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Evening Star, Issue 21620, 16 January 1934, Page 7

PERSONAL

Mr J. M. Fraser, president of the Otago Cricket Association, left this morning to attend a meeting of the New Zealand Cricket Council in Christchurch.

Mr J. A. Lindsay, railway traffic manager at Invercargill, arrived in Dunedin this morning;

A largely-attended civic reception was given by the Mayor of Auckland (Mr G. W. Hutchison) yesterday to Dr H. Benzion Shein, official propagandist of the. World Zionist organisation. He was afterwards entertained by the Rotary Club. Mr J. D. Hutchison, a Christchurch solicitor, who has specialised in transport law, has been appointed chairman of the No. 8 Transport Licensing Authority, which, with the exception of the Christchurch Tramway District, operates in Canterbury from the Waitaki River to the Clarence River. Mr Hutchison is a son of Mr J. Hutchison* editor of the ‘ Otago Daily Times.’ At the opening of the New Zealand University Senate meeting at Wellington to-day, the Chancellor, Professor Macmillan Brown, expressed regret at the deaths during the year of Sir. Thomas Sidey, Mr J. W. Joynt (for many years registrar), and the following examiners:—Professor F. W. Dunlop, who occupied the chair of philosophy in Otago University from 1913 to 1933, Professor A. C. Paterson, who held the chair of classics in Auckland University College from 1924 to 1932,. and Mr M. L. MacCallum, of Sydney, a former Rhodes Scholar, who examined in jurisprudence and Roman law. Referring to Sir Thomas Sidey, the Chancellor said:—He was one of the earliest; students' of Otago University, and ho. died its chancellor. As a Scot and a member and representative of a Scotch; community he was certain to take a j deep interest in university education.; But eVen had he had no such environment his own highly culitared mind and beneficent temperament would have led him to watch oyer and befriend educatipn, the main chance ,of making de- : mocracy honest and efficient. _ The Kent Terrace Presbyterian congregation is addressing a call to the Rev. H. Gilmour, of Balmoral (Auckland) to succeed the Rev. J. Baird* who has been called to Timaru.—Wellington Press Association. A Press Association cable message states that the Hon. Norah Jellicoe is affianced to Mr Edward William Rhys Wingfield, of the Sixtieth Rifles, a son of the late Captain and Lady Violet Wingfield.

The Grand Hotel guest list includes Lady Bourne (Pretoria, South Africa), Mr and Mrs A. Peters (Ascot, England), Mr F. L. Martin (Melbourne), Mr and Mrs C. H. Sykes, Misses Marie and Pamela Sykes (Menzie’s Bay), Mr and Mrs Handson Abel (Auckland), Mr J. Davies (Wellington), Mrs and Miss Armstrong, Mr G. G. Hart (Christchurch), Miss E. N. Wesney, (Gore), Mr D. J. Wesney (Invercargill).