PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 20666, 13 December 1930, Page 17

PERSONAL

Bishop Richards went to Kurow to* day, proposing to return on Monday. Mr G. Anderson, headquarters Railway Department, came from Invercargill this morning and went on for Wellington. Mr C. H. Griffiths, -who lias just retired on superannuation from tho Hillside raihvay workshops staff, left to-day for Christchurch, where ho intends to reside.

Dr A. 11. Falconer wont off to-day by train for Wellington to meet Dr Ralph Noble, psychiatrist at tho Sydney University, who represented the Commonwealth and also the New Zealand National Council for Mental Hygiene at tho recent conference on mental by- • gieno at Washington. Dr Noble is to give an address at Wellington on Monday. The Rev. W. Lamb, formerly pastor of the Tabernacle at Sydney, now a famous writer and lecturer on Adventist subjects, is to come to New Zealand shortly, and is expected to deliver a public address at Dunedin in March, tie began his career in Dunedin. The town clerk (Mr G. A. Lcwin)' returned to Dunedin from Wellington last night. Dr W. R. Fca will leave Timnru shortly on a visit to England to further his studies. Mr A. J. Morisoir, of Hillside 'Workshops, has again been elected as representative for the South Island workshops on the National Executive Council of tho Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants. Miss Viva Fiulayson secured first place for Dunedin Centrp Government shorthand and typists’ examination. Miss Finlayson is 15 years of age, and had only eighteen months’ tuition. She is a pupil at Rossbotham College. At the recent Government examinations for shorthand-typists, held in Brown’s Commercial College, the ing candidates were successful:—lnter-' mediate special. Misses K. Sullivan and A. F. Ross. Senior, Misses M. Watt (first order of merit) and E. Milligan. Junior- -Misses E. M‘Lean (second order of merit), S. E. Wilson, K. -Mj Fleming, N. A. Tyrrell, F. G. Bachop, E, G. Souness, M. E. Etheridge, C. M. E. Lee, D. R. M‘Dowall, F. 1. Cameron, E. L. Allan, D. M. Gerken, M. L. Rage, D. F. Rrasier, A. D. L. Maxwell. V. L. Crimp, D. R. Salmon, G. L. Shanks, W. A. Morton, R. Woodward, and 0. M, Rlunkett. A Nelson Press Association telegram announces the death of Henry Baigent, aged 78, owner of Masonic Hotel, an ex-city councillor, and a past president of tne jockey and trotting clubs. En route to Auckland and Sj’dney, Count W. Von Rufs (Zurich, Switzerland, who has been staying in Dunedin for the last two days, left by the express this morning. Mr V. H. Goddard (Wellington), Mr and Mrs T, Vickery, and Mr V. M‘Kibbon (Christchurch) . ana registered at the Gi’and Hotel. Mrs Eleanor Farnie, of Neidpath. road, Mornington, died this morning, aged ninety-one, after being laid asido for four months. This lady came out by the ship Silistria in 18G2. was married in Dunedin to Captain William Farnie, a master mariner. The elder sou of the union was Mr Thomas Cheyne Farnie, who became first assistant at the Normal School, then studied for and entered tho legal profession, associated in partnership witli Mr Owen Hodge. Mr T. C. Farnie died at Geraldine in May of this year. His younger brother, Mr Ernest Farnie,’ is Commissioner of Crown Lands at Gisborne. Among those staying at the Excelsior Hotel are Mr G. Hill (Auckland), Messrs E. Shep-Dixon and S.’ SchneideUjan (Wellington), and Mr and Mrs VV. Andrews (Christchurch). City Hotel guests: Mr G. Finn (Auckland). Mr R. A. Wilkie (Timaru), Miss M. Tempero (Oamaru), Mr and Mrs J. T. Preston (Galloway), Mr J. T. N. Grant (Cromwell), Dr R. H. Hogg, and Messrs R. B. Rose and W. Y. Campbell (Invercargill).