PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17941, 21 May 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL

A Wellington Press Association telegram states that the appointment is gazetted of Mr Percy Muter. F.1.A., London,, as Deputy Government Insurance Commissioner, as from May 10. The Mayor (Mr W. Begg) left Dunedin with the Roval train at an early hour this morning to join with the mayors of the other centres in attending a farewell banquet to be held on the Renown at Lyttelton at 8 o'clock to-night. The Rev. Tulloch Yuille has accepted the ! call from the Knox Church congregation. Dunedin. .Mr Yuille is now on his way . to Dunedin. The induction is fixed for May 31. The appointment of Mr Alexander F. Lowe as clerk of the Legislative Council and Clerk of Parliaments for the Dominion, vice the late Mr Leonard Stowe, C.M.G-.,, is gazetted. A Press Association message from Wellington states that private advice has been received of the death in Sydney of Mr William Holliday, who was for many years a partner in the firm of Robert Holliday and Co., booksellers, Wellington. The mystery of the disappearance, last October, of Dr Arthur Owen Evans, N.Z.M.C has been cleared up by the discovery of his body under a thicket in Epping Forest, about half a mile from the Royal Forest Hotel, Chingford. Dr Evans, who was senior house physician at the City of London Hospital Victoria Park, and a graduate of_ Otago University, left the hospital for his accustomed walk on, Sunday, October 26, and was never seen again alive. At an inquest held at Chingford (our London correspondent writes), evidence was given as to the finding of the body by some people walking in the forest, and Captain W. G. Borrie, N.Z.M.C, London, attended, but was unable to identify the remains with _ accuracy. Identity was, however, established by certain articles and the testimony of relatives living in London. As there wa# not sufficient evidence to show how deceased met his death, an open verdict was returned. At the beginning of the war Captain Evans held a commission in the R.A.M.C. and transferred to the N.Z.M.C. in 1917, at the age of 31. He took his discharge in the United Kingdom on June 28. 1919, and, in addition to his duties at the hospital, he was working for his M.D. degree, for which he expected to sit »t the time of his disappearance. Born at Stratford, Dr Evans is understood to havo left a wife and two children.