PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 74, 28 March 1931, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

Regret at the retirement of Captain; T. T. lingo, .Inspector of Fire Brigades, was expressed by the Potoue Fire Board at its annual meeting yesterday, and a motion of appreciation of his services was passed.

Among the guests at the Grand Hotel are Messrs. A. E. Wells (Auckland), P. N. Jeffreys (Ohristchurch), J. Bonccn (Sydney), and P. Farnacque (Franco).

Mr. T. B. Strong (Director of Education) left on Tuesday for Auckland, and will return to Wellington via. Napier within a. few days.

Leave of absence for the remainder of tho session was granted in the House of Representatives this morning to Mr. A. M. Samuel (Reform, Thames), on account of illness.

Tho death lias occurred in Honolulu of the Rev. Ira Button, who for 45 years was the Roman Catholic minister at Molokai, the leper island.

Opportunity was taken by Sir Thomas Sidcy, in tho Legislative Council yesterday afternoon, to congratulate the Speaker (Sir Walter Carncross) ori the celebration, that, day, of his. seventysixth birthday. Sir Thomas extended congratulations to Lady Carncross, whose birthday anniversary also occurred yesterday.

Mr. E. J. Parr, Chief Inspector of Secondary Schools, is inspecting, New Plymquth High Schools, and will return to Wellington next Wednesday.

Mr.- A. P. Harper, president of the New Zealand Alpine Club, ■will leave next week to open the memorial hut erected at the De la' Beche Corner, in' memory of the victims of the Tasman. Glacier disaster last year. The ceremony will be performed on Eastet Sunday. The- Mayor of Petone- '(Mr. D. M'Kcnzie) was re-elected chairman of the Petone Fire Board at its annual meeting yesterday. Two new members, Mr. H. A. Ryder (representing the Petone Borough Council) and Mr. ■J. E* Quinn (representing the insurance companies) were welcomed. A. letter ot appreciation is to be sent to~Mr. L. A. Hutton, the insurance representative, who has retired.

Messrs. B. G. Wrigley (Sydney), -T. Fletcher, L. Stevens . (Auckland), M. L. Seifert (New York), C. H. Frankliu,.H. F. Herbert, A: Smith, P. H. Brown, W. Dawson, S. Warburton, S. Teal, F. B. Clark, C. J. Ferrier, H. Piat, M. Kunzli, F. Leonhard,; H. Hill, B. Hill (Christchurch), B. Fleming (Gore), H. F. Weimerskirk. (Detroit), J. de Winter (Palmerston North)', K. Short and J. A. Parker (Auckland) aTe staying at the Hotel St. George.

Mr. Harry M'Keowen, formerly of the locomotive branch of the Bailways Department, Wellington, but now located at Christchurch, .will retire from' tho service on Ist April, t after 36 years' service. Mr. M'Keowen has recently; been appointed secretary of the Canterbury Football Association, having been chosen from 44 applicants.

. A successful scholastic .career was crowned yesterday by the Senate of the University of New Zealand conferring on JVIr. Herbert Adam Cunningham, of tho legal firm of Robinson,Cunningham, and Beckingsale, of Masterton, tho. degree of Doctor of Laws. Dr. Cunningham first qualified as n, member of the New Zealand Society of Accountants. His studies-were interrupted by service in tho Great War, but later he took his LL.B. and LTi.M, degrees. He lias been an authority, on. taxation for a number of years, and in 1919 collaborated with Mr. E. J. E. Cumming, the present Commissioner of Taxes, in a work on Now Zealand Land and Income Tax. This doctorate was granted for a thesis on "The Law Belating to Assessable Income," which should be valuable to students and lawyers throughout the Empire. The examiner was Sir Josiah Stamp, .. tho great English economist. This' is tho second LL.D. to bo granted since th« statute was altered to require a thesis, which must be a valuable contribution, to learning, in lieu of the passing of an examination.