PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 22193, 22 November 1935, Page 11

PERSONAL

The Rev. E. O. Blamires-was S passenger for Timaru by to-day’s first express. ;

That the Rev. E. T. Cos be a minister left without pastoral charge was a recommendation to the forthcoming Methodist Conference passed at yesterday’s final session of the OtagoSouthland District Synod. Mr A. T. Donnelly, of. Christchurch.; has joined the board of directors of New Zealand Newspapers Ltd. ' • Sir Alexander Young has been nominated by the Royal Society for the Loder Cup, presented annually to tha person who contributes most'towards preservation of the Dominion’s native flora and fauna. The present holder isLord Bledisloc. Nominations will be’ closed on November 30, and it is understood there will be other names submitted. Constable B. .Sailings, of the local Police Force, has been detailed for dutv in Samoa. Mr Samuel G. H. Knox, works department employee, who has completed 44 years’ service with the City Council, lias notified his desire' to retire on superannuation at the end of December. The untimely death occurred thin morning of Mr Charles. i Vernon (“Peter”) Benzoiii, a well-known. Otago athlete, at-the age of 29 years, Ho was one of the most capable and popular young men associated with amateur athletics in Otago, unassuming but a highly efficient and enthusiastic official. and for 10 years he held the position of secretary of the Anglican Harrier and Amateur Athletic Club, guiding its activities during some of tha years of its greatest successes.. He also met with a fair amount of success as a distance runner, and won quite a few, of the club’s cups. Interested also in rowing, he was a member of the Otago Rowing Club’s maiden crew in ,1927. He had been laid aside by illness for a considerable time. New guests at the Grand Hotel ara ; Messrs J. R. Rutland, R. Hislop, S, Harrawell, and E. B, Frasei- (Anck. land), Air S. J. Land (Havelock North), Captain . George , Prictor, Messrs C. G. M'Farlane, K. Belford, and Miss D. E. Bray (Wellington). Messrs £T, Anderson, P. Hpckley, and A. Mortimer (Christchurch), and Dr W. A, Anderson (Queenstown).