PERSONAL

Grey River Argus, 14 February 1946, Page 4

PERSONAL

Miss B. K. McDougall, who has been on special leave, has resumed her duties at the Taylorville School.

Mrs. H. O. Baker, Waiau, is at present the guest of Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Dalton, Cowper Street

A Washington cable states that Mr. Winston Churchill has left by plane for Miami.

Mr. G. Ormandy, who recently returned from service overseas, has rejointed the staff of the Greymouth Technical High School.

Mrs. Whitty, Miss V. Whitty. and Mr. C. Smith of Dunedin, are at present the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. Harrington, Runanga.

Naval Airman J. A. McQueen wile has recently returned from overseas, and has been visiting friends on the West Coast, returned to Christchurch to-day

A New York cable records the death of Lady Grace Marguerite Drummond Hay, an aviatrix, aged 50. She was the only woman passenger on the Graf Zeppelin on iLe trans-Atlantic flight in 1928.

The death of Patricia O’Regan, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joiin o’ißegan, Cronadun, occurred at the Reefton Hospital yesterday morning as the result of burns received when she pulled a lighted candle on to herself on Tuesday evening.

Mr. Thomas J. Lawlor, of Woolahra, Sydney, who is making a holiday tour of New Zealand, and who is a brother of Mr. Pat Lawlor, the well known writer, of Wellington, airix-r-d from Nelson yesterday in Greymouth, on a visit to Mr. and Mrs. 1. M. Dennehy. Mr. Lawlor leaves today for Christchurch, en route for Invercargill, of y'hich cit Y’ 110 a native, but which he has not visited since 1913.

Evidence of goodwill and esteem with which Sir Cyril and Lady Newall are held by citizens ol_Auckland were apparent last night when a large number of citizens gathered in the Town Hall on the occasion of a civic farewell to Their Excellencies, whose term of office in New Zealand will shortly expire. During the evening His Excellency was presented with on illuminated address and a casket by the Mayor (Mr. J. A. C. Allum), and Her Excellency received a gift of two paintings by New Zealand artists from the Mayoress, on behalf of citizens and particularly of women of the city.—P.A.

A Sydney cable says: Professor James Williams, Dean of the Faculty of I,aw, has resigned from Sydney University, and will return to New Zealand. A member of the Senate said Dr. Williams resigned because of long-standing disagreements with Professor Julius Stone of the International Jurisprudence School in the Law Faculty. The main disagreement concerned methods of revising the law course. They were both appointed in November, 1944, after one of the biggest storms in university history, when the Chancellor and three other legal members of the Senate resigned as a protest against the filling of vacant chairs in wartime.