ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 21098, 2 June 1930, Page 6

ABOUT PEOPLE

Mr A. Tapper returned by motor from the North on Saturday evening.

Mr Frank Taylor returned to Invercargill by the express on Saturday evening.

Mr W. J. Wesney, of Otautau, was a passenger to Invercargill by the express on Saturday evening.

A notice in the Gazette announces that Lieutenant C. H. Hargest, Ist Battalion, Southland Regiment, has been transferred to the reserve of officers.

A cable from San Francisco states that the Rev. C. H. Watson, of Sydney, Australia, has been elected president of the general conference of the Seventh Day Adventists at the quadrennial sessions there. The Prime Minister (the Hon. G. W. Forbes) announced on Saturday that the Public Service Commissioner, Mr P. Verschaffelt, whose term of office expired on Saturday, had been reappointed for a further 'term of seven years in accordance with the Public Service Act, 1912. Mr P. S. de Q. Cabot, of Otago University, who is to continue his studies at Columbia University, where he holds a Carnegie Foundation Scholarship, arrived in Christchurch from the south on Saturday. He left later for Auckland, where Im will join the Niagara for Vancouver. Mr Cabot will also act while in America as the official representative of the New Zealand National Union of Students, of which he was the first president. Mr- H. W. Kelly, who has been appointed to succeed Mr H.'M. Didsbury as manager at Auckland, for the New Zealand Insurance Company, was born at Mangonui, North Auckland, 56 years ago. He was educated at Napier, and joined the staff of the company there.in 1889. He was in the Wellington office for some time, and in 1911 was appointed manager of the company s Wanganui branch. In 1920 he was transferred to Dunedin as manager, and in 1923 was appointed manager of the.. Melbourne branch. While holding this position he was also controlling officer for the company in Australia. In his younger days Mr Kelly was a keen Rugby footballer, and represented Wellington for several years. For some time he held the-record for the number of interprovincial games played by a Wellington representative, and he was captain of the team in most of its. matches. Mr Kelly’s playing career ended in 1903, but later he was a member of the Management Committee of the Rugby Union. After the Dominion tour of Harding’s Anglo-Welsh-inen Mr Kelly accompanied the side to Australia as representative of the New Zealand Union.