PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 18047, 15 August 1922, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr 11. J. Dixon, S.M., Into dork of the court at Hamilton, has been appointee! magistrate for the Central Otago district. Ih.e employees of the Poslyn Woollen Mil' <; t-He good-bye on. Saturday to Mr A. hn!, who is retiring -after 41i years' Kiovic:; at the mill. The manager (Mr W. after eulogising his faithful services with the firm of Messrs lloss and Glcndining, presented him with, a ease of Loewo pipes and a well-filled wallet, A meeting of delegates from theEgmoiiit electorate at Eltham yesterday afternoon soloctccl Mr D. L. A. Astbury, n prominent to represent the Liberal-Labor Party in the coming election against. Mr J. A. Hawkcii, M.P., the present member. At the last election Mr Ilawken polled 3,123 votes and Mr Astbury 2,932. Sister Christa,kd, deaconess at’ St. Andrew’s, has completed twenty-one years of service, and the session heartily congratulates her.

Professor R. Evan Davies .proposes to leave Dunedin in two or three weeks from now, and travel through America to the Old Country, studying college- methods. It will be only a. flying visit. The professor is going by himself, and hopes to return in five months. Mr J. Pow, secretary i f I’-- N.Z.R.S.A., has been appointed eilitor of t!.e. association’s monthly, journal, ‘Quick March.’ Mr P. J. Chisholm, late chief postmaster at Dunedin, left to-day for Wellington, where ho proposes to settle, Mrs Sidney Wolf and one of her sisters started to-day for Auckland, intending to stay there a month or two. Mr Walter Bowles, railway traffic manager, went to Knrow to-day on departmental business. ‘Southern delegates to the annual conference of the New Zealand drain and .Seed Merehant«’ Federation travelled to Christchurch to-day by the express. The Dunedin delegates are Mr J. B. Waters and Mr J. Bradley; Mr G. T. Stevens represents Invercargill, and Mr W. A. Hammond is from Gore. Tho North Otago man joined tho train at Oamarn. Mr Roland Black travelled from Dunedin to Timani to-day. Mr R. Rankinc, C.M.G., Governor of Nyassaland (Central Africa) was a passenger to Wellington by tbo Athenic from Home. Mr Rankinc is a- brother of Mr J. Rankine, chief engineer of the Union Company's Tera.whiti. Mr J. Blair Mason is at present in town.

Captain Dowd], for a long lirao master of the steamer Ngaherc, has resigned from the Union Company in order to visit England to bring out a new steamer for the trade between Lyttelton and the West Coast.—Christchurch correspondent. ■