PERSONAL

Grey River Argus, 23 March 1928, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr J. Boss was a passenger to Hokitika by last night’s express. Mr P. Creagh was a visitor yesterday to Greymouth from Hokitika. Miss G. Dumplcton returned to Greymouth by yesterday’s express. Mr and Mrs Abe Dowell, formerly of Kokatahi, arrived from Canterbury by the express yesterday. Mrs W. P. Hambleton left yesterday on a visit to her sister-in-law, Mrs A. R. Portcous, Wellington. Sergeant D. C. Beard, who has been transferred by the Police Department, left yesterday for Wellington. Mr Arthur Bigncll, Chairman of the Wanganui Harbour Board, arrived yesterday from Christchurch. The South Australian bowling team left yesterday by the express for Christchurch. Mrs A. Torrance and Miss J. Torrance returned by yesterday’s express from Dunedin. Mr C. Biggs, of the Forestry Department’s clerical staff here, returned yesterday after a visit to Rotorua. Mr Harry Moss, of Wellington, arrived yesterday on a visit to his relatives here. Mr A. D. McGavock, Conservator of State Forests for Westland, returned yesterday from a visit to Rotorua. Mr N. Griffen, of the Railway Goods Sheds staff, who has been appointed stationmaster at Riversdale, left yesterday for Otago. Mr B. J. McManus left yesterday for ■Lyttelton, to the Railway shipping >taff of which port he has been transferred from Greymouth. The Grey County Council yesterday granted Councillor J. R. Irvine two iionths’ leave of absence, owing to ill lealth. |Mr Smith, County Roadman at |ha.ura, is at. present, a patient at the grey River Hospital with an attack of sphtheria, |M.r J. Hislop, Under-Secretary for ■eternal Affairs, retires on superannation in three months’ time, after bng 43 years in the public service. |\fr Albert E. Fowler, Commissioner odTaxes, since 1914, who has been 43 vjtrs a public servant, is shortly reting on superannuation. sergeant D. Beard, who was a popukEmember of the United Cricket Club, w| presented by his club mates with a.locket wallet as a mark of esteem, pi|r to his departure on promotion to Wllington. ir James I). Gray, Secretary of the D(|irtmen.t of External Affairs, is retirig from the public service at tEt cnJof March. He was formerly a pref man, a Hansard reporter and a miAterial secretary. M F. S. Hayes, of the Westport Schld staff, has been appointed headmaslr of Murchison School, and his depjiture will be a loss to Buller RugL Union) of which he has been Sccrlary. | A london cable announces the death of life Williim Terry, who founded the life Savibg Society, because he was Io appalled at the number of drown.ngs. IJ± methods of resusciation still ip vogue in Britain. By yesterday’s express there left Greymouth Mewrs H. Green (Acting Railway Traffic (Manager), J. McNair, J. Steer, W. P.l McCarthy, R. J. McManus, A. Smith, J. T. Cooper, A. Drayton, N. Grinen, and A. Ollivcr.

Mr Herbert Chimpan, District Railway Traffic Manager for Canterbury and Westland, his announced his impending retirement from the railway service, after beink a member of it for 39 years. His metical adviser has advised this course. •

At the Borough' Council last evening, on the motion! of the Mayor (Mr J. W. Greensladc) biassed a motion of sympathy with. Mr; G. Perotti, Mr A. Pcrotti, and the Nisses Perotti, of London, on the death in London recently of their mother, members standing in silence. The Mayor said the Perotti family had played a prominent and creditable part in the history of IGreymouth, and Councillors were desirous ,of ’their sympathy with them in their bereavement.

An Auckland wire records the death kt the Leper Island of Makogai of the feev. Father Nieouleau, who contracted leprosy there after years of work imong the lepers whom he tended unceasingly. He was 62 years old, and a Native of France, which he left 36 Jcars ago to work jn the Pacific Islands as a missionary. Some fifteen |ears ago he went as chaplain to the bpc r island, and as he foresaw the diseiso itself eventually claimed him as a |ietim. He laboured among the natives with whom he lived since he was till near the end, when his si Herings prostrated him.

•Bombardier A. G. Jenkins, the man wiio fired the first shell in the Great War from a British gun, on August 22, 1014, at a place called Binchie, arrived in Greymouth yesterday by ear frjnn Christchurch. He is travelling with the British war film “Mons,” wl ich will be screened at Greymouth Monday and Tuesday in the Opera H(juse, and prior to the screening, Bombardier Jenkins gives an explanatory lecture on the retreat from Mons by the “Old Contemptibles, ” of whom he was a member, he having served 12 years in the British army, including the war period. Special provision is being made for school children to view the film on Monday afternoon. At Christchurch over 3800 children saw the picture, and 800 Territorials and Cadets.

The following additional appointments to the Massey Agricultural College are announced: Agricultural Zoology, Dr F. W. Dry, M.Sc., D.Sc., of Leeds, England. Since 1921 Ackroyd Memorial Research Fellow at Leeds University, and for four years assistant Government entomologist in Kenya Colony. Veterinary, pathology and annual husbandry, Mr J. McClinderJ M.R.S.C.V.S., a qualified veterinar/ surgeon, who holds a national diploim for agriculture of Great Britain, ai/l is at present with the New Zeala/d

Agricultural Department as officer/n--charge of animal husbandry, Bot:iiy

an/ field husb ndry, Mr J- Yeates, MFc., Phd., who since his return from Cambridge last year, has been engaged b/ ithe DepaiGment of Scientific and l/dustrial Re-earch to investigate the Iroeding of lax. Agricultural eco/omics and hook keeping, Mi' D. O. Williams, M. L, F.E.S., at present lecturer in ee- nomics at Victoria University. Ag icultural bacteriology, Mr |R. Waters, who has been engaged for the past fourteen years on biological research in .the Department of Agriculture, an/l during the last four years officer-in-chirge of the biological laboratory of the Fields Division. Nutri-

tion of farm animals, Dr S. A. Dell, M.A., Phd., demonstrator in agricultural psysiology at St. Catherine’s College, Camoridge, England.