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Evening Star, Issue 21233, 14 October 1932, Page 9

PERSONAL

Mr F. Waite was a passenger by this morning’s south express. Mr A. E. Russell (chairman of the Otago Electric Power Board) went through to Balclutha this morning after having attended a meeting of the Dominion Executive of the Power Boards’ Association in Wellington. A Press Association telegram from Wellington states that Mr K. H. Melvin, or the Auckland University College, was adjudged the winner of the first three-yearly Bledisloe Oratory Medal, his subject being ‘ James Busby.’ The. runner-up was Mr M. G. Sullivan, of Auckland, whose subject was ‘ Bishop Sehvyn.’ Mr H. Atmore presided, and His Excellency Lord Bledisloe presented the medal. A Nelson Press Association telegram announces the death of Mr John Bannerman Ingram, aged seventy-two, of Richmond, a well-known resident of the Nelson district for many years. Mr W. J. Bardsley, of Dunedin, who was elected vicepresident of the New Zealand Baptist Union yesterday, and who is therefore the president-elect, has been associated with the Baptist denomination since he was a boy and has passed through all phases of church activity. He was first at North-east Valley, Dunedin, then at the Hanover Street Church, later taking up work at Napier, Wellington, and Timaru. After a year’s tour overseas, accompanied by his wife, Mr Bardsley has just retired from the secretaryship of the Otago Harbour Board, a position he held for eighteen years. Previously he held a similar position for the Timaru Harbour Board for twelve years. The death occurred at Wellington yesterday of Mr Fergus Macpherson, after a long illness. Mr Macpherson was fifty-eight years of age. He was born at Lyttelton and educated at the Cathedral Grammar School and the Christchurch Boys’ High School. On leaving school he took up a commercial career, joining the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company in 1900. He rose to the of accountant at Christchurch, and in 1913 was appointed agent for ■ the company at Rakaia. In 1915 he joined the inspection department of the company at Wellington, and some years ago received the post of inspector for New Zealand, a position _he held until Ins death. Both in business and privately Mr Macpherson had many friends and was highly respected. _ Writing to a friend in Dunedin, tn© Rev. James Burns, who preached for about a year at Knox Church, imparts the welcome news that Mrs Burns, who recently suffered a serious illness, is now well on the way to recovery. Mr Burns adds that be occasionally meets Dunedin people in the Old Country, and is always pleased to bear the news from this part of the world. _ _ Having lived in the dominion tor ninety-two years,. Mrs Elizabeth Neal,widow of Captain William Neal, for a long time master of the Union Company’s tender Snafik, died at Gisborne last night at the age of ninety-three. She was born in Edinburgh Castle, her father having been in the Black Watch. She landed in New Zealand an infann in arms, and spent most of her childhood years in Wellington, and later in Manawatu and Hawke’s Bay. She had been a resident of Gisborne for fortysix years.—Press Association. New visitors to the Grand Hotel inelude Mr R. S. Smith (Wellington), Dr P. Clennell Fenwick, Major W. E. S. ; Furby (Christchurch), and Mr and Mrs A. D. and Miss B. Bell (Shag valley^