ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 18838, 3 June 1920, Page 5

ABOUT PEOPLE

Dr Stanley Brown, formerly medical superintendent. of the Southland Hospital, who has been away on military duty for some eighteen months, arrived in Invercargill last night.

The death of Captain Henry Pisk at the age of 78 years is reported by a Wellington Press Association telegram. Captain Pisk was one of the best known mariners on the New Zealand coast.

The Presbyterian Foreign Missions Committee has received advice by cable that Miss McEwun, Miss Prentice, and Miss Jean McNeur left Canton on May 25 for New Zealand.

A London Press Association cable states that the internationl Red Cross at Geneva awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal toSister Mac Lean. matron-in-chief of the New Zealand Army Nursing Service. Advice has been received from Wellington that Sister A. Seat ell, late of Invercargill, and now of King George’s Hospital, Rotorua, is to proceed to Government House on June 9 to receive from the Governor-Gen-eral the Roval Red Cross.

j Colonel Foljambc, nephew and heir-pre- ! sumptive of Lord Liverpool, Governori General of New Zealand, who was recently | injured while riding over hurdles, and had i to have a leg amputated, was making splendid progress towards recovery when the last I mail left England. | Three Royal birthdays will be celebrated j during the visit of the Prince of Wales to i Australia. The day of his arrival in Mel- ■ bourne. May 26, was the fifty-third birthday ! ol Queen Mary; June 3 is the King’s fifty- | fifth birthday. On June 23 the twenty-sixth j anniversary of the Prince's own birthday, ha | will arrive in Launceston.

The Dolphin and Guild Gazette, the journal of the Imperial Merchant Guild, announces the death from heart failure of Captain E. Barker Thornbcr, who was a well-known officer of the New Zealand Shipping Company some years ago. He retired from the sea to take up the business of a nautical instructor, and he was subsequently appointed Principal of the Navigation Department of the Robert Gordon Technical College at Aberdeen,

Mr R. G. Thomson, a well-known journalist, passed away at Dannevirke on Sunday after a few months’ illness. The deceased gentleman had many friends in Dunedin. He was engaged for a considerable period as a reporter on the staffs of both of the daily papers and in 1900 was appointed to the Hansard staff—a position he filled with marked ability for more than 20 sessions of Parliament.

A change has boon made in the board which is to consider the E.E.C.A. Railway dispute. Mr W. D. Hunt, one of the association nominees, is leaving for England, and is unable to act. His place is being taken by Mr J. T. Martin, of the firm of Wright, Stephenson and Co. The hearing of the dispute will he commenced at Wellington early (his week. One of the West Coast pioneers, in the person of Mr ,lames Khind, died at the Grey River Hospital last Thursday. Deceased, who was: 77 years of age, was a native of Elginshire, Scotland, and came out to New Zealand 51 years ago. lie followed the occupation of a miner, and was associated with the various gold rushes, eventually settling at Moonlight, where he resided His Excellency the Governor-General haa been advised (says a Wellington Press Association telegram), that His Majesty the King has been graciously pleased on thg occasion of His Majesty’s birthday to confer upon Mr John Roberts, G.M.G., of Dunedin, the honour of Knight Bachelor; and upon Mr Thomas Nod Brodrick, 0.8. E., Under-Secretary of the Lands and Survey Department, Wellington, the honour of Companion of the Imperial Service Order.

Colonel T. A. Hunter, who had charge of the dental services of the New Zealand Expeditionary Loire, lias been appointed director of the Dental Department being established for giving free dental examination and treatment to school children, saya a Wellington Press Association telegram. The appointment of Colonel Hunter was first made some lime ago, hut as complaints were made by other members of the profession about the position being given to him without competition being invitefi, he resigned. He has now been reappointed. Manawalu loses one of its most picturesque and loyal native chiefs with the death of liar? Rakcna Tc Awe Awe, head of the Kangitano Tribe, of the Rangiotu district. The deceased, who died last week, after a four-months’ illness, was a fine type of Maori, prominent with his tribe in fighting for the Government, against the unruly rebels of the early days, when he was awarded the New Zealand war medaj for his services. Deceased, who was a widower, was a son of Waircinu Kingi, chief of the Rangitanes, and will be succeeded in the chieftainship by h;s well-known sou, Manamaroa Te Awe Awe.

On Tuesday the death occurred at her residence in Nith street of Mrs Jessie Annie McKenzie, the widow of the late Police Sergeant John C. McKenzie, who died at Gore in Hill. .Mrs McKenzie who, while her husband was in the police force, had lived at Outran), Lumsden, Queenstown, Gisborne, Auckland and Gore, and since the death of Mr McKenzie, in Invercargill was born at Perth, Scotland, in 18d0. She came to New Zealand as a young woman ami was married in Dunedin. Three sous and two daughters survive, namely Mr Donald Fraser McKenzie, engineer on the Te Anau Lake steamer; Mr John A. McKenzie, manager of the National .Mortgage and Agency Company at Grcymoulh ; Mr Hector C. McKenzie, postal department, Oamaru ; Mra Trugear, Dunedin, and Miss Violet McKenzie, of the South school staff. Mrs McKenzie was of a quiet, genial nature and had made many friends.