PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 21469, 21 July 1933, Page 7

PERSONAL

—Ministerial.— The Minister of Public Works (Hon. J. Bitchener) passed through Dunedin yesterday afternoon on his way to Balcl- ”.ia. Last night he met . the members of the South Otago High School Board and discussed the question of additions to the South Otago High School, the Minister’s reply being that he realised the necessity for additional accommodation at the South Otago High School, and on his return to Wellington he proposed bringing the question of a, grant before Cabinet. Mr Bitchener, accompanied by his secretary (Mr W. I. Deavoll), returned this morning on his way to Timaru. Mr C. J. M'Kenzie, chief engineer of the Public Works Department, who has been in Dunedin for a few days, left on his return to Wellington this morning. Mr H. E. Moller was granted two months’ leave of absence by the Harbour Board last night, Mr Holler’s health recently suffered a setback. Reference to the deaths of Messrs E. E. Clowes, D. E. Theomin, and James Brown, and Mrs Renton (mother of the board’s secretary), and Mrs Thompson (widow of the late Captain Thompson) was made at last night’s meeting of the Harbour Board, which decided to send letters of sympathy to the relatives.

Mrs Ross, the Services’ queen in the carnival, was trained as a nurse in Edinburgh. Her London and Glasgow experience was not part of her nursing training, though she has nursed in both cities. She is chairwoman of the Sanatorium Committee of the Hospital Board, one of the original members of the Unemployed Women’s Committee, deputy president of the Ladies’ Cricket Association, a vice-president of the Ladies’ Hockey Association, member of ithe Women’s Club Executive, president of the Citizens’ Day Nurseries. Sirs Ross has been married fourteen years. Mr S. Newman, of the Nelson Bank of New Zealand staff, has received notice of transfer to Dunedin. Mr Newman is a Nelson representative cricketer, belonging to the Old Boys’' Club, and was a prominent Rugby player for the Pirates’ Club.

Miss E. Gedney, of Palmerston North, has been appointed matron of the Wallace Hospital, Riverton. At the weekly meeting yesterday of the Rotary Club reference was made by the president (Mr Magnus Johnson) to the death of Mr James Brown, who had been a foundation member and a past president of the club, and on Mr Johnson’s motion a resolution of sympathy with the widow and family was passed, the members standing in silence. Reference to the death of Mr Brown, who was recognised as the father of accountants in Dunedin, was made at a combined meeting of the Otago branch of the New Zealand Society of Accountants and the Commerce Faculty Ex-students’ Association last evening. As a mark of respect for Mr Brown those present stood in silence for a few moments. -

Reference was made at the annual dinner of the Otago branch of the Waitnki High School Old Boys’ Association last night to the death of the president of tile branch, Mr E. E. Clowes, and a motion of sympathy with the relatives was carried, those present standing in silence.

Mr Arthur W. Alloo, M.A., LLB., at present head master of the North-east Harbour School, has been appointed*by; the Nelson Education Board to the position of head master of the Grauity District High School. Mr Alloo entered the service of the Otago Education Board in 1910, as a pupil teacher at Kaikorai School, and attended the Dunedin Training College from 1910 to 1912, when he was appointed fourth assistant at Macandrew Road School.His next appointment was to the position of first assistant at the Albany Street School, and he became head teacher at North-east Harbour on the opening of the new school in that district.

The following persons resident in Otago have been appointed justices of the peace, the names being given in alphabetical order Messrs W G • Baird (St. Hilda), H. E. Barth (Roslyn),. P. Briscoe (Waitati), T. Brown (Waitati), W. Cooper (Dunedin), Arthur. Ellis (Roslyn), 0. L. Ferens (Kosiyn), J. R. Gilmour (Roxburgh), K. L. Gilmour (Waikaia), R. E. Grim! mett (Anderson’s Bay), J. Mathews (South Dunedin), J. D. Rutherford (Duntroon), W. Simpson (Tokarahi), T. Tomkins .(Green Island). A tribute to the memory of the late Mr James Horn is paid in the annual report of the Otago Expansion League, which states that by the death of Mr James Horn the league lost a most ' valued member, and Otago a prominent and patriotic citizen.- Since his early manhood he had been associated with the back country, and as ' settler,farmer, miner, local administrator, and member of Parliament he had left a history of which any man might well be proud. From the inception of the league he was interested in its aims and objects, and for many years he represented Central Otago in Parliament.The league had no firmer friend and no more powerful ally, as he brought to the consideration .of all questions an indomitable courage, a clear understanding, .and all the natural shrewdness and pertinacity of his race. The problems of the hinterland were especially his, and on such questions as the reading of the interior, the spread of irrigation, the growth of lucerne, and the search for gold he had a great practical knowledge and a keen insight. To few men had been given the opportunity for such a varied career,and fewer still had been so sincerely mourned. Courteous, unassuming, approachable, he _ was every man’s friend when engaged in the task of developing his adopted country. . Included in the Grand Hotel guest list are Mrs Stuart Schoular (Napier), Captain Sinclair Thompson, R.N., Mr. R. Maclauchlan (Wellington), Mr W, Hawkins (Christcnurch), and Mr R. : Stark (Oamaru). Recent arrivals at" the City Hotel include Mrs W. G. Rutherford, Mr Lloyd Mandeno (Auckland), Mr James Wilson (Timaru), Mrs W. Martin (Milton), Mr and Mrs Frank Webb, and Mr J. Cotterrill (Invercargill),