PERSONALITIES

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 159, 8 July 1938, Page 4

PERSONALITIES

The Gazette announces the appointment of Mr. H. F. Ayson to be resident Commissioner at Rarotonga.—Press

Mr. J. F. Downey has been reappointed a member of the Board of Examiners under the Mining Act for three years, according to a Gazette announcement. — Press Association.

Mr. Arthur Tilly, a member of the management committee of the Auckland Rugby Union, will leave for Sydney by the Monterey to-day in order to tour with the All Blacks in Australia.

Tho Rt. Rev. F. A. Bennett, Bishop of Aotearoa, has left Hastings for Wellington to join the Wanganella foi* Sydney, where he will attend the Samuel Marsden centenary celebrations.

The university post-graduate scholarship in science has been awarded to Mr. S. N. Slater, M.Sc., of the University of Otago, who proposes to undertake research in organic chemistry at Oxford.

The Hon. Mr Justice Johnston, who is presiding at the Court of Review in Palmerston North at the present tinio will, in all probability, be taking the Supreme Court session which opens m Palmerston North on July 18.

Sympathy with Mr H. J. Lancaster, a member of tho Manawatu-Oroua River Board, who is at present in hospital, was voiced by the board yesterday, when it was decided to write expressing regret at his illness and hoping that he would be speedily restored to health.

Mr. L. T. Burrows, formerly a district commissioner in the Bengal Civil Service, will arrive at Auckland by the Aorangi on Monday. Ho will be entertained at a luncheon by the Auckland Chamber of Commerce on the following

Mr. J. I. Craig, economic adviser to tlio Ministry of Finance, Egypt, who visited New Zealand some years ago, will arrive in Auckland on July 20. It is expected that he will speak at a coinplimentary luncheon to be given by the Auckland Chamber of Commerce on July 21.

Before Mr. R. M. McKenzie left Palmerston North on Wednesday to join the All Black Rugby football team to tour Australia he was met by the management of the Kia Toa Club and the senior team and made the recipient of a travelling clock. Good wishes for a successful trip were also expressed.

Both the New Zealand University sole seloctor, Air T. G. Hislop, and the North Island selector Mr J. Parker, the former All Black, will be in Palmerston North for tho Rugby football match ou Wednesday between Massey Agricultural College and Auckland University College. They will be accompanied by Mr C. M. Turner, secretary of the New Zealand Rugby Football Council. Tho party will travel from Wellington by aeroplane.

The Royal Commissioners for tho Exhibition of ISSI have awarded a science research scholarship for the coming two years to Air. E. F. Daly, M!.Se., of Canterbury University College, according to a report received from Dr. A. J. Harrop, the University of New Zealand agent in England. Mr. Daly, as a student, has shown outstanding ability in dealing with experimental work in physico-chemistry, and proposes to continue this work in England.

Dr. Walter Horton, professor of dogmatic theology in Oberlin Graduate School of Theology, Ohio, United States, will arrive r.t Auckland by the Monterey from San Francisco. With Dr. H. P. Van Dusen. of Union Theological Seminary, New York, he is travelling under the auspices of the World Student Christian Federation, and he will spend about, a month in New Zealand, returning to Auckland for live days at the end of this month. From July 13 to 15 Professor Horton will take the leading part in a theological conference in Christchurch.

The silver medal of the Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai (Japanese Cultural Society), Tokio, Japan, has been awarded to Mr. W. Erie Rose, Waiweru School, Auckland, and formerly of Hayings. The award is for an essay on the subject, “Japan and Australia —Friendly Relations: How and Why They Should be Established,” and is the result of a competition organised by the Japanese department of the Melbourne University. Essays submitted were adjudicated by the Japanese Cultural Society, in Japan; and medals have been donated by Prince Konoye, the society’s president. The society’s gold medal has been won by Major J. R. Kirk, J.P., Wellington.