PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 17922, 18 March 1922, Page 9

PERSONAL

Miss Jean Stevenson was a passonwsb by Lie express from Invercargill this morning. Sno will remain in Dunedin" te two weeks, and in her capacity of national industrial secretary for the Y.W.C.A. of Australia will fulfil a short programme of meetings for women and girls, giving her experiences in settlement, industrial welfare, and" recreation centre work both in America and Australia.

Mr B. A. Homo, manager of The Bristol''Piano Company, Christchurch, is making steady progress toward.; recovery. A London cable states that Canon Per- ■ rival Stacey Waddy has been appointee! Anglican Archdeacon of Palestine.^ A London cable states that it is re-, ported that M. Paul Gambon has resigned tho presidency of tho Ambassadors’ Conferonco in favor of an important banking appointment. 'Hie Hon. Mir Coates reaches Pembroke . on Sunday evening, visits Hawca, Tairas, Ripponvale, and Cromwell on Monday, and proceeds to Clyde. Alexandra, and probably. Ophir on Tuesday. The Minister readies Dunedin on Wednesday night, and goes north on Thursday. Tho members of the clerical Staff of tha Railway Goods Department assembled! m force this week to bkl farewell to Mr W. E. Smith, who is retiring on superannuation. The presentation, which took / the form of a gold-mounted fountain pea and wallet (Inscribed) and a set of DooJk ton ware for Mrs Smith, was made by M* Wallace (goods agent). Supporting remark} wore made by Messrs W. Bowles (district traffic, manages’), MillSr (chief clerk), Henderson (staff clerk), Fyfo (outwards clerk), and (blip (on behalf of the Railway 1 Officers’ Institute), all the .speakers tostifying to tho sterling qualities of the re-.-,, thing officer. Mr Smith, in the course of hio reply, claimed to have always done his best to safeguard the revenue, while at the same time endeavoring to e<& fairly both to the men under his control and the department. In referring to tha work with which he was closely connected, ho remarked that the two were ‘undoubtedly the outwards invoke Staff' in tha office and. tho shunters’ dritba in the yard. Those two branches of the . service were working against the clock all the time. Mr Smith concluded, by extending a hearty invitation to his late colleagues to visit him in ids now homo in the North Island. ( Mr and Mrs John Drummond celebrated their golden wedding on Wednesday last, ■when a few old friends visited ■ their residence in Goorgo street north to wish, them long life, health, and happiness. Mr Drummond carao out from Glasgow in tho sc verities in tho Margaret Galbraith, followed a year later by his wife. They were residents of Port Chalmers tor over twenty years, their last twenty years having been spent in Dunedin. Mr A. P. Slender, champion comet player, wont to-day from Dunedin _ to Timoru, where ho is to play this evening. To-morrow he proceeds to Christchurch by aeroplane. , . „ ~ Mr W. Clark secretary of tho Dunedin branch of the Seamen’s tJnion, JMt to-day • for Auckland.

Mr Edmund Ansoomlbe was a passenger north to-day,, on"his way to Palmerston Norl : b ? to hand over from Aiiscombo and Associates the Central School, which they planned and supervised. Mr H. Buokloton, general manager of the Bank of New Zealand,'and Mr G, Elliott, ono of the directors, brought their Dunedin visit to a close this morning, arid loft for Wellington. Mr E. J. Guinness, chief dork of tba stores branch, Railway Department, ImA been in Dunedin from Wellington on business, unci for tlio North. thlSI morning. . The Hon. ,T. A. Hunan came to Dunn edin to-day from Invercargill on private business. „ „ „ „ Mr Norman M. Tyrrell, of North-east Valley has received intimation that ha has passed his M.A. degree with, honors in. economics. ~ , Mr H. J. 6. Grater was this morning admitted as a solicitor of the_ Supremo Court by the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout).