PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 17084, 1 July 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL

JTr Victor 35, Galway, Mrs, Bach., has -been appointed organist and choirmaster |of First Church, Dunedin. H© is- at present organist of St, Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Brisbane. Mr Galway is said to ; be a very talented musician. ; The Hon. G. M. Thomson left for Christ- ■ church to-day. Ho is to give an address | before the "Canterbury Philosophical luI stitute. | Mr G, Fans, station master at Timoru, liras been promoted to be manager of the ! goods department of the railways at : Christchurch • Tho Rev. IT. Williams, _ Presbyterian j nrnister at Waiwori and Kinhilea, ids -re- : signed owing to failing eyesight. I A P.A, message from Wellington states : j Captain William MT-eod, of Auckland, i has been appointed pilot to the Wellington, ! Harbor Board. Captain MflLood saw j active service with the Royal Naval Roi serve for several years, i On Monday afternoon Mi* % Cl Harri* son, a veteran school toucher, was enter-itain-cd bv the staff of the Kensington School. When the call came to tho retired touchers to fill the places of the younger men who had gone to tho front, Mr Harrison quicklv stopped into the broach, and - fia- the past three years has been doing very arduous work ns Hist Aishtlint .it Kensington School. In making a presentation on behalf of the staff, tho bead master referred to Mr Harrison's many .sterling qualities as a man, his faitihful- ! iic.s.-. to duty, his ability n« a teacher, and the respect in w%loh lie ’« held by Ills ; fc-Jlow-tcachevs. The occasion waa _ also made- a ‘’welcome home” to Air Hindi M’Don.ald, who is again hiking up bit school duties after three years’ service in Prance, Earlier in tho afternoon tho children of Standards V. and VI. presented Mr Ear risen with suitable gifio for himself and Mrs Harrison. | Mr Kenneth A. Macdonald, electrical I engineer, who has been with A. arid T. | Burt for too last 12 years, is about to , settle in Wellington, and leaves Dunedin 'next w-ock. He will be missed from the ; pocinl life of St. Clair, particularly by the - bowlers, ' A London -cable aimouiKce the deatn ni j Sir John MTMI, M.D., Agent General for ; Tasmania--1 Tho members of tho Tnieri Gdlio Club ‘ said fnmweSl to Mr W. R. Gawn on S»tur- • day -night, at tho fftoso of -a boswics* rncot--1 mg, Mr Gawn had been owe of the presi- ! dents- lin vein’s gone by. -and all along had | been on 'ardent supporter. Members oxj pressed regret at his departure, and i wished Mrs' Gawn, lm family, and- him | self every -hai>piness in their Mew home at Oairtam .Mrs J. Forrester, 258 Oxford street, Booth Duiiicdiin, has received -ad-vice that her eon. Private J. Panrestcr, is returning by the Manama. ’Mr A. 1.. Monro, director of the Ashburton Tody deal School, has been -appointed principal of the Now Plymouth Tcr-hn-ical School .*.iid director of technical education In- Taranaki.