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Evening Star, Issue 22191, 20 November 1935, Page 11

PERSONAL

Messrs J. Sutherland Ross and G. W. Reid left for Wellington this morning to attend the annual meeting; of the Dominion Manufacturers’ Association.

Mr W. M. Sattherthwaite was a passenger by the express this morning,bound for Wellington. Professor Lawson left for Wellington to-day for the purpose of attending the annual meeting of the Carnegie- Education Research Council.

Mr H., A. Beauchamp, managing director of Kodak (N.Z.) Ltd:, who has been on a business visit to Dunedin, left this morning on his return to Wellington. !

The Minister of Finance announced yesterday that Mr Arthur Lewis Hempton, who was appointed chief auditor of the Bank of New Zealand for five years from DecerabeV 1, 1930, has been reappointed by the GovernorGeneral for a further period of five years.

At last night’s meeting of the Otago Centre of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association the president (Mr Guy Tapley) referred to the recent serious accident to Mr W. A. Stewart, the well-known University and Otago representative runner, and the hopa was expressed that he would, make a speedy recovery. The University Council yesterday accepted the resignation of Mr J. A; Jenkins from the position of* surgical tutor and second assistant to the professor of surgery in order to leave tha University entirely free in’ the reorganisation. of the department. As a token of esteem from the New, Zealand Returned - Soldiers Association a fine paua shell inkstand and pen have been presented to Sir Andrew and Lady Russell. Sir Andrew recently retired from the Dominion presidency* The stand is the work of disabled sol. diers working under the auspices of the Soldiers’ Civil Re-establishment League.-—Press Association. A motion of sympathy with the relatives of the'late Mr William Mills was passed at yesterday’s meeting of the Otago Society _ for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animal, it being reported that he was a sympathetic supporter of the society, of which he. was a member from 1885 to 1915. Reference to the church’s Jos# through the death of Mr J. B. Shackloot, who would be particularly missed from the church’s councils, and Mr R. t Rae, of Mornington, was made at today’s session of the Otago'and Southland Methodist Synod. < i Mr F. M. B. Fisher, a former Minister for Marine and Customs in New, Zealand, who has been living abroad for some years, will arrive-by the Rangitata on a holiday visit to the Do- i minion.

Mr W. B. Cunningham, formerly of Greymouth, the new manager of the local office of the Union Steam Ship Company, has arrived to take up his duties.

The Grand Hotel, register contains the following latest additions: —Mrs Yan Tammen (Java), Mr and Mrs A. W. Sneddon, Messrs T. W. West'and H. L. Cranswick (Sydney), Mr G. P. : Francis (Auckland), Mr' A. Jones (Masterton), Messrs J. H. Francis, A.Y. Shorter, B. Thomson,. G. L. L,Sheppard, D. F. Moncur, W. D. Raphael, 6. G. M'Farlane, and K. Bedford (Wellington), Messrs'T.'A. Campbell. P. Hockley, A. Mortimer, and G. S. M'Gallan (Christchurch), and Mr and Mrs Robinson (Ashburton). Captain J. Morrell, Mr C. T. Strother (Wellington), Mr-C. G. Tansey (Christchurch), Mr and Mrs E. Morgan, and Mrs J. Leask (St. Bathans) are guest# at the City Hotel.