PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17324, 25 May 1918, Page 8

PERSONAL

i 1 HLs Honor Mr Justice Sim will proceed : to Invercargill on Monday morning to hold 3 circuit sittings on Tuesday. Ihe Hon. J. Barr, M.L.C., is payinu a 1 brief visit to Dunedin. > The Hon. J. A, Tole has been reapt pointed as a member of the Senate of the University of New Zealand, as represent tativo of affiliated institutions. Nurse Hazier, of Temuka, has been ap- • pointed matron of the Dunstan Hospital in succession to Nurse Anderson, who resigned. Dr C. L. Ned will having completed hie duties on the Medical Board (Otago) has returned to Christchurch. Mr David Leslie, formerly of Dunedin, but now of Ettrick, has been appointed a justice of the peace. The Professorial Board of Canterbury l 1 ct ?, d . Professors Chilton, Gabbatt. Higlit, Salrnond, and Wall, and the ( Professorial Board of the Auckland Univeri sitv College elected Professors Dettmann - n ' Johnson - Segar, and Maxwell Walker to represent their respective col- . leges on tho Board of Studies of tho Uni- ; vcrsity of New Zealand. At the invitation of the Rev S G Griffith (chairman of the Otago Methodist Circuit) and Mrs Griffith, the Methodist ministers and their wives met at Brown's f Tea-rooms last evening to bid good-bye to tho Rev. F. T. Read and family, who ' ~' oavG oy the express this morning for Wellington, where Mr Read will undertake i circuit worK. Speeches were made in > praise of the excellent work done b v tho . ? uce ' 34 <?. chaplain and also while he was in Dunedin. Mr Read made a suitable reply thanking the speakers for their kind, remarks, and giving an interesting account of tho effort ins war work had had upon bis own opinions and convictions. Mr and Mrs William Floming, of RomaImpa. have been selected from about 20 applicants for the position of manager and matron of the Old Peoples' Home now being erected by tho Presbyterian Church at North-East Valley. Both Mr and Mrs Floming have had almost 20 years' exI pcrieneo in tho Salvation Army. During i 'that time they held mn-st important appoinfi ments both in Australia and in Now Zea- ' For 15 years they have worked as ; home missionaries in New Zealand. Few s social workers _ can show such a lonn- and r successful period of servico under" such i varied conditions. It is expected that tho new hotno will bo ready for occupation in August. Tho death occurred in Wellington on • Friday of Mr John Walter Glennie. wcllr known in band oirelcs in New Zealand i The late Mr Glennie had suffered a long 01IL 088 a . s the result of a bicycle accident. Born in Nelson 52 years ago, ho attained [ notice as a cometist and band- ! master, having 'won the New Zealand cornet i championship on two occasions, and the championship of Australasia at Melbourne in 1857. Ho was fbrmorlv conductor of the Wafhi and Invercargill Municipal Bands for many years, and in contests gamed many successes. The late Mr Glennie was a solo comet player in the New Zealand Band ■ which totrred England and Wales in 1903, T and had been eoriot player, in tho Wancur nui Garrison. Wellington Garrison, and Invercargill bonds, and until recently was 1 polo eornetist for the Wellington Tra'mwavs " Brass Band.