PERSONAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18516, 29 March 1922, Page 6

PERSONAL.

The Hon. E. P. Lee, Minister of Justice, who was accompanied by Mr C. E. Matthews,, Controller-general of Prisons, passed through Dunedin yesterday afternoon on his way to Invercargill The Rev. John Dawson arrived by the express train from the north last night. Mr R. H. Simons, station master at Dunedin, has resumed duty after his visit to the north. Mr H. A. Beauchamp, general manager of Kodak (Australasia), Limited, is at present on a visit to Dunedin. Mr A. F. Roberts, of Wellington, arrived in Dunedin by the express train from the north yesterday afternoon, A London Press Association cable message announces the death of Dr Walter Perry, formerly of Timaru. Mr H. Salmon, of Sydney, who was manager of the Bank of New South Wales in Dunedin for several years, was a passenger for the north yesterday morning after a visit of some weeks to this city. Dr F. C. Hutchison returned north from Dunedin yesterday morning, and will leave for the Old Country in a few weeks’ time. Dr A. Gilray, house surgeon at Napier Hospital, who has been spending a holiday in Otago, was a passenger for the north by the express train yesterday. Mr Will Appleton, of the Charles Heines Advertising Agency, arrived in Dunedin by the express from the north yesterday. Messrs Ewen Cameron, (T. Glendining, Chas. Gray, W. L. Wood, and A. S. Cookson left for Christchurch by the express yeetesday. Mr S. E D. Neill, Consular agent for France, will return to Dunedin this week after an absence of 12 months in tho Old Country. An Auckland Press Association message announces the death of Mr Frederick James Burgess, an ex-stipendiary magistrate. A London Press Association cable message announces the death of Father Hopkins, the “Sailors’ Apostle,” who was prominently identified, with the Sailors and Firemen’s Union. At a meeting of the Green Island. Borough Council last night Mr L. Borrow, of Dunedin, was appointed conductor of the Green Island Municipal Band. Mr W. J. Healehurst, late of the Sydney Sun, is at present on a visit to Dunedin. Mr Heslehurst is associated with the New Zealand Shipping Gazette, a new commercial paper recently Established in Christchurch. A letter of condolence and sympathy has been sent to the family of the late Mayor of Port Chalmers (Mr J. M. Stevenson) by the executive of the Dunedin Manufacturers’ Association, of which Mr Stevenson was a member Among tho passengers by the s.s. Paloona for Australia was Mr J. E. Palmor, well known in Otago for many years. Mr Palmer loft here en route for the Northern Territory of Australia. Mr T, H. Davey, of Christchurch, , returned north by the express yesterday after a short visit in connection with his business as a stipendiary trotting steward. Represo itations have been made to Mr J. P. Brandon, Mayor of Otaki, and formerly of Masterton, to allow himself to be nominated as a candidate for the Otaki seat at the general election. Cr Taverner (chairman of the Finance Committee of the City Council) is at present spending a holiday in the Lakes District, where he is recuperating after a recent illness. He expects to return to town early next week. Mr George Jobbems, M.A., who has been science master at the Gore High School during the past 15 months, has accepted a position at the Christchurch Teachers’ I raining College as science lecturer. Mr Jobberns will probably take up his new duties about June 1. . , Mr H. Beauchamp is leaving for England next month, and will not seek re-election as chairman of the Bank of New Zealand, a position he has held since 1907, which is a longer term than any other chairman (says a Wellington Press Association message). He will remain a director for another two Our London correspondent report® that Lieutenant-general Sir A. J. Godley, who has latterly been Militarv Secretary to tho Secretary of State for War, has been appointed General Officer Commanding-m-Chiof, British Army on the Rhine. It is practically settled (writes our London correspondent) that Miss Rosma Buohmann and Mr Maurice d’Oislcy will sail for New Zealand by the lonic on April 6. They are both looking forward with the keenest zest to a delightful visit and a pleasant concert tC> Mr A. W. 0. Davies left, by the Paloona on Monday to take part in tho Australasian Chess Championship Congress, which opens in Melbourne on Easter Monday. Mr Gunlop, who also purposes taking part in the tournament, intends leaving by an early steamer. , . Mr IT L. Tapley was elected president of*the Overseas Club at the annual meeting last night. In welcoming Mr Tapley, tho retiring president (Mr A. E. Usherwood) said that the club had no use for “figureheads’' in office l , hut wanted real live and energetic men. The president had no envious position to fill, and he had told the now president what was in store for him, but he felt certain that, the club had got a real live man in Mr Tapley.—(Applaus.c) Mr Tapley, in reply, said that it was a great pleasure to him that he was thus honoured. He only hoped that at the end of his term their confidence in him would not be misplaced. His reward would be a similar ovation to that which had been bestowed on Mr Usherwood on his retirement. Mr C. A. House, the editor of Poultry World, and a well-known poultry expert, was to leave England by the Osterly on February 18 for Australia and New Zealand. He had received an invitation from poultry societies in the commonwealth and the dominion,; to visit Australasia and to adjudicate at the leading shows. He will combine this work, however, with a campaign to create a demand for British poultry journals, for he maintains that America lias too great a hold of the dominions in this respect. Tho death look place on Sunday of Mr Allan Galt, of iuataura. The late Mr Galt was a native of Renfrewshire, having been born in 1845. He was apprenticed as a carpenter, and left the Old Country with his parents in 1861, arriving at Port Chalmers by the ship Lady Egidin, With his father he spent some years at Dunedin and Port Molyneux in the ironmongery and timber trade. In the late ’6o’s he purchased “Kyledale, ’ Tnturau, a property consisting of about SCO acres. During his long residence at Kyledale Mr Galt made a reputation as a breeder of Ayrshire cattle. He was a frequent exhibitor at district shows, and his stock was famous throughout Otago and Southland. Before appearing at (he Coliseum last week (writes our London correspondent on February 17) Miss Wish Wynne and her pianist, Mr B. C. J. Kitchen (Wanganui), had been touring for six months in the English provinces, in Scotland, and in Ireland, completing contracts of many years’ standing made by tho former, some of them ante-dating tho war. Next week they are going to Leicester, then they will return to the Coliseum, where Miss Wynne is a great favourite, and where her clever monologues are immensely enjoyed. During her two years’ tour of America. South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, and back to South Africa again, she was very much missed in V.ondon. Mr Kitchen is a very talented pianist. Music with him has triumphed over medicine. His studies in the latter profession were begun at Otago University after the war, and they were continued at Edinburgh university, but now he has taken again to the pianoforte and composing. One of his latest compositions, a waltz melody, is culled “Reflections.”