PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 18253, 18 April 1923, Page 6

PERSONAL

Dr Milligan has resigned his position as assistant to the professor of physiology. Mr C. D. M. Dry has been appointed half-time demonstrator in the Dental School for one year, at a salary of £2OO. Dr S. K. Datta, M. 8., of Calcutta, who will come to New Zealand early in June, under tho auspices of the Y.M.C.A. and tho Student Christian Movement, is a member of tho National Council of the Y.M.O.A. and principal of the Training School of Secretaries. Ho was one of the leaders of Y.M.C.A. work among Indian soldiers during the war, and also lectured among the New Zealand troops at tho front. He is a well-known author and ex-editor of ’Young Men of India. ho will leave Sydney by the Marama in about two months’ lime. Mr and -Mrs John Fuller, jnn., together with Miss Phyllis Fuller and Mr A. Ben. Fuller, son of Sir Benjamin Fuller, have been visiting Rotorua. Mr W. Sutherland, of Clyde, has been appointed secretary to the Dnnslan Hospital, vice Air J. iA Smart (resigned). Among the passengers who arrived this week by the steamer Tainni was Air Evan Parry, who was for .some years the chief electrical engineer for !he dominion. In January, 1919, Air Parry joined the English Electric Company ns cngincor-in-chiei. It was this largo amalgamation of older concerns that obtained; th» contract tor the electrification of the Arthur’s Pass section of tho. Midland Railway. Air Parry’s primary object in coining out to New Zealand is to represent hi.s company at the official opening of this section of the lino. Ho expects to bo away from England for about six months.

Mr W. I. Uolam. of Christchurch, manager of the New Zealand Insurance Company, Ltd., will retire on superannuation on May 31. Mr Bolam arrived in tho dominion from England in September, 1883, for the purpose of engaging in fanning ; hut not finding the prospects encouraging, colored the company's service at Auckland; in February, 183-1 Subsequently ho became chief* clerk at Napier; chief clerk, acting and assistant manager at Wellington; and in December, 1895, was appointed manager for Tasmania, with headquarters at Launceston. Three years later lie became manager for Otago, and for tho last eight years has been manager for Canterbury and the West Coast. Although free, Mr Bolam docs not intend to retire from active business habits at present, but will interest himself in the trustee and executor department op the company, for which he has been retained, with tho title of trust officer and location in tho company’s Christchurch office. Tho Waikoikoi Farmers’ Union lias appointed the following, officers for the ensuing year:—President, Mr Matthew Stark; vice-presidents—Messrs W. (Spittle, G. Cooper, and J. Burnett; secretary,- Mr 1). M‘Call. Private cable advice lias been received that Colonel Sir R. W. Inglis, who was chairman of the London Stock Exchange Committee and of the Stock Exchange Benevolent Fund for some twelve years, passed away on tho 10th inst., in his eightieth year. Colonel Inglis was a brother of the Rev. G. B. Inglis, of Ashburton, and now of Mount Eden. At Monday's meeting of the St. Kilda Borough Council the mayor (Mr J. W. Dove) made feeling reference to the death of two very old residents of the borough—■ Mr Richard .Sandilands and Mr Ogier Denscm. Mr Sandilands had always been a prominent resident and citizen, and the council mourned the loss of such an old pioneer. Tho deceased was one of tho first members of the council, and had always manifested a keen interest in the affairs of the borough. The late Air Densem had been associated with tho conduct of the borough affairs for four years, and the council felt that they had last touch with another of the grand old r pioneers of the dominion. Although not exactly an old-timer, Mr Densem was one who had come out in the early days, and had taken a keen interest in tho affairs of the borough during his residence there. He moved— 1 " That the council places on record the irreparable loss sustained by Mrs Densem and her family, and extends its sincere sympathy in her bereavement,” He also proposed a similar motion with the relatives of the late Mr Sandilands. Tho motions wero carried in silence, and the council adjourned for five minutes as a mark of esteem to the deceased*