PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 21966, 28 February 1935, Page 11

PERSONAL

Dr P. E. Allison arrived in Dunedin yesterday afternoon to attend the Medical Conference. Major-general S. R. Davidson, late of the Indian Army, and now residing in England, is at present visiting Dunedin. Mr A. G. W. Dunningham, librarian of the Dunedin Public, Library, who has been travelling through America and England for the purpose of studying modern library methods, returned to Dunedin yesterday. Mr A. H. Fisher, has been appointed a vice-president of the Dunedin Publio Art Gallery Society in place of the late Sir John Roberts, and Mr John Lusk has been appointed to the vacancy thus caused on the eommitee of the society. The sudden death occurred last evening at Greymouth of a well-known resident, Mr Clement Bundle; aged fiftyseven. While seated beside a footpath in Griffin’s Hill conversing with others, the deceased fell. A doctor was summoned, but death followed in fifteen minutes. Mr Bundle suffered from heart trouble. The respect and esteem in which the' late Mr W. E. M‘Lean was held during his life and the shock his sudden death gave to the community were manifested m the large and representative attendance at the funeral yesterday at Mosgiel. It was one of the largest funeral corteges ever seen in the district, and all classes of the community were represented. His six sons acted as pallbearers, and the Rev. S. C. Francis conducted the burial service. The members of Lodge St. John. No. 84, Mosgiel. attended in regalia. Floral tri-' butes and sympathetic messages were received from all over New Zealand. Cabled advice has been received from the head office of the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company Ltd. that the directors have promoted Mr C. Shann to the chief office for the South Island at Christchurch as branch superintendent. Mr Shann. who is at present local manager for the company at Dunedin, will be succeeded by Mr H. C. Hartley, the coriipany’s inspector for Canterbury, The city librarian (Mr A. G. W. Dunningham) having returned from America and England, Mr E. -H. M'Comick has completed his term as acting librarian. Dr C. Laws, who has been attending the Methodist conference, left thia morning to return to Auckland. Ha, is advised that his son has gained tha degree of Doctor of Science. Mr C. F. Anderson, special representative of the United States Postal Administration in the Antarctic Expedition, left Dunedin for the north thia morning, intending to proceed to America by the Mariposa. Mr W. R. Setter, in the audit branch of the Railway Department, left Dunedin for Wellington to-day. Mr Maurice Fitchett, appointed, ta the Fuchsia Creek School in North Otago, travelled thither by train today. The British and Finnish athletes, - with Captain Evan A. Hunter as manager, went from Dunedin to Christchurch by the 11.35 train to-day. Mr John A. Haggitt and his wife were farewelled on the Dunedin station this morning. They are going for.ii prolonged tour via Australia and South •Africa to England and then -to what-.-ever places they choose, . and may ■ be absent for some time, for Mr Haggitt has given up his business on the Stock Exchange after a membership «jf twenty-six years. Members oi the Stock Exchange gave him a send-off at the Grand Hotel yesterday. The high credentials that Mr Haggitt possesses as a musician will assure him of welcome by musicians in any country. From the Royal Male Choir he carries an introduction to kindred societies by, which it is officially qstated that he is holder of the golden , lyre, the highest order of merit given by the society, awarded only for signal services, Mr J. R. Dench, managing director of Distributors Ltd., who has been in Dunedin bn business, returned to Christchurch by to-day’s express. Congratulations were offered the Rev, A. C. Lawry, of Geraldine, at the Methodist Church of New Zealand conference this morning on attaining his jubilee in the ministry. At this morning’s ■ session of the Methodist Church of New Zealand conference Dr 0. H. Laws was congratulated on the achievement of his son Charles, who had just been granted the degree of doctor of science of the New Zealand University, the highest that can be conferred. . The Right Rev. John Mackenzie, M. D.D., a former resident of Geraldine (Canterbury), who has been minister of the Toorak Presbyterian Church, Melbourne, and Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Victoria, lias been honoured by the Edinburgh University, which has conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Divinity, in recognition of his service to tha church. Sub-inspector Fox, of Christchurch, now promoted from senior-sergeant rank, will be transferred to Auckland, and will be replaced in Christchurch by Senior-sergeant Caldwell, officer in charge of the Taranaki street police station, Wellington. _ Sub-In-spector Fox entered the police forca in 1906, and after a period in tha training depot, at Wellington wag transferred to Dunedin as a constable. After seven years he was transferred to Milton, and in 1920, while, he waa still there, he was promoted to sergeant, and appointed to the Auckland station. He was subsequently transfen ed to Westport, and then to Invercargill, receiving his promotion _ta senior-sergeant at the latter station, in 1928. Since then he has been, at Christchurch. Lieutenant-colonel P. H. Bell, N. yesterday visited the Wai,taki Boys’ High School, where he presented two" cadet trophies, and later left for Sutton, Central, Otago, to .inspect the camp of the Sixteenth' (Christchurch) Battery. ■Mr R. Bauchop, whose death took place in Wellington yesterday, was on* of the founders of the Port Chalmers Foqtball.Club. He also took an active part in tennis, cricket, and harriers,After returning from Sydney, where ha practised his profession as an. architect,Mr Bauchop took charge of his father’s saw-milling and building business 'at Port Chalmers. He was an active member of the local debating club, and for a time had charge of the Naval Cadets.Mr Bauchop won many friends hy hi* 1 , gentle, courteous manner, and fine taste' in English literature. - The Mayor of Auckland (Mu G. W, Hutchison) was to-day unanimously reelected chairman of the. Auckland Milk Council. Mr Hutchison, ‘who will not be a candidate for re-election to tha mayoralty, is one of three nominees of the City Council on the Milk Council.— Auckland Press Association.

Visitors staying at the Grand. Hotel include Sir Robert M‘Anderson (Sydney). Dr and Mrs Alan Park, Mr Gy Robertson (Wellington), Dr and Mrs Reay, Dr E. N. Guthrie, and Mrs Gray (Christchurch). :