynt (representative in England of New Zealand University), who were attracted by his modesty, versatile culture, and quiet enthusiasm. It ia thought he will be a great success in New Zealand.