ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 18835, 31 May 1920, Page 5

ABOUT PEOPLE

A Press Association message states that Mr JF. J. RoUeston has been elected chairman of the Tjmaru Harbour Board for the ninth consecutive term.

The Rev. H. C. Gaut, of Waianiwa, has received information that his wife and family are passengers on the Arawa which is due at Auckland on June 17. Mr Gaut has been in New Zealand 18 months. A London Press Association cable states that Dr J. T. Wilson Challis, Professor of Anatomy at Sydney University, has been elected to the Professorship of Anatomy at Cambridge.

Mr Ernest Gillon, chief mechanical engineer of the Railway Department, who accompaned the Prince of Wales during his New Zealand tour, was piesented by His Royal Highness with a solid silver cigarette case in recognition of the excellent train arrangements made and carried out by the Department.

The final batch of New Zealand members of the Royal Air Force returned to New Zealand by the lonic, They were; Captain P. Fowler of Feilding; Captain M. Buckley, of Fairlie; Lieutenant G. Hood, Masterton; Lieutenant C. H. Noble-Gampbell, Napier; Lieutenant Clarence Umbers, Dunedin; Lieutenant C. Dolhn Smith, of England; Lieutenant H. Smith, of Pahiatua and Lady Administrator Shortridge, of the Women’s Royal Air Force.

On the occasion of his departure from Invercargill for the north, Mr George Findlay, a well-known commercial traveller, was entertained by some of his intimate friends on Saturday evening. During the evening Mr A. McNeil, the chairman, referred to the guest’s many good qualities and wished him the best of health and prosperity, and asked his acceptance of a silver pocket flask and a wad of notes. All present supported the chairman's remarks. Mr Findlay feelingly acknowledged the present and the kind remarks made by the speakers. He expressed regret at leaving Invercargill, where he b«d many iue long friends. Mr William Fcrtescue, of Picton, celebrated his 103 rd birthday on Monday last. He was the recipient of many felicitrdons on the record achieved, and upon being in such an excellent condition of health. Mr Forteccue arrived in New Zealand in 1840, landing at l*etone, where he acted as storekeeper for the New Zealand Land Company. Later on he went to Marlborough, arriving just after the Wuirau massacre. He joined the throng at Gabriel’s Gully at the time, of the rush, and followed the golden vein, particularly at Mahakipawa, until recent years. Upon Doing presented to U.R.H. the Prince of Wales at Picton recently, tne lively old man remarked; “Yes, 1 remember your father, your grandfather, and your greatgranoiainer, too; and I also lived in the reign of George III.”

Major-General Sir Alexander Bruce TuLloch, whose death occurred in London recently, was born in Edinburgh on September 2, 1838, and entered the army in 1855. He served in the Crimea, 1855-56; India, 1857-58; China campaign, 1859-60; the Egyptian campaign, 138..'; and also for the Intelligence Department wi hj the Spanish Army during the Carlist war in the Pyrenees, in 1874. Whilst in China he served as an acting-engineer hi a gunboat expedition. He was requested by the King of the Belgians to undertake General Gordon’s work in Cen ral Africa when that officer was shut up in Khartoum, but this was not sanctioned by tbe War Office. He was Mjtjor-General commanding the Victorian military forces, General Military Adviser to the Australian States, and president of the Royal Commission on Defence Organisation, Sydney, 1892. He also served as war correspondent for The Times in Manchuria in 1904. He was tbe author of several intererting books, incluffing "Recollections of Forty Years’ Service,” and “A Soldier’s Sailoring.”