PERSONAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18032, 4 September 1920, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Mr C. B. Matthews, Inspector of Prisons for Now Zealand, was a passenger for Invercargill by tho through express yester<lay.

Mr W. I'. Coad. at present oliief postmaster at. Wostport, lias been appouited chief postmaster at Timaru. Mr T. 1). Burnett, M.P., is unwell, .nnd is by doctor's orders confined to his bed for a few days. Mr A. R. Coad, departmental inspector in the. Public Trust Office, has come to Dunedin to take charge uutil a. successor to Mr Hales is appointed. Mr A. M. Benzoni, Uio newly-appointed district railway engineer, is not expected in Dunedin for a week or two. Meanwhilo Mr J. M'Nair will carry on.

Tho death was recently reported from London of Mr Junies Bull, formerly a v/ellknown settler in tho town of Rangitikei, and after whom tho town of Bulls takes its name. Deceased was 89 years of age. Mr James llaigh, meat inspector at the Balclutha frce/.iiig works and abattoirs for the past two years, received definite word on Thursday (says the Free Press) of his transference to Onhir, Central Otago, to assume the position of stock inspector there. Mr D. U. Archer, a returned soldier, has joined tho Dunedin staff of the Customs Department as messenger, and Mr C. E. Gilbert, of the same department, has been promoted to assistant examining officer at Christchurch.

Mr Israel Cohen, Zionist delegate, will arrive in Dunedin on Wednesday night, when he will address the Jewish community. A public meeting is being arranged for Thursday night.

Mr G. \V. M'Douall, teller of the Osmaru branch of tho National Bank, has been transferred on promotion to the Auckland branch (says the Mail), and his duties will be undertaken by Mr A. O. Hugo, from Tnpanui, who has arrived in Oamaru. Mr J. 11. Kirk, of Gisbornc, was elccted for the fourth time at the recent election of a memlier to represent the North Ward of tho Hawke's Bay Education Board. His opponent on this occasion was Mr George Crawshaw, a former secretary of the board. Mr 0. 11. Black, of the local Deeds Office, has been promoted to the position of second assistant land registrar at Christchurch, and will proceed to his new duties next week.

Mr A. Y. Fraor, who has been 14 years in the Justice Department in Christchurch and Dunedin, and latterly in Auckland, has resigned his position, and been admitted a solicitor of the Supreme Court by Mr Justice Cooper. He has now joined Mr W. M. Neumegen in a, legal partnership in Auckland, taking the placo of Mr A. M. Mowlam, who lias been appointed to the magistracy, and has assumed duties in Otago. Mr W. H. Haggcr, Conciliation Commissioner, was a passenger for Christchurch by the second express yesterday. He will return to Dunedin on Saturday next, and will preside at tho council sittings in the hotel- workers' and hairdressers' disputes on the following Monday and Tuesday. The death is announced of Mrs J. H." Cottrell, whose husband was well known in the city many years ago as the proprietor of a miscellaneous store in George street called "The Little Dustpan." Mrs Cottrell reached the ripe age of 92, and passed away at the home of her daughter, .Mrs C. Halo, of Auckland, with whom she had long been living. Mr David M'Kee Wright, of Sydney, of tho Bulletin staff, has been awarded tho Rupert Brooke literary prize of 25 guijieas, which was instituted last year by the Old Collegians' Association of the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne, in commemoration of poaco. Mr Wright is of Irish birth, but has long resided in Australia, and previously in Now Zealand, where ho was a clergyman, filling the Presbyterian and Congregational pulpits. Lieutenant J. R. Stenhouse, R.N.R., who -xill be remembered here as having brought the Aurora back from the Antarctic, is now in London, having completed his war services in Northern Russia. His activities during the war resulted in his receiving the D.S.C.. tho D:S.O., and the 'Croix de Guerre. He was also four times mentioned in despatches, and, in addition, has received the 0.8. K. for his services in connection with the Sliackleton Expedition. Misa Elsie Johnston, M.A., who has been appointed to the position of senior English mistress at the Wellington Girls' School, has ht-.d a brilliant school and University career She taught in high schools in Africa, and England after leaving New Zealand. In > England, she gained the Cambridge ' diploma for education with honours and distinction, being placed first on the list. Miss Johnston is a former dux of tho Wellington Girls' College, and was for a short period on tho staff. Many Gore and Balclutha residents will regret to..learn, of the death of Mr llawiri Wood, pl<icl» afc''t.ho residence of his paroilts '(Mr I 'and Mrs G. VT; "Wood), Balclutha, on Tuesday last. Tlie late Mr Wood was a member of the teaching staff of the Gore School a few, years ago. He accepted the head mastership of the Athol School in January, .1918, and six months

later was appointed to a position in the \Villo>v bridge (tenth- Canterbury) School. He had been in indifferent health for some years, and passed away at the early age of 27 years Details of the degrees and honours conferred by Edinburgh University at its annual graduation ceremony on July 8, when Mr Rudyard Kipling received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, are of special interest in New Zealand Dr S. T Champtaloup, D.Sc., 'M.8., Ch:B., received his M.D.,"'and was highly commended for his thesis on " A Study of the Influenza Epidemic in New Zealand, 1918, epidemiology, administration, and' bacteriology, with a report of the pathology of 25 fatal cases." Dr Champtaloup also received the degree of D.Se. in the Department of Public Health for a thesis on " Tuberculosis in Children in New Zealand." At the same time- Dr T. F. Corkill, M.D., Gh.B., of "Wellington, received his M.D., with high commendation for a thesis entitled An analysis of cases of active eclampsia in the Royal Maternity Hospital, Edinburgh, 1880-1919, and a review of treatment." Two other New Zealanders to receive the degree cf M.D. were Dr Duncan Cook (thesis on "Clinical Heart Studies in Childhood and Youth") and Dr Claude Bartley Tudehope (thesis on K-e----infection in Syphilids"). Three candidates received the highest distinction of the gold medal for their theses; but the only two to attain the next distinction of "highly com mended were Dr Champaloup and Dr Corkill. The names of Messrs H. J. C. Durand and J A. Gillison. of New Zealand, appear among those gaining the M.8., Ch.B. Out of 100 candidates gaining tliia degree. 12 were granted it with distinction, and it is a noteworthy fact that five of these 12 were women.