PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 21116, 31 May 1932, Page 9

PERSONAL

Hon. C. E. Macmillan (Minister of Agriculture) arrived in Dunedin from the north last evening. This morning lie received deputations at the Grand Hotel, and later addressed the annual Otago Provincial Conference of the Farmers’ Union. This afternoon Mr Macmillan officially opened the Winter Show.” To-morrow morning the Minister leaves for Wellington. Dr Marshall Macdonald has accepted a position on the War Pensions Board, rendered vacant through the death of Dr Izard. As he will have to spend a good deal of his time in Wellington and in visiting other parts of New Zealand, it will be necessary for him to retire from the Dunedin Hospital honorary staff, on which he has served for more than thirty years, and from the University Council and High Schools’ Board. Although he will be absent a good deal from Dunedin, he will for the present, at least, retain his home here. Messrs R. Rutherford and C. Baker were elected life members of the Otago Acclimatisation Society at the annual meeting last night, in recognition of their services on the council.

At last night’s conference of the Otago Provincial Council of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union resolutions of sympathy were passed with the relatives of Mr David Smollett and Mr Duncan MTntosh, two member who recently died. At the recent Christchurch competitions Mr Clarence Paine, of Dunedin,was successful in winning the men’s elocution champonship (gold medal). Miss Loretto Kay gained first prize and a third in elocution, also second prize, with Miss Daphne Irwin, in the cEaracter dance duo, third prize, with Miss Daphne Irwin, in the operatic dance duo (any age). Miss Daphne Irwin gained third prize in the character story dance (any age). At the annual meeting of the Otago Acclimatisation Society last night the president (Mr S. F. Aburn) referred to the loss the society had suffered by the deaths of Mr S. Cousins and Mr R, H. Cowan. Mr Cousins, he said, was one who for many years past was intimately associated with the society. In fact, he had the honour of being a life member, an honour worthily earned, as an acknowledgment of all he had done to further their interests -in. every way. Mr Cousins had an inborn love of "Nature in all her beautiful forms, and was well known as one of the leading floriculturists of the dominion, his fame as a rose grower being known from Auckland to Bluff._ Ha took an intense interest in all their doings, and they and New Zealand were the poorer for his decease. Mr Cowan was, perhaps, not so well known, but his work was none the less valuable to the society. The death is announced at Hawera of Mr William Janson, aged fifty-nine, branch manager of the National Dairy Association. The deceased left with the main body of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force as a lieutenant in. the Wellington _ Mounted Rifles, and was mentioned in despatches on Gallipoli. He was transferred to the artillery, and saw service in France, attaining the rank of major. He was at one time secretary of the Wellington Kennel Club. New visitors to the Grand Hotel, include the following:—Mr A. GGraham (Auckland), the Hon. C. E.Macmillan (Tauranga), Mr W. J. Poison (Stratford), Mr S. D._ M'Dougall (Martinborough), Messrs W. R. King,; Walter E. and Gordon J. Reid, C,Loughlin, and F. H. Whatley (Wellington), Mr and Mrs J. D. Hall, Mr and Mrs J. B. Neale (Christchurch), Messrs F. H. Tucker, R. D. Lumsden, and R. R. Binney (Invercargill), and Mr J.R. Wilson (Tawanui). Lat arrivals at the City Hotel include Dr Mac Gibbon (Christchurch), Miss M. M'Quilkiu (Ashburton), Miss F. and Mr A. H. Chapman (Kurow), Mr and Mrs W. Hotop, Mrs A. Warhurst, Miss Nelson (Cromwell), Mr and Mrs W. Shea (Wedderburn). Mrs E. and Miss Rogers, and Mr J. A. Storrie (Invercargill).