PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 21170, 2 August 1932, Page 9

PERSONAL

Mr L. J. Bayfield, of the tourist office at Rotorua, has been on a visit to Dunedin and left this morning. Mr Archibald Smellie was a passenger for Wellington by the mail train to-day, Mr R. W. Gibbs, of the Bank of New: Zealand staff at Wellington, is on his way back after a visit to Dunedin.

Mr H. L. Gibson, railway traffic manager, went to Timaru to-day, and expects to return on Thursday or Friday. Mr O. L. Ferens, secretary of tho Dunedin Returned Soldiers' Association, will leave for Queenstown tomorrow morning to represent the local association at a reunion of ex-service-men there on Thursday night. On Friday Mr Ferens w[jl go to Invercargill to discuss association and Flock House business with the local executive, and on Saturday morning he will return to Dunedin.

Cr J. Craigie has forwarded his resignation as a member of the Port Chalmers Borough Council. Mr Craigie has been a councillor for tho past five years, and l has rendered good service in _ all departments of the council’s activities.

Mr A. Dawson, chief postmaster at Wanganui, retired yesterday after thirty-seven and a-half years’ service m the department. Miss Marie Patton has received word of her application having been accepted as a trainee in the New Plymouth Hospital, and leaves for the north on Monday next. She enters the hospital on August 17. In to-day’s death notices will bo an announcern ent of the passing of Mr Janies Henry Tregear. He was yard foreman at the Dunedin Railway Station for a number of years, and was very much respected in the service and by all who knew him. Ho retired some time ago. At the annual dinner of the Otago High School Old Boys’ Society tho chairman (Mr J. J. Mallard) referred to the death of Mr Peter Walker Aitken, an ex-dux of the school, and one who had had a great future before him. A motion of sympathy with Mr Aitken’s widow and relatives was passed.

To mark his eighty-fifth birthday and his recent retirement from his T or w as S commercial traveller, Captain A. W. Owles, of New Brighton, was presented with a case of pipes by the Canterbury Commercial Travellers’! Association on Saturday night. In asking Mr W. A. Drake to make the presentation, the president, Mr A, L., Tucker, described Captain Owles as a young old man.” Mr Drake said that it spoke volumes for their calling when a man could reach the age of eighty-five as a commercial traveller., Captain Owles had been patron of nearly every sports body in New Brighton, had been a borough councillor for nineteen years, and had been mayor for a term. He had been a foundation member of the Canterbury Commercial Travellers’ Association and had been a member of the Otago Association for thirty years. . Tim guest list at the Grand Hotel includes Captain and Mrs M. Polley (Auckland), Messrs J. S. Nicol andi R. Moataa Doughty (Wellington), Mr, and Mrs W. 0. Campbell (Christ* church), Mr J. S. Longford (Hoki* tika), Mrs Routledge (Temuka), Mr J. N. M'Gregor (Mount Linton), and Mrs W. S. and Miss M. Todd (Invercargill). Visitors to the City Hotel include Mr W. R. Coles (Christchurch), Mrs N. Dickinson, Mr H. M. Thomas (Oamaru), Mrs J. E. Hanna (Kurow) 4 and Dr R. H. Howells (Invercargill)*