PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 267, 7 August 1929, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. Justice Adams lias returned to Christchurch from Tlniaru, where lie has been presiding over the Supreme Court sittings. Commissioner J. liny, of the Salvation Army, Is laid aside with an attack of influenza. This is the second time Ulis year that the Commissioner has had influenza. Major L. M. Isitt, officer in charge of the Hobsonville Air Base, and Acting-Director of Air Services in New Zealand, has been conducting license tests in Christchurch. Mr. R. McGillivray, Fields Superintendent for the Department of Agriculture. who has been supervising general business of the Department at Palmerston North and 'Wellington, has returned to Christchurch. The directors of the Wellington Woollen Ma'nufacturiug Company, Ltd., in their annual report, pay a tribute to the services rendered to the company by the late Mr. W. G. Foster, who held a position on the directorate for some twenty years. It is notified by the Chief Commissioner of the St. John Ambulance Brigade for New Zealand, Mr. G. Barclay, that the Grand I’rior lias been pleased to approve of the appointment of Mr. J. Brine, Serving Brother of the Order, to be Assistant Commissioner In charge of the Wanganui district. Air. Ronald Symes, 8.A., of Oriel College and Senior Demy of Magdalen College, has been elected to an official fellowship at Trinity College as lecturer in Ancient History. Mr. Syme, who matriculated with senior status from New Zealand, obtained the Chancellor’s prize for Latin verse and the Gnlsford Greek prose prize in 1926. with the Gaisford Greek verse prize in 1927. In that year, after obtaining a first class in Literae Hunianiores. he was elected to the Derby Scholarship. The Charles Oldham prize was awarded to him this year. Mr. Syme, who headed the University Junior Scholarship list in 1920 after being placed fourth in 1918, when he was under age, is an old boy of the New Plymouth Boys’ High School. He gained the Senior Scholarship in Greek in 1923, qualifying at the same time for them in Latin and French. His M.A. degree followed in 1924, with first-class honours in Latin, and he reached the same standard in Greek. After graduating at Victoria College he was appointed immediately as assistant to Professor Dettnumn. then professor of Classics at Auckland.