PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 93, 19 April 1923, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

VICE-REGAL.

The Gbvernor-General (Viscount Jellicoe) officially opened the Maheno and Marama Hall, at the Otago University at Dunedin, yesterday. This hall, was erected to act as a drill hall for the Officers' Training Corps, and also for the purposes of a gymnasium.

Dr. Truby King, Director Child Welfare Division. Health Department,, leaves for the South to-morrow evening.

Mr. C. H. Taylor has been appointed assistant lecturer at Victoria College on criminal law and torts.'

At a private investiture in Dunedin yesterday, His Excellency the GovernorGeneral presented the patent of Knight Bachelor to Sir John Ross.

Eev. W. Eddy, general secretary of the Australian Mission to lepers, arrived in Wellington from Melbourne to-day on a visit to New Zealand. , '

Lieut.-Colonel Henry and Major Littlejohn, of the Salvation Army, were passengers i*om Melbourne by the Moeraki to-day. . ' ■

Mr. T. 0. Bishop, secretary of the New Zealand "Employers' Federation, who has been visiting the South Island on federation business, returned to Wellington this morning.

Mr. Alexander Hamilton, manager of the Westport Coal Company, and Mrs. Hamilton will leave by the Tahiti on Tuesday on a trip to the United States and Canada. They will return to Wellington in September.

' "Mr. R s OWv Kane,-financial adviser to the Public Trust Office, has been granted leave of absence for six weeks. During his absence his duties at the Public Trust Office will be carried out by Mr. Alfred Smith, formerly branch manager of the Bank of New. Zealand af Wellington.

Mr. Charles Howard Ham. was on. Tuesday admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, before the Chief Justice (Sir-Robert Stout), on the motion of Mr. J. A. Tripe. Mr. Ham has for some years been a member of the. staff of Messrs. J. A. Tripe and Maule. ' j

Sir "Alfred Pickford, Commissioner of Oversea Boy Scouts, who is at present visiting Australia, was expected, to attend the meeting of the Dominion Council of the New Zealand Boy Scouts, to be held in Christchurch next week. Sir Alfred has found it impossible, owing to his engagements in Australia, to attend, but it is anticipated that he will visit New Zealand in June.

Major Standish, C.M.G., D.5.0., of Auckland, will take over the duties of officer in charge of the Dunedin Regimental District, in succession to Major F. H. Lampen, D.5.0., who is retiring to enter into business. Major Lampen joined the Indian Army in 1900. Subsequently he went to the Russo-Japanese War in an unofficial capacity. Then he served in the Great War. He was at Home when that war broke out, and enlisted in the British Bection of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force.

Mr. W. I. Bolam, Christchurch manager of the New Zealand Insurance Co., Ltd., will retire under the company's superannuation scheme ■ on 31st May. Mr. Bolam arrived in the Dominion from England in September, 1883, for the' purpose of engaging in farming, but, not finding the prospects encouraging-, entered the company's service at head office, Auckland, in February, 1884. Subsequently he became chief clerk at Napier, chief clerk, acting- and assistant manager 'at Wellington, and in December, 1895, was appointed manager for Tasmania, with headquarters at Launceston. Thilee years later he became manager for Ota'go, and for the last eight years has been manager for Canterbury and the West Coast. Although free, Mr. Bolam does not intend to retire from active business habits at present, but will interest himself in the trustee and executor department of the company', for which he has been retained, with the title of trust officer and location in the company's Christchurch office.

Dr. Marsden, a former professor of Victoria College, and the demonstrator (Mrs. E. J. Harwood), were faorew.elled at a gathering of physics students at the college on Monday evening. Mr. A. M. Wright. M.Sc, presided. Dr. Marsden gave a farewell lecture on the advance ■of science. Mr. N. M. Rogers, ,M.Sc, moved a vote of thanks to the guests of the evening, and remarked on the care and interest they had always displayed in the work of the students. Mr. J. T. M'Caw spoke on behalf, of pass students, and Mr. J. C. Millard. 8.A., M.Sc., on behalf of .ecience professors and student*, presented Dr. Marsden with a solid leather suit case. Mr. K. Beaglehole, on behalf of students, presented Mrs, Harwood vrith an electric coffee-peroolator. .