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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16277, 9 January 1915, Page 11

PERSONAL

A Melbourne cablegram states that Mr Applcton has been re-elected president of the Australasian Steamship Owners Asso • Two'of the vacancies in the Clutha Presbytery have recently been filled by the settlement in the Clinton parish of the Rev. D S Mason on the 22nd ult., and by the ordination in the Owaka parish, on the 6th inst, of Mr J. C. Loan, recently licensed by the Dunedin Presbytery. .Both men enter on their work under the happiest auspices. The induction services and the welcome social wero in both cases very well attended. , . A Wellington Press Association message states that amongst the successful candidates at the recent State examination of nurses were the following from Dunedin HospitaJ: Edith Hav, Alice Dickens. Mary M'Ourcy, Martha Campbell, Annie Garry, Mary Gillespie, Mabel Ross, Janet Burbush, Jessie Douglas, Catherine Harrington, Annie Knowles, Jean Arnold, Ada Hore, R. 0. M'Kegg, and Lvdia Bazley. Dr Stanley Brown, who has been appointed medical superintendent at the Southland Hospital (says the limes) graduated at Dunedin in 1908, and spent two years as junior and senior house sur."•eon respectively at the Wellington Hospital. He later visited England, and was there for a period of four years, chiefly at the London and Middlesex Hospitals, taking the degrees of F.R.C.S. (England), and L.R.O.P. (London). After returning to New Zealand Dr Brown, who is 30 years of age, was for a short time in charge of t.he'Waiiganui' Hospital, prior to going to lnvorcargill. Chief Detectivo Tudor W. B. Boddam,. who has been stationed in New Plymouth for the last eight yeare, and has been transferred to Wellington, has had a long and distinguished career in connection with the police force (says the Taranaki Herald). Tn 1884 he joined the armed constabulary in the south, and was transferred from there to the permanent artillery, being drafted to the police force in 1889. After doing police duty for a year in Dunedin. ho was transferred to the mounted police, and his sphere of activities for some yeans was Dunedin and the southern goldficlds. Owing to the increase of population from overseas, plain clothes constables were appointed to the detective branch, and Mr Boddam -was one of them. After four years in this capacity he was appointed a detective, and two years ago ■was promoted to detective-sergeant, which position ho held until December 31. when he was apnointod chief detective at Wellington. Mr Bodham has always proved himself to be a most zealous and popular officer.