PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 131, 30 November 1933, Page 15

PERSONAL ITEMS

"jVliss Wall (Feilding), Mrs. E. Atheson (A Telson), and Mis. T. W. Irwiu (Aucklaud):are among the guests at;the Royal Oak Hotel.

Mrs! H. J. Palmer (Marlborough) is visiting Wellington, and is staying at the Midland Hotel. ,

A tribute to the memory of the late Dr. W. E. Herbert.was paid by the executive committee of the _ Wellington Returned ' Soldiers' Association last night, tlibsc present standing in silence for a few moments., The -chairman (ColonelA/Covi'les). said that Dr. Herbert was the association's representative on the Pensions Appeal Board, and, his services would be greatly missed.

The Victoria University College" Coun* cil at'its'last'meeting'appointed .Drj A. •C, Keys to -the position of lecturer in . modern languages and assistant to the professor. Dr. Keys is a former student of Victoria: University College, and graduated M:A., with first-class honours, in 1928. • ; In 1930 he, proceeded- to >. France 'under...a French travelling scholarship,- and obtained his doctorate at the University of Paris this year, with a thesis <Jn "The- Musical. Adaptations of Shakespeare in France.' ■', ,DivJKey» has just returned to New.Zealand. .

. The Bey. H. M. Smyth, yiear of St. Peter's Anglican Church,'' Oneliunga, has resigned his eha'Tge> as frbni February 28 next, owing to ill health.. He has been nearly thirteen years,at Onehunga.

Professor C. F: SalindndJ- professor of philosophy at: Canterbury College, has advised the Canterbury College board of governors that, through ill. health, ho will be obliged ■to retire in 1934.' It was ia 1901 that philosophy was given a^. place in .' the teaching programme at Canterbury: College,, when, a part-time lectureship was established and filled by, Mr. pharlcs Francis Salmond,'who was born in Dunedin, the third son of the Eev. Dr; W; Salmond, prof essor 6f philosophy in the University; of Otago. Ho was educated at the Otago Boys'. High School and the University; ,of. Otago, where lie graduated M.A.'.with firstolass honours in philosophy in:lß9l.':H» was assistant master at the Temuka District High School, 1895-96, and first assistant master at the Ashburton High School, 1896-1907.: In 1907 he became full-time lecturer with the additional duties of assistant to the "chair of classics. From 1910 he "was relieved of his classical work and in 1914 was appointed professor of philosophy. Professor Salmond hag been a prominent tennis player, and has published: poems showing a fine literary taste.3 .

Father Allen McKean, of Pukekohe, was ordained to the priesthood in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Auckland, last Sunday, by the Et. Eev. J. M. Liston, Boman Catholic Bishop ,of Auckland. Father McKcSn is an old boy of the Sacred, Heart College, Auckland, and St. Patrick!? College, Wellington. For the past seven years he has been' a student for the priesthood at Holy Cross College, Mosgiel. , ... Ecference'to the death of Captain T. T. Hugo was made at the annual conference of the Institution of Fire Engineers, which concluded yesterday. The secretary (Mr. L. V. C. Gibson), in his annual report, and the president (Superintendent Charles C. Warner),\in his address, both mentioned the great loss suffered by the whole community by,th« death of so distinguishes an omcew