PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 18054, 23 August 1922, Page 6

PERSONAL

A poll held at Pelmerston yesterday to fill the vacancy in the Goodwood Biding of the Waihcmo County Council caused by the resignation of Or A. S. Cambridge. Mr Alexander M‘Laren was returned, the votes recorded being: A. M'Laren 50, Frank M'Callum 34, Thos. Hewitt 12. Mr V. E. Galway, Mus. Bac., has been appointed conductor of the Dunedin Choral Society in succession to the late Mr Sidney Wolf. Mr H. C. H. Hutton, organist-choir-master of Trinity Presbyterian Church, Tim am, has been' appointed to a similar position in St. Mary’s (Churchof England), J-fawcra. Mr Hutton was at one time organist-choirmaster of St. Stephen’s Chinch, North Dunedin, and St. Mary's Church, Mornington. Major E. A. Belcher, who is visiting New Zealand in connection with the Empire Exhibition, arrived; in Wellington last night from Picton. He will remain in the capital until Friday, and then leave for Auckland lo join the Niagara, which will sail on August 29 for Vancouver. The mayor (Mr J. S. Douglas) is still confined to his bed, and is not likely to be able to attend to hia civic duties for some days yet. , , When Air A. G. Wood returned a week av o from* a holiday trip to Sydney he felt greatly improved in health, and was looking forward to a resumption of his old business as starter. Since then, however (wires our Christchurch correspondent), he has changed his mind. Ho is not yet completely restored to health, and has decided "to give up all hia starting appointments.

Mr Thomas Begg, firet .assistant at the Arthur Street School, was, at last night’s meeting of the Kaitangata Sehool_ Committee, recommended for the position of headmaster ut the Kaitangata School

The death of Sir Thomas Brock, R.A., the well-known sculptor, is announced by cable from London. Among his works are the Queen Victoria memorial. Ho was in Iris seventy-fifth year.