PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 18158, 26 December 1922, Page 7

PERSONAL

Mr J. Brown, who held the position of messenger of the National! Bank for the past thirty-two years, was farewelled by the staff on Friday afternoon and presented with a cheque and suit case, together with a suit case for Mrs Brown. Mr A. Varney, dominion secretary of the Y.M.C.A., has been seriously ill in Christchurch ~ following an operation for peritonitis, and was not expected to be able to return, to Wellington before Christmas.

Mr 0. J. Westland-, who is in charge of the Apia Observatory, Western Samoa, and who has been spending part of his holiday leave in Christchurch, has returned to Wellington prior to leaving for Samoa.

Mr H. Miller, Masterton’s Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, -has been offered tho position of . lecturer in philosophy at the Toronto University, Canada, and s, similar position in the Melbourne University. He has not yet decided whichposition he will accept. Captain A. E. W. Thomas, D. 5.0., of London, a member of the League of _ Nations Union Committee, will be visiting Australia and New Zealand shortly, and in a letter to the Mayor of Christchurch he states that he will be in- Christchurch on January 26, and will be pleased to do what he can in propaganda and educational work on behalf of the League during his visit there. Tho Chief Justice, Sir Robert- Stout, left Dunedin to-day for Waimahaka, Southland.

At tho Kaitangata Caledonian Society’s annual gathering Miss Eileen M'Ca-rthy, of Dunedin, was successful in winning _ths Irish jig, sailors’ hornpipe, Highland fling, sword dance in class fifteen years and tinder, and was placed in scan triubhais 1 and Highland fling in the open class.