PERSONAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19010, 5 November 1923, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Mr T. Watson -was a passenger from Invercargill to Christchurch by the express on Saturday. Mr Glut ha N. Mackenzie, acompanied by -ars Mackenzie, left for the north by the express train on Saturday. Mr T. O’Connor was a passenger by the through express train from Invercargill to Christchurch on Saturday. Mr J. E. Thomson was a through passenger by the express from Invercargill to Christchurch on Saturday. Mr J, C. Smith, who is at present head master of the Benhar School, has been appointed to the position of first assistant at the Mosgiel School. Mr A. Mason, of Tapanui. returned to Dunedin last week after an absence of cigT7t_ months. With his wife, Mr Mason has had e most enjoyable tour through -ngland and Scotland. Mr Algernon Lindo, examiner in New Zealand for the Associated Board of the ‘toyal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music, will arrive in Dunedin to conduct the practical examinations in music on or about December 10. A London cable message reports that Commodore Albert Percy Addison, commander of the Australian -Navy, has been appointed a roa.r-a'dmiral. Admiral Addison served all through the Great War and was lent to the Australian, Government as a firstclass commodore of the fleet in 1922. Mr J. Stenhouse, who has-been a member of the staff of the local branch of the Commercial Bank of Australia for the last three and a-half years, will leave on transfer (o the Invercargill branch this morning. On Saturday the members of the staff assembled, and Mr S. Angel, the manager, presented Mr Stenhouse with a handbag as a token of the esteem and appreciation with which he has been held bv all during his association with the bankThe death occurred at Benhar on Saturday of Mr Peter M‘Skimming, aged 75 years, an old resident of that district. Mr M'Skimming arrived at Stirling by the ship Liesmahagow from Scotland 42 years ago, and was first employed ss a pipe-maker bv the late John Nelson. Shortly afterwards he and his son leased the works on a 3) years’ agreement and established a large business under the name of Peter M*Skimming and Son. buying out the concern completely on the expiration of the term. ±he deceased was an active worker for the prohibition cause, and also contributed large sums of money for charitable purposes. He leaves a widow, one son (Mr Peter M‘Skimming) and four daughters—Mrs Parker M‘Kin I ay, Mrs Andrew Hislop, Mrs Felling, and Mrs James Boyd. Colonel Daniel Burns, an old American politician, _ will arrive in Auckland from Sydney this week (says the Herald). He is now 79 years of age/ At one time’he was Secretary for the State of California, and was a personal friend of the late President larding. He was a member of the Republican Party, and entered politics at an "arly age, and was associated with public "hairs for 40 years. He retired 20 years ago. After 49 years in the service -of the State, 'Jr H. M Skeet’ Commissioner of Crown Lane., for the Auckland district, is retires- On Tuesday last a large gathering of members of the Lands and Survey and oiner departments assembled to bid farewell to Mr Skeet and to express their regret at hi s departure. Mr J. D. Thompson, chief draughtsman, presided, and, on behalf of the staff, expressed regret that they were parting with Mr Skeet. In making him a presentation of a cabinet gramophone, ne gift of the staff and friends, he expressed the hope that it would serve as a constant reminder of the many friends he had made durinjj his career. a parlour or not. The cramped crofter’s cottage does not produce rickets and tubers culosis, because his children live mostly isi the sun and air round their dwelling, but children, ‘ cabined, cribbed, confined ’ in the dark, sunless, and airless environment of our large towns are inviting both all the time. The most im T portant educational requirement of domestic hygiene and its highest fulfilment is the open window, night and day, summer and winter. . . . Modern civilisation is suffocating itself in the polluted atmosphere and darkness of our great industrial cities. The need of pure air and sunlight, of which there is plenty about, and to be had for nothing, was never so insistent as it is today. These great gifts of Nature were plentifully supplied to primitive man, and were his only sure defence against disease.’*