Personal Items.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18135, 26 July 1924, Page 12

Personal Items.

Messrs W. E. Reynolds (Dunedin) and F. H. Harris (Wellington) are guests at Warner's Hotel. Mr J. Radford, after a long period of service with Messrs W. Strange 1 and Co., has resigned, having received an. other appointment. Mr J. B. Merrctt, who has been on a visit to England in connexion with the egg expert trade, returned to Christchnrch yesterday. Mr W. S. Wauehop, of Christchnrch, lias been appointed assistant librarian at the Parliamentary Library, and will take over his new duties early next month, Mr F. Wansborough, who has been the proprietor and printer of the "Cheviot News" for over twenty-five years, has had to retire from active work on account of ill-health. He will live with his eon at Ohakune. Mr W. J. Foote, who has been recently stationed at the Railway Department's office at Milton, has received notice of his transfer to Lyttelton, where he will take np the position of chief clerk. Recent arrivals at the United Service Hotel are:—Messrs P. S. Middleton (Wellington), A. Macfarlane, P. Macfarlane (Parnassus), M. Kerry (Sydney), K. W. Whelan (Wellington), and E. McOall (Auckland)* Dr. A. McTaggart, of M&cdoni&ld College, McGill University, Montreal, arrived at Auckland by the Makura this week, Dr. McTaggart, who is a New Zealander, is assistant professor of agronomy at the College, and is an associate member of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research. He will visit relatives in Otago, returning to Canada in September. Mr W. D. Mere, who has been the preacher at the Church o? Christ, Moorhouse avenue, for the past two years, rxuting on medical advice, has decided to accept a call to the Tabernacle Church of Christ, Dunedin. He will leave Christchnrch next week, and will deliver his final addresses at Moorhouse avenue to-morrow, A special function to bid farewell to Mr More and his family will be held in the chnrch next Wednesday. The University of Cambridge ha* awarded to Mr H. D. Skinner, B.A, (N.Z.), Lecturer in Anthropology in the University of Otago, the degree of B.A. by research. Tho Bubjeet of the investigation, which was carried out at Cambridge five or six years age, is the culture of the Morlorl race. An outcome of the research has recently been published by the Bishop Museum at Honolulu in the form of a largo quarto volume, The authorities at Cambridge, in recording the award, expressed tho opinion that, the research was "a contribution to learning, which is a formula used only in respect of results of a particularly high character.