PERSONAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16160, 24 August 1914, Page 2

PERSONAL.

■»• ** ——— At the Savoy Tea Rooms on Friday afternoon Mr A. J. Sullivan, district manager of the Australian Alliance Assurance Company, who is retiring to take up 6hecp-farmmg, was met by practically a full muster of his fellow fire, marine, and accident underwriters, and presented with a pair of suitable field-glasses and a handbag for Mrs Sullivan. Mr W. I. Bolam made the presentation, and in doing so referred in an appreciative manner to the valuable services Mr Sullivan had rendered to underwriting over a great many years, and to the personal good qualities of their guest, and concluded by wishing him good health and prosperity in his new undertaking. Several others endorsed the remarks and good wishes of the chairman. Mr Sullivan suitably responded.

Mr Arthur Vivian Spedding was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court by Mr Justice Stm on Friday last, prior to his departure with the Expeditionary Force. Miss L. F. Armstrong, secretary to the Dunedin Women's Patriotic Association, intends to leave shortly for England to volunteer, through the High Commissioner, for service as a nurse. Miss Armstrong is instructor in massage to the University of Otago. Lady Godley has sent Miss Armstrong a letter which will back up her protessional credentials.

An Auckland telegram states that Archdeacon Philip Walsh, late of Waimate, died on Saturday morning. He worked with Bishop Selwy.h in the very early days, and was well known throughout Canterbury.

The Rev. J. White, M.A., of St. James's Presbyterian Church, Waihi, died on Saturday, after a long illness. He was 58 years of ago.