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Evening Star, Issue 21078, 15 April 1932, Page 9

PERSONAL

Dr C. P. De Monchaux, radiologist at the Dunedin Hospital, returned yesterday after a month’s holiday visit to Australia. Dr G. E. Thompson (chairman) and Mr C. R. M‘Lean (secretary) of the Otago High Schools’ Board, returned yesterday from Wellington after attending a conference of secondary schools’boards. The members of the Railway Board and the General Manager of Railways (Mr P. G. Roussell) left for Wellington this morning by the north express. The board arrived from Roxburgh yesterday afternoon, and last evening Mr Roussell was present at an informal meeting of the Chamber of Commerce. Reference was made at the annual meeting of the Dunedin Hospital Guild yesterday to the recent deaths of Mesdames H. Guthrie, B. H. Hart, and M'Gill. A motion of sympathy with the relatives was passed. A Press Association telegram from Wellington states that a 1 Gazette ’■ notice issued last night announces that Mr John George Lewis Hewitt, stipendiary magistrate, of Marton, has been appointed a member of the Government Railways Appeal Board and chairman of the board; . ■ Advice has been received that the forthcoming practical examinations o£ the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music will be conducted by Mr Alfred Quaife, a English authority. After receiving his . early, musical education, at the Brighton School of Music Mr Quaife entered the Royal Academy in 1905. studying the pianoforte under Mr Sydney Blakeston and Mr Frederick Moore, harmony under Mr Frederick Carder, singing under Mr Frederic King, and the French horn under Mr Borsedorff. For. some years he played the tympani in tho senior orchestra. After Igaviug the Royal Academy Mr Quaife made his debut at a promenade concert at Queen’s Hall, when Sir Henry Wood conducted the first performance m England of the GlazounoW pianoforte concerto in F minor. He has since given many recitals and public performances at Queen’s Hall, Wigmore Hall, and the Pavilion (Bournemouth), where .he played for the British Broadcasting Company. Mr Quaife has also acted as judge at leading musical festivals. He saw service during the war, and on resuming his musical activities m 1918 was appointed an examiner to the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, in which capacity he has undertaken examination tours in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The Rev. A. Bruce Todd, a wellknown Presbyterian minister, attended a gathering at Karori last night, and on leaving the hall ran a short distance to the tram stop. He boarded a tram and returned home unwell.Subsequently he became worse and died about midnight (states a Wellington message). ... A Wellington Press Association telegram states that Mr Oliver Nicholson has been elected chairman of the Bank of New Zealand. A Press Association cable message from London states that the King has approved of the hward of the Royal Geographical Society medal to Mr Watkins for his work in connection with tho British Arctic air route expedition. Mr W. Thompson, whose death took place on Wednesday as the result of an accident on the railway at Port Chalmers, was bom at Lomond Bay, Lyttelton, sixty-six years ago. He had resided at Port Chalmers practically all his lifetime. For many years he was a member of the fire brigade, served on the school committee, was senior deacon at the Congregational Church, and an active member of the Druids’ and Masonic lodges. _ , , . New bookings at the Grand Hotel include Captain R. A. Briggs, Mr J. P. Macneil (Melbourne), Messrs J. Rosenberg and R. T. Postles (Auckland), Messrs P. G. Roussell, J. H. Bell, H,H. Le Pine, and A. A. Kelly (Wellington), Mr Edward Newman (Marton), and Messrs H, M. Aitken, P. A* Holmes, and R. D. Lumsden (IntercarS City Hotel guests: Mrs W. Lison, Miss M. Cracroft-Wilson, Mr C. T. Strother (Christchurch), Mr J. Perry (Gore), and Mr R. Mason (InvercargilD- ■