PERSONAL ITEMS

Hawera Star, Volume LII, 31 January 1933, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Canterbury College Board of Governors received the resignation of Professor T. G. R. Blunt holder oi the chair of modern languages yesterday, states a Press Association message. Professor Blunt has occupied the chair since 1901. Professor George Saintsbury, whose death at the age of 88 was reported in a London cable yesterday, was Professor of rhetoric and English literature at Edinburgh University from 1895 to 1915. He wrote many books, historical and critical, on literary subjects. He held honorary degrees of D. Litt. at Oxford and Durham and of LL.D. at Aberdeen and Edinburgh. A link with the early days of the Union 'S.S. Company was broken by the death recently at Glasgow of Mr David McCaig, who ca,me out as chief engineer of the :S.S. Rotomahana in 1879 and served subsequently in several other of the company’s vessels. He was later the 'superintending engineer at Sydney and during the South African war was on the Monowai when she was employed as a -transport. He obtained the first-class Board of Trade certificate in 1871 and was a member of tlie New Zealand Institute of Marine Engineers for 50 years. Two of his nephews are chief engineers respectively on the Monowai and. the Niagara.