PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 17923, 20 March 1922, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr J. Edic, M.P., is in town to meet Mr Wilford.

Mrs R. W. M'Villy, of _ Wellington, is on a short visit to Dunedin. The Hon. W. Nosworthy (Minister of Agriculture) is at present on the W r est Coast.

Mr E. Kellett, M.P., has been confined to his bed for the past two or three weeks.

Mr A. V. Fleet, M.A., of Cavorsham School, has received intimation that he has passed the first section of the B.Sc. degree. The following additional! successes in degree examinations are announced:—Mr E. M. Christie, M.Se., with second class honors in chemistry; Miss Lorna Abcrnethy, first section IS.A.; Mr N. M. Tyrrell, M.A., with second class honors in economics.

Our C'hristchurch correspondent wires : Mr P. Davidson, Chrktehurch manager of Ross and Glendining, who is leaving on a six months' trip to -the Old Country with. Mr*s Davidson, was the recipient of presents from the staff on Saturday. Mr Davidson, in responding, said he, had been forty years in Lichfield street. Mr T. Thomson, youngest son of Mr T. Thomson, Green Island, who has been on the staff of the Ashburton High School for some months, on leaving to continue his studies at the Ota go University was presented by his fellow-members on the staff with a pipe. Mv_W. F. Walters, who made the presentation, spoke, of tho respect in which Mr Thomson was held, and of his popularity among tho members of the staff and tlie'pupil.s. Mr Thomson has received notice that he has passed his final exam, for B.A.

Canon Porcival Stacy Waddy, whose appointment as Anglican Archdeacon of Palestine was announced last week, is an Australian, and was born at Carcoar (N.S.W.) in 1875. He is a grandson of tho last commandant of the Imperial troops in Australia, and was educated at tho King's School, Parramatta,, and Balliol College, Oxford. Prior to proceeding to England, Canon Waddy was head master of his old school, the King's School. Canon Waddy is a fine cricketer, and whilo at Oxford captained the eleven. Ho later represented Australia against England, and last year played against 'the Australian eleven touring England. Ho also got his "blue" for Oxford in 18961897.

A welcome was accorded Mr H. W. Bundle. S.M., by the social workers of the city, who waited upon him in his office before the sitting of tho Police Court today. Speeches were made l>v the Rev. A. E. Axe'lsen (Presbyterian Social Service Association), Mr F. G. Gumming (probation officer and representative of the Patients and Prisoners' Aid Society), Mrs Jackson (St. Vincent. Do Pan! Society). Ensign Coombs (Salvation ArmyL and Sister Nora (Protection of Women and Children), all of whom promised His Worship the assistance which they had given his predecessor. Mr Bundle expressed his thanks for the welcome. Magistrates, he said, received a great deal of assistance from social workers, and that assistance was trebled in. value when one knew tho quality of the ladies and gentlemen who gave such assistance. The work done for tho social workers in Duncdin was realised in the north. There were also many matters in which assistance could be 'riven bv tho magistrate, and ho trusted it would bo mutual. Concerning yonn<r. F. O'Tveefe. the Victorian cricketer who played a sensational innings against N.S.W. for the Sheffield Shield last month, the. ' Sunday Times' relates this anecdote: He was under his doctor's care for tho whole of the night before the match was played, but nest day did not r;ivc the faintest indication that ho had been ill. This recalls an incident during his schooldays at tho Christian Brothers' College at Wavorley (Sydney), an<l a permanently disfigured finger was the result. Larking about one clay, he got his finger jammed in a door, near tho hinges. Bede Kenny, now a Y.C., was passing at the time, and O'Keefe said to him : "Bo you mind opening this door a bit. Bode, while I get my finger out?" And this was the youth who was criticised in Sydney cricket circles for want of nerve, and would probably have remained under that stigma had not a change of residence given him an opportunity to dissipate it. Playing for his State at Adelaide tho other dav, O'Keefo made 180. Mr T. Y. Seddon, M.P., is spending a holiday in Otago.