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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21813, 19 June 1936, Page 10

Personal Items

The Postmaster-General (the Hon. F. Jones) spent a busy day at Dunedin yesterday with private deputations. He will leave Dunedin for Christchurch on Sunday.

The Minister for Agriculture (the Hon, W. Lee Martin) an'-.-ed at Dunedin yesterday. He will officially open the Otago Winter Show today, and will return to Wellington or Monday. The Minister for Labor (the Hon. H. T. Armstrong) will leave Wellington for Christchurch this evening. He will be in the city on Saturday morning and Monday, to attend to constituency and official business.

Dr. Aylmer Vivian 3 as returned to Christchurch from Dunedin.

Mr G. McNamara, Director of the Post and Telegraph Department, arrived from Wellington yesterday. He is at Warner’s Hotel, . Mr W. J. Grant, editor of the “Rangoon Times,” left Wellington for Auckland on Wednesday on his return to Burma, after spending three months in New Zealand.

Mr R. H. Nesbitt, Australian Trade Commissioner in New Zealand, returned from Australia by the Wanganella this week. Mr F. Langbein, District Public Works Engineer in Canterbury, was yesterday re-elected chairman of the No. 14 District Highways Council.

A motion of sympathy with Mr C. H. Hewlett in his illness, with hope for his speedy recovery, was passed Ithe Wheat Research Institute at its quarterly meeting yesterday. The new Conciliation Commissioner, Mr M. J. Reardon, has been assigned the following industrial districts:—Northern Taranaki, Wellington, and the South Island.

Mr W. J. Hunter (Christchurch) will leave for New Zealand on August 15, wrote the London correspondent of “The Press” on May 30. He has left London for a few weeks’ tour of England and Scotland.

General Evangeline Booth, commander of the Salvation Army, has appointed LieutenantColonel George W, P. Grattan to be chief secretary of the Salvation Army in New Zealand, in succession to Colonel Orsborn, who is taking up the position of territorial commander for Scotland and Ireland. Besides serving as a divisional commander in England, Colonel Grattan has served as assistant field secretary and as private secretary Bramwell Booth and Commissioner Hurren. —Press Association.

Dr. J. Melville has been appointed assistant chemist to Mr E. W. Hullett at the Wheat Research Institute’s laboratory. Dr. Melville is a New Zealander who graduated here in chemistry, and then went to England on a postgraduate scholarship. His chemical work gained him in 1932 the scientific distinction of election to a Commonwealth Fellowship, under which he proceeded to Yale Unh -'rsity, in the United States, where he has been doing advanced research for the last three years.

Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland, the Most Rev. C. F. D’Arcy, who will visit Christchurch next month, has had a remarkable career. Bo- i in 1859 in Dublin, he was educated at the high school and Trinity College, Dublin. He was a first science scholar and gold medallist in mental and moral philosophy. He took first-class honours in divinity, graduating B.A. in 1882, M.A. in 1889, B.D. in 1892. and D.D. in 1901. He was awarded an honorary doctor ate of divinity at Oxford in 1920. In 1884 Dr. D’Arcy was made a deacon, and in 1885 a priest. From 1884 t 1890 he was curate of St. Thomas’ Church, Belfast, from 1890 to 1893 rector of Billy, County Antrim, and from 1893 to 1900 rector of Ballymena, County Antrim. For 11 years until 1903 Dr. D’Arcy was examining chaplain to the Bishop of Down, and from 1895 to 1903 was chaplain to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Dr. D’Arcy has held in succession the bishoprics of Clogher, Ossory, Ferns, Leighlin, and of Down and Connor and Dromore. From the last-named see he was translated to Dublin on his election as archbishop. In 1926 he was elected Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland. A distinguished scholar and philosopher, he has beep selected preacher and Donellan lecturer in Dublin University, and special preacher at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Glasgow. His writings upon theological and philosophical subjects have won him a European reputation.