PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 22517, 9 December 1936, Page 14

PERSONAL

Mr Adam Hamilton, M.P., the new leader of the National Party, was a through passenger for Wellington by the express from the south this morning. The Hon. J. A. Hanan, Chancellor of the University of New Zealand, left this morning for Wellington to attend a meeting to-morrow of the Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee. ■ Mr C. J. L. White left to-day for Auckland on business, and will afterwards remain there for the Christmas vacation.

Mr J. W. Timlin and Mrs Timlin, bound for Melbourne, were passengers for the north by the first express this morning. Prominent passengers on the Maunganui, which is engaged on a tourist cruise of the South Island, and berthed at Dunedin early this morning, include Professor A. H. Charteris, professor of history at the University of Sydney; Dr A. Martell Aspinall, of Sydney;,Mr E. F. Thomas, a wellknown New South Wales lawyer; and Mr J. W. R. French, manager of one of the city branches of the Bank of New South Wales in Sydney. At yesterday’s meeting of the University Council the appointment of Dr Charles E. Hercus, 0.8. E., D. 5.0., as Dean of,-the Medical Faculty, in place of Sir Lindo Ferguson, who is retiring, was confirmed. Dr Hercus, who has been sub-dean for the past 13 years, is professor of bacteriology at the University. He served with the New Zealand Medical Corps during the Great War, and was mentioned in despatches five times.

Madame Marguerite Zealanda, better known in musical circles throughout the Dominion as Daisy Hall, was a passenger by the Maunganui, which arrived at Dunedin from Sydney this morning. . ' The Museum Committee of the University Council recommended to the council yesterday afternoon that Mr H. I). Skinner be appointed curator of the Museum, and this was unanimously approved. Mention was made at last night’s meeting of the Chamber of Commerce to the impending departure from Dunedin of one of the council members, Mr P. N. Bundle, who had been an ardent worker for the chamber, and wherever ho went (members stated) he would have the chamber’s best wishes._ Mr Bundle, in returning thanks, said he had been happy during his nine years’ residence in Dunedin.

The Otago Hospital Board yesterday advised the University Council that Dr N. F. Greenslade had been appointed senior resident surgical officer. Among the arrivals by the Makura at Wellington yesterday from San Francisco were Sir Mark Sheldon and Lady Sheldon, who are returning to Sydney after a business trip to America and the United Kingdom. Also on hoard were Mr C. B. Howard, Liberal member of Parliament for Sherbrooke, Quebec, on his way to the British Empire Parliamentary Association Conference in Adelaide, Mr C. P. Sayers, joint general manager of Wilcox, Mofflin, and Co., Sydney, who has been on a business visit to Great Britain and America; and Drs H. Smith and G. W. Harty (of Wellington). Dr Smith, who is a prominent American physician and surgeon, is on a tour of New Zealand and trie South Seas.

Constable W. Herbison, who has received notice of transfer from the Dunedin district office of the Police Department to the Invercargill office, was met by his fellow-officers yesterday afternoon and presented with a fountain pen. Superintendent Rawle, who made the presentation, extended best wishes to Constable Herbison, and other speakers were Inspector Cameron, Senior-sergeant Packer, Constable Brown, and Constable Hausen. The members of the Christchurch branch of the Hamilton High School Old Boys’ Association on Monday night entertained at dinner Mr P. M. Lusk, an old boy of the Hamilton High School, who is one of this year’s nominees for a Rhodes scholarship from the University of Otago. The chairman of the branch (Major W. E. S. Furby) wished the guest success when he meets the Selection Committee at Wellington to-mor-row.

One of the most distinguished of New Zealand economists, Dr J. Condlitfe, is at present visiting the Dominion, before commencing work as professor of economics in the University of London. After holding the chair at Canterbury College, he was appointed Director of the Institute of Pacific Relations at Honolulu, He followed this work by an appointment to the League of Nations at Geneva, where for some years he has been responsible for the World Economic Survey. As one so well acquainted with economic and world affairs and _ one whose distinction has been so widely recognised abroad, his address to a combined meeting of the Institute of Pacific Relations and the League of Nations Union in the Theosophical Hall on Monday next should he of great interest.