PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 19408, 17 November 1926, Page 5

PERSONAL

■ ’At yesterday’s meeting of'the University Council the resignation was received of Dr Lillian B. Storms, lecturer in applied chemistry in the home science department. The resignation, which is to take effect from June 1 next, was accepted with regret. It is understood that Dr Storms intends returning to America. Captain. Donald MacPhee, the master of the overseas steamer Strathlorne, which is at present discharging phosphates at Port Chalmers,, previously visited this port under exceptional circumstances. He w f as a youth on the sailing ship Samuel Plimsoll when that well-known sailer reached Port Chalmers in a dismasted condition some years ago. The Plimsoll was afterwards towed to Australia by the Duckenfield, and converted into a hulk. Mr Charles Grey has. resigned his position as general manager of the Bruce Woollen Manufacturing Company. He was appointed business manager and secretary when the company was formed in 1896, and wms made general manager in 1004. He is to bo succeeded by Mr Edward Moore in January next. Mr Moore, who finished his education at the Otago Boys’ High School, was for five years secretary of the South Otago Freezing Company, then secretary-manager of the Farmers’ Co-operative Freezing Company at Pukcuri, and_ latterly he has served as accountant in the Dunedin office of the National Mortgage and Agency Company. Staying at the Grand Hotel are Messrs F. J. Coufoy and A. Aubrey (Melbourne), Messrs G. Wilson, W. Havcrlry, R. Keraplan, and W. Cahill (Wellington), Mr D. Phill (Christchurch). Mr and Mrs Frank D. Bell, of Shag Valley Station, Waihemo. who have been on an extended tour of Britain and the Continent, returned to Dunedin by the Tainui to-day. The death occurred yesterday of Mr Charles Lewis Cuthbert Fenwick, sharebroker, and member of tho firm of .-Fenwick Brothers. The morning call-ovcr on tho Dunedin Stock Exchange was adjourned on account of his death, and reference was made to his popularity as a business man to his cheerfulness of manner. Mr Fenwick was treasurer of the Anderson’s Bay School Ex-pupils’ Association, and some years ago was a member of tbe Carisbrook Cricket Club’s first eleven. A cable message from Melbourne states that Major-general Sellheim lias boon appointed Administrator of Norfolk Island.

Mr Axel Newton, organist of Chalmers Presbyterian Church, Thnaru, has been appointed organist of St. Matthew’s Church, Dunedin. A Sydney message states that the Rev. George Walters, a prominent Unitarian minister and lecturer, was knocked down by a motor car and killed. He was seventy-three years of age. Private advice was received in Dunedin this morning of tho death at Christchurch of Mr V/alter Hill, known throughout New Zealand as chairman of the woolhuyers. He was also chairman of the Christchurch Drainage Board. The deceased slipped and fell on the Riccarton grand stand last week, sustaining injuries to his head. Mr Hill was continuously in the woolbuying since he arrived in New Zealand in 1891, and he was looked up to by brokers and sellers and all who knew him as a type of probity and sound judgment. When the Government commandeered the wool clips at tho time of tho war Mr Hill was the man selected to take detail control. That fact stands as an example of the trust reposed in him.