PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 16, 19 January 1921, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

Mr. S. E.M'Carthy, S.M., of Christchuroh, who has been indisposed, has recovei'ed sufficiently to enable him to resume his duty at the Court.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., has received advice from its London Office that Lord Ritchie, of Dundee, has joined the company's London Board of Directors.

Dr. R. J. .TiUyard, chief'of the Biologica.l Department of the Cawthroi/ Institute, has been elected a member of the Entomological Society of France, an honour which is held by very few who are not French by birth.

Mr. W. D. Boyee, publisher of the Chicago Ledger and a number of other papers in the United States, is at present in Wellington. Mr. Boyce is 'making a tour of New Zealand, studying the conditions in this country.

The- Revr H. L. B. Goertz, who>has been in Rotorua for some considerable time as chaplain to the Church of England Institute for Soldiers and as curate to C;uion P. W. Chatterton, has been appointd to take charge of the Patea district in, the Wellington Diocese.

Mr. V. R. Meredith, of the firm of Messrs -Hesketh, Richard, Clayton, and Meredith, barristers and solicitors, has been appointed Crown Prosecutor for Auckland in succession to the late Hon. J. A. Tole, K.C. (states a Press Association, message). Mr. Meredith was formerly a member of the Crown Law Office staff in Wellington.

The Rev. E. C. Crosse, D.5.0., M.C., M.A., arrived in Wellington by the Ruahine to-day. Mr. Crosse js the new beadmaster of Christ's College. ■ He will be entertained this evening by the old boys of Christ's College, who are resident,'in this part of the Dominion. Mr. L. 0. H. Tripp will preside, and among the speakers will be Mr. T. M. Wilford, M>P., and Mr. T. Shailcr. Western.

Reference was made in his annual report to the Senate by the Chancellor of tho University (Sir Robert Stout) today to thf loss sustained by tho death of professor Gilray, LL.D, of Otago University, and the Hon. J. A. Tole, 8.A.. LL.D., of Auckland, who had been a Fellow of the University since 1903. The death of Professor J. A. M'Clalland, M.A., DSc, F.R.S., Examiner in Physics, and Professor of Experimental Physics in the University College, Dublin, was also much deplored.

The chair at the weekly meeting of the Wellington Cricket Association's Management Committee last evening was again occupied by Mr. C. G. Wilson, who returned on Monday from a visit to Australia. Mr. Wilson thanked the committee and the cricketers of Wellington generally for their expressions of trust and confidence in asking him to alter his previous decision to .resign from the association. In view of this and the fact that ho had negotiated with the Board of Control for the visit of an Australian team,, ho felt he had a. duty to cricketers, and would continue as chairman of the committee.