ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 18842, 7 June 1920, Page 5

ABOUT PEOPLE

Mr H. P. Young (Orepuki) has been appointed to represent the Southland teachers on the Board of Appeal. A Nelson Press Association telegram reports the death of Mr Alfred Greenfield, formerly a stipendiary magistrate in various parts of the Dominion. Mr Greenfield occupied many of the most prominent positions in Nelson’s early history, including Provincial Secretary and Treasurer, Stipendiary Magistrate, and Commissioner of Crown Lands, and was a settler of over 70 years’ standing. The funeral was largely attended.

The death occurred in the Dunedin Hospital recently of Fireman Harry Cornwell, a member of the Dunedin Fire Brigade. Hei was a returned soldier, having served for* four years in France with the New Zealand Tunnelling Corps. He had been attached to the Dunedin Brigade for about twelve months. He was a native of Portsmouth, and a cousin of Jack Cornwell, the Navy hero, who gained the V.C., at the Battle of Jutland. He had no relatives in New Zealand. Three of his brothers were killed while on active service with the British Army during the great war. The death occurred at Wellington last week of an army veteran, Mr David Kennedy, formerly of Dundee, Scotland. As a young man the late Mr Kennedy was in the 42nd Highlanders, and saw active service abroad. At the Ashanti war he was with that portion of the famous Black Watch Regiment chosen to assist the explorer, the late Sir H. M. Stanley, in his search for Emin Pasha. Mr Kennedy spent the later years of his life in this dominion, though being still keen td “do his bit,” he twice journeyed to his native country during the great war to do war work. Mr Kennedy leaves a widow and a family of three daughters and three sons, one of the latter bemg Mr Peter Kennedy, of Christchurch. Mr John Prouse holds a unique record in the domain of oratorio (says the Dominion). It is very doubtful if there are many baritone vocalists living who could boast that they have sung the role of the prophet in Mendelssohn’s “Elijah” fifty-three times in about forty years. This has been made possible by his having been engaged to sing the role in several places in one year, as often happens with soloists in New Zealand. But Mr Prouse’s efforts have not been confined to New Zealand. He has sung the strenuous music in “Elijah,” not only in New Zealand centres and sub centres, but also in Sydnley, Melbourne and on one occasion in the Albert Hall, London, where his fine interpretation (the fruit of special study under the late Sir Charles Santley and Sir Henry Wood) commanded attention. Mr Prouse also toured the United Kingdom with Kubelik, and Australasia with Mdlle. Antonia Dolores.

A visitor to Wellington recently was Captain H. W. Kenrick, 0.8. E., R.D., R.N.R., who during the war was a naval reserve officer attached to the Admiralty, War, and Naval Staffs in Whitehall, in the respective capacities of technical adviser in mercantile marine to the trade division of the Naval Staff and Admiralty Shipping Intelligence officer of the Port of London (for a period of nearly five years). Captain Kenrick also carried out the duties of a port convoy officer for London during the earlier stages, following the introduction of the convoy system in the late summer of 1917. As soon as the main trade routes were swept clear of mines towards the end of August, 1919, Captain Kenrick reverted to the retired list from the Admiralty (in September last), and feeling in great need of rest and change, mads a trip out to Australia, whence after a six months’ stay he is returning to England, to rejoin the service of the P. and O. Co. Previous to the outbreak of war he was in command of one of the Imperial troopships, tha Soudan. Anxious to see the Panama Canal, he is crossing the Pacific instead of returning via Suez.