PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 52, 10 September 1928, Page 11

PERSONAL MATTERS

Mr. Justice Ostler left Wellington to-day for New Plymouth. Mr. Stronncli Patterson returned to Wellington from the South yesterday morning. Mr. W. B. M'llveney, Commissioner of Police, was a passenger on the Wahine from Lyttolton on Saturday night. Captain M'Arthur arrived in Wellington from Lyttclton yesterday. Mr. A. A. Catts, managing director of the New Century Press, Ltd., Sydney, arrived by the Makura to-day. The Rev. F. A. Bennett will \w con; secrated Bishop of Aotea Roa at Napier on Sunday, 2nd December. The ceremony will be" performed by the Primate of New Zealand, the Right Rev. A. W. Averill, who will be as sisted by all the other bishops of the Church of the Province of New Zea land. The new bishop "will have no dioeesi- of his own, but will have epis copal supervision over members of the Maori race in the Diocese of Waiapu, and in the dioceses of the other bishops who wish him to exercise similar super vision. The Rev. Joseph W. Kemp, minister, of the Auckland .Baptist Tabernacle, and honorary principal of the New Zealand Bible Training Institute," has received a call to an important chai'ge in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Mr. Kemp has been at the Tabernacle for eight years, during which time there has been a considerable increase in tho membership, which now stands at over TOO. He was a prime mover in the founding of tho New Zealand Bible Training Institute. Mr. Kemp has not yet decided whether he will respond to the call. Private advice lias been received that the distinguished surgeon Sir Watson ChcyiK' will visit New Zealand towards the end of the year, and will nttend the annual meeting of the Now Zealand branch of the British Medical Association, to be held in Wellington early in 1920. Sir Watson Cheyno is Professor of Clinical Surgery, King's College, London. He is an ex-president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and is the author of many standard . medical works, including ''Manual of Surgical Treatment," in seven volumes. Sir Watson Cheyne is now in his 76th year. Dr. E. S. Molyneux, whoso tragic death from bloodpoisoning caused by an injury to his finger during an operation which ho performed on a patient suffering from gangrene was reported from England last week, was 48 years of age, and was tho eldest of the three sons of the Rev. F. E. Molyneux, rector of Martyr-Worthy, Winchester. The Bishop of Melanesia is a brother. At school ho excelled as an underwater swimmer, and became well known as a cross-country runner. First prizes in surgery, anatomy, and physiology were obtained by him at the London Hospital. Dr. Molyneux held several important hospital appointments in England. He carried out extensive surgical work during the war, and later became a Harley Street specialist in radium treatment for tuberculosis. At the inquest, the Coroner said the people of Leamington had lost a good and keen surgeon, and some of them a very true and loyal friend.