PERSONAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 245, 11 September 1930, Page 6

PERSONAL

Sir Alexander MacCormick, K.C. M.G., M.D., of Sydney, has been appointed a Director of the Bank of New South Wales to fill the vacancy on the board caused by the resignation of Mr Jas. Burns.

Mr Robert Bernays, associateeditor of the London News-Chronicle, was a through passenger by the Niagara for Sydney. He is going to India to investigate social and political affairs for his paper. At yesterday’s meeting of the Oroua County Council, the chairman (Cr. Campbell) extended a welcome to Cr. McElroy who for the past two months has been on a health recruiting trip to the Islands. The Professorial Board of Canterbury College decided yesterday to nominate two candidates —Richard John Seddon Bean and James Esmond Farrell —for Rhodes scholarships. Both are taking the law course. At a meeting of the Russell Street School Committee last evening, the chairman, Mr D. Morrison, welcomed Mr C. G. Perrin as a new member of the committee, the appointment having been made owing to Mr G. L. Homan, a former member, having left the district.

Prior to the commencement of business at to-day’s meeting of the Sluggish JRiver Board, the chairman (Mr F. J~ Foster) referred to the passing of the wife of Mr D. S. Coulter, a member of the board. Members stood in silence as a mark of respect to the late Mrs Coulter. The death occurred yesterday of Mr Alexander Bathgate, a very old resident of Otago and one of the oldest and best known members of the legal profession in Dunedin, aged 85. Deceased is survived by one son, two married daughters and one single daughter, Dr. Winifred Bathgate. The death occurred suddenly at Nelson on Tuesday of Mr Robert M. Irvine, farmer, of Wairoa Gorge. He was walking across a paddock on his l>roperty when he had a seizure, and expired. Mr Irvine, who was 58 years of age, was known throughout the Dominion as a rifle shot, and at Trentham until late rears he was a regular competitor. In 1904 he ran second for the Belt, and in 1906 Lieut. Irvine, as he then was, won the championship. Mr Irvine was twice selected to represent New Zealand at Bisley, and on one occasion was very close up for the King’s Prize. He was a member of the New Zealand team which won the Kolapore Cup at Bisley in 1905.

Mr W. T. Eyre, the Dannevirke manager of the De Luxe Talkies, controlled by Kemball Theatres, lias received advice that he has been transferred to Wellington, on promotion, having been appointed manager of the Paramount Theatre, in Courtenay Place. Mr Eyre, who takes over his new duties about October 1, lias been associated with the Dannevirke theatre for over eight years, with the exception of a break of a few months at Palmerston North. Mr W. R. Kemball, junr., at present in charge of the Paramount Theatre, Wellington, is entering the head office of Kemball Theatres, Ltd. in Dannevirke. Mr Eyre will be succeeded by Mr Harry Fry, for the past ten years on the staff of Messrs Barraud and Abraham Ltd., and who indirectly has been closely associated with the theatre for some time. Mr Fry takes over on September 22.

During the course of the week Mr Ross Meikle, manager of the Regent Theatre, Palmerston North, was met by the staffs of the respective theatres in the city and made the recipient of a number of presents as a mark of esteem and felicitation on the occasion of liis marriage to Miss A. Daivick. At the alaoe Theatre, Mr C. Baynes, as manager, presented Mr Meikle with an antique rose bowl oh behalf of the staff, while the manager of the De Luxe Theatre, Mr Chadwick, made the presentation of a morning tea set. In the absence of Mr F. Jackson, managing-director of Palmerston North Theatres, who is at present indisposed, a member of the Regent Theatre staff, Mr C. Brown, made Mr Meikle the gift of two beautiful chairs, while the Kosy Theatre staff, represented by. Mr L. Wilson, handed him an antique rose bowl. In each case the presentations were conupled with an expression of the goodwill existing between the manager and his colleagues in the four picture houses. Mr Meikle briefly returned thanks for the gifts in a suitable fashion.