ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 21091, 24 May 1930, Page 6

ABOUT PEOPLE

MINISTERIAL. The Hon. P. A. de la Perrelle, Minister of Internal Affairs, left Wellington last night for Invercargill and Winton. The Minister will attend at the Ministerial rooms, Post Office Buildings, on Monday from 11 to 12 p.m., and from 2.30 p.m., in which he will receive deputations connected with the departments he controls. • Special correspondent. The Hon. G. W. Forbes announced yesterday that Mr F. L. A. Gotz had been appointed General Manager of the New Zealand Reparation Estates ’ in Western Samoa. Mr Gotz, w’ho is at the present time with the Loan and Mercantile Agency Companv, was for a number of years in British Malaya and has an extensive knowledge of plantation work.- —Wellington Press Association message. His Honour Mr Justice Kennedy will leave for Dunedin by car to-day. Mr K. F. Varley Hudson, associate to his Honour Mr Justice Kennedy, will leave for the north to-day. The Rev. J. W. Kemp, president of the Baptist Union of New Zealand, arrives in Invercargill to-day. Mr H. Waymouth (Canterbury College) has received advice that he has been awarded the Engineering Entrance Exhibition for 1929. Mr J. Bruce, who for some years has been engaged in tin dredging in Siam, is at present spending a holiday with his brother, Mr James Bruce, Pyramid. He is accompanied by his wife. Mr A. M. Weir, president of the New Zealand Ayrshire Breeders’ Association, who has been on a visit to Canada to purchase bulls for the purpose of introducing new blood into the New Zealand herds, will return to his home at Edendale by the express to-night. Many residents in the Eastern District will regret to learn of the death at an early hour yesterday morning, of Mr Nicholas Buick, of “Clent Hills” Station, Mount Somers, Canterbury. Mr Buick had been ailing for some time past, and his demise was not unexpected. The deceased had reached the age of 73 years, and at the time of his passing most of the family were near by. Two of his daughters reside in Eastern Southland —Mrs W. Hyne (Gore) and Mrs T. Mcßride (Wyndham). Mrs Buick predeceased her husband about two years ago. There passed away at his residence, Greney’s road, Amberley, an old and respected resident of that district —Mr Henry Thomas Elderton. Born at Clerkenwell, England, in 1852, Mr Elderton sailed with his parents ‘eight years later by the ship Clontarf for New Zealand, and arrived at Lyttelton on March 16, 1860. After having lived in Lyttelton for several years, the Elderton family moved to Rangiora, where Mr Elderton attended the late Mr Charles Merton’s school. When he left school, Mr Elderton went to work for Captain Millton, on Birchhill Station, in the Okuku country. From Birchhill he went to Mr John McFarlane’s place, and was there for eight years, when Mr McFarlane owned the Coldstream and Whiterock Stations. Several years later he went to Horsley Downs, as shepherd, when Messrs Mallock and Lance owned that station, and after about six years on that estate, Mr Elderton went to Amberley to reside and for a great number of years was in the employ of the late Mr W. B. Clarkson, senr. In 1881 Mr Elderton married the eldest daughter of the late Mr and Mrs John Lea, of Hoon Hay, Christchurch. Thirty-four years ago Mr’Elderton moved from' Amberley to a small holding a - Greney’s road, where he resided up tih the time of his death. He is survived by his widow, two sons, and two daughters— Messrs H. Elderton (Colac Bay, Southland) and F. Elderton (Rangiora), and Mrs Dallas (Christchurch), and Mrs J. W. Streeter (Amberley). His youngest son, Arthur, died of wounds in the Great War in 1916.