PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 261, 31 July 1929, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. Justice Ostler is at Hamilton. Sir Frederick Lang, M.L C., returned to Wellington yesterday. The Leader of the Opposition (Rt. Hou. J. G. Coates) returned to Wellington from the north yesterday. Mr. Lindsay Russell, of Christchurch, is visiting Wellington, and is staying at the Midland Hotel. Mr. Bernard Tripp, of South Canterbury, arrived back from Australia by the Marama yesterday. Mr. G. G. Chisholm, Registrar of the Supreme Court and Official Assignee at Napier, will from to-morrow also be the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages. Mr. P. L. Rankin, of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Co., accompanied by Mrs. Rankin, left for Auckland on Monday en route for a holiday at Honolulu. Mr. L. M. Hill, of Moree. New South Wales, a well-known runholder, is a through passenger on the Aoraugi. which called at Auckland this week. He is on a world tour. Mr. W. D. Brunton, a member of the Australian milling firm of that name, who arrived at Auckland aboard the Aorangi, is making a holiday trip to Honolulu, accompanied by his wife. Mr. H. E. Field, lecturer in philosophy at Canterbury College, will leave shortly, under a research scholarship, for the United States, to study his subject. He will spend about a year in America, and then go to England. Mr. Guy Berling, of Melbourne, managing director of the Ingersoll Rand Mining Company, arrived by the Aorangi. He is visiting New Zealand on holiday. With him is Mr. J. W. Mailer, manager in India for the company. ’ Mr. A. Walker, London representative of the Victorian Wheatgrowers’ Association, who is returning to England after an extensive visit to Australia, was a passenger on the Aorangi. The Rev. S. R. \ Waring, • vicar of Putaruru, has been appointed vicar of Te Awamutu. The Rev. E. R. Alexander, Methodist minister for Hauraki Plains, has received notice of transfer to Ohura, King Country. He will be succeeded by the Rev.,A. R. Thomas, of Ohura. Captain John Bath, Royal Marines, who with sixteen members of his gun’s crew was killed in the explosion in H.M.S. Devonshire, was well-known in New Zealand, where he served in H.M.S. Diomede. Mr. D. Naish, of London, who is on a visit to the Hermitage, Mount Cook, is a representative of the biscuit manufacturing firm of Peak, Frean and Co., Ltd., England. Mr. Naish is having a week’s ski-ing at the Ball and Malte Brun Huts. He is no beginner at this sport, having visited Switzerland several times and Mount Cook about two and a half years ago. He stated that he considered the conditions were as nearly perfect as possible at Mount Cook this winter. At last night’s meeting of the Mathematical and Physical Society. Victoria University College, a presentation was made to Mr. F. W. G. White, M.Sc., who will leave on Friday for England. Mr. White holds the postgraduate scholarship in science, and lias also been awarded the Strathcona studentship for St. John’s College, Cambridge. This studentship is open to graduates of the British Empire and of Cambridge. Mr. White, who has been working under Professor Flora nee, will continue his work in the Cavendish Laboratory under Sir Ernest Rutherford, 0.M.. P.R.S.

Captain A. gangster has been appointed Superintendent of Navigation for New South Wales, in succession to Captain J. Morris, who died recently. He has been deputy superintendent and harbourmaster at Newcastle since 1922. In 1896 Captain Sangster resigned the command of the wool clipper Trafalgar at Sydney to become an inspector of shipping and surveyor under the Marine Board, and in 1901 transferred to the Navigation Department, when it assumed control of shipping administration. He was master of the Trafalgar for five years, having taken charge at the age of 24 years. Previously he <afc an officer for four years on the Trafalgar and an apprentice on the clipper Windsor Castle. He first engaged in the London-Sydney trade in 1881.

The Rev. Father William O’Leary. S.J., Professor of Mathematics ami Physlck at the Jesuit College of Milltown Park, Dublin, has been appointed to succeed the late Father Edwfird Pigot, S.J., in the charge of the Seismological, Meteorological, and Astronomical Observatories at St. Ignatius’ College, Riverview, New South Wales. Father O’Leary conies of a scientific family: his father was a well-known scientist and medical doctor in Dublin. He himself has inherited his father’s Inventive gifts, having patented a useful illuminating gas-making machine, a self-correcting electric chronometer, and a new form of seismograph. He erected seismographic observatories at Mungret College, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, and has done considerable original work in meteorology. He studied astronomy at Louvain in Belgium. Mr. Leo du Chateau, who has just completed a tour as manager for Mr. E. J. Carroll with Sir Harry Lauder, has returned to Wellington.