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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18511, 23 March 1922, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr W. W. Bridgman, Green Island, has received intimation that he has passed the B.A. degree. . , , Private advice has been received that the Kev. F. H. and Mrs Wilson, New Zealand representatives of the Sudan Lnited Mission, reached their final destination at the Heiban mission station, Nuba Mountains Province, on , January 8. They are now associated with Mr and Mrs D. N. MacDiarmid in the work at Heiban. A London Press Association cable message States that Sir Ernest Rutherford, F.R.S., has been nominated for the presidency of the British Association for the Advancement of Science for 1922. __ Sir Ernest Rutherford, who is a New Zealander,'is Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics and Director of the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, iie has had a most distinguished career. In 1908 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry. Dr C. R. Burns, who recently passed the final medical examinations in Dunedin, nas been awarded the medical travelling scholarship for 1922 and the Batchelor Memorial Modal for gynecology. Dr Burns received his primary education at St, Mary’s School, Blenheim, and, after gaining a boar! scholarship, continued his studies at Mar,borough College, and later at Nelson College. Dr Burns has been appointed assistant to Dr Drennan. Professor of Pathology at the Otago University. Miss Maggie Hishon, of the Passport Office staff. Internal Affairs Department, Wellington, who is leaving the Governmcr. r service to reside at her home in Invercargill, was on Friday last tendered a farewell by her colleagues of the department and presented with a very handsome silver backed brush and mirror. Mr J. Hisloo, Under-secretary of the department, made the presentation, in the presence of a largo ga-thcring of th<? officers. Ho referred to Miss Hishon’s long service with the Government, for some years on the staff of former Prime Ministers, and latterly as a reeponsible officer of the passport section. The tact of Miss Hishon and other officers nad been largelv responsible for the general satisfaction ‘which the public appeared to have felt at the conduct of this section during a period of stress and difficulty. He washed her, on behalf of all present, a very hanpy time in her retirement to nnvate life: Cheers were given for the re cipienr. who is a daughter of Mr Mortimer Hfshon, late of Centre Bush, but now o* Invercargill.