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Northern Advocate, 17 September 1934, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr W. H, Winsor has been elected president of the Canterbury Cricket Association in succession to Mr W. Simpson. Mr E. E. Luttrell has been elected honorary secretary for the 22nd year in succession.

The funeral of the late Mr R. Newj man was held at the Kamo Cemetery ! this morning. A large number of j people were present to pay last resi pects and there were about 60 cars in j the cortege. The service was conduc- | ted by the Rev. H. T. Steele. 1 Letters patent have been issued appointing the Solicitoi’-General, Mr H H. Cornish, a K.C. Mr Cornish succeeded Mr Justice Fair as SolicitorGeneral last May. He was formerly Professor of English and New Zealand Law at Victoria University College, Wellington. Mr Malcolm Miller, formerly of Christchurch and Lyttelton, has been appointed from a number of candidates to fill a vacancy for a bass singer in the choir of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London. Recently, Mr Miller came second in a final test for a three-years’ scholarship in the Royal Academy of Music. Mr J. M. A. Ilott, Rotary District Governor for New Zealand, who beI came seriously ill while attending the ! international convention at Detroit, is making a good recovery, according to advice received by the Interim Governor. Mr Alexander Roberts, and will return to - New Zealand by easy stages, arriving about the end of October. Congratulations are extended to Miss Jean Harvey who has just received word from London that she was successful in the Royal Sanitary Institute examination for sanitary inspectors held in New Zealand in December, 1933. Miss Harvey is a nurse who took her general training at the Whangarei Pubfic Hospital, her maternity training at that hospital’s annexe, her midwifery training at St. Helens, Christchurch, and her Plunket training at the Karitane-Harris Hos-) pital, Dunedin. She is at present | staff nursing under the Wanganui ( Hospital Board at the Jessie Hope Gibbons Maternity Ward. Miss Har-1 very is 24 years of age. and is the eldest daughter of Mrs G. A. Harvey, i Maungakaramea.