PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 21820, 8 September 1934, Page 13

PERSONAL

Mr S. Q. Styche left this morning for Rotorua and Suva on annual holiday leave. All the visiting Fellows of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons who have been attending the_ conference in Dunedin left for their- homes this morning by the through express. Mr W. R. Ritchie Ictt for Wellington to-day after a holiday visit to Dunedin. Mr H. J. Buck, manager for New Zealand of Lysaght and Co;, left on his return for Wellington this morning. Messrs A. E. Russell (chairman), L, W. -Potter (secretary), and. R v . D. : Veitch (engineer), of the Otago Electrio Power Board, left for Wellington this morning to attend the annual conference of power boards. Mr W. J. Bardsley, president of the Baptist Union, left this morning on a visit to the southern Baptist churches. Dr Campbell Begg, who has been in Dunedin attending the College of Surgeons, _ left on his return to Wellington this morning. Mr W. W. Callender, local manager of the Alliance Assurance Office, who has been spending some six weeks in Australia, returned to Dunedin last evening. ‘ . Mr/ James Ritchie ■ returned from Wellington yesterday. Mr C. B. M'Lean :has been elected chairman and Mr D. C. M'Phcrson vice-president of the Otago Chapter of the New Zealand Institute of Certified Secretaries. _ Dr F. Sligo, who has been practising in England for the past two years and a-half, returned to New Zealand by the Port Hobart, which arrived at Lyttelton yesterday, and will make a short stay in Dunedin.

The Samoan correspondent of the Press Association states that Chief Judge Luxford, whose term of office in Western Samoa terminates in September, when he and Mrs Luxford return to New Zealand, was the guest of tho native officials of the .territory and ■_ a large gathering of natives at Mulinmi. - The function was' attended by the’Administrator and the heads of departments and officials. ’The chief judge had been brought into close touch with' the Samoans during his five years of residence in Samoa. . The proceedings comprised first a fono at which speeches were made by the Administrator. and the Hon. Mataafa, and then a feast provided by the native hosts, with sivas and songs following.- ' The . tribute had been arranged spontaneously _by the native officials, and was carried out with an earnestness which showed the esteem in which they hold the guest of honour.—Press Association.