PERSONAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19203, 20 June 1924, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr S.‘ Saunders, of Wellington, is visiting Dunedin. Ho will leave for the north tins morning. Mr J. U. L. Hewitt (chairman of the Railway Appeal Board), who has been on a visit to Dunedin, left by the express for tile north yesterday. Colonel Y'on rig, officer in command of the southern military district, who lias been on a visit to Dunedin, was a passenger for Christchurch by the express yesterday. Mr T. M. Wilford, M.P., Leader of tne Opposition, arrived in Dunedin on Wednesday night, and was the speaker yesterday at the weekly luncheon of tho Rotary Club.

Mr H. J. Middleton, chairman of directors of the South Island Dairy Association, and Mr G. A. Lamb, secretary of the association, loft by the express yesterday, cn route to Palmerston North, to attend a meeting of tho National Dairy Association. Mr W. F. James was a passenger by the express, on route to Wellington, yesterday, where he will join the Tahiti and proceed to California on a visit. Ho is due bade in the dominion in October.

An Auckland Press Association telegram slates that Mr Scoring H. Matthews died on Wednesday; aged 85 years. Ho was one of Aucklapd’s earliest pioneers, aua an ardent Baclisl Church worker.

Mr J. Waddell Smith, who has occupied tho position of head master of the High .Street School for over 50 years, will retire on June 30. At t a public meeting hold on May 14 it was decided to make , him a presentation in recognition of his services to the school and in the cause of education generally. Tho presentation will be made at a concert and dance to bo held in the Early Settlers’ Hall on Wednesday, July 2.

Mr Massey, tho Hon. W. D. Stewart, and Air 11. L. Tapley, Mayor of Dunedin, have accepted appointment as the three vice-patrons of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition. Sir George Fenwick, Air T. M. Wilford, the Alavors of Wellington and Christchurch, Sir Francis Bell, and the Hon. C. E. Statham have all accepted office as vice-presidents. Two vicepresidents remain to be appointed.

The esteem in which Mr J. Hanna was held in the city was shown by tho very large number who attended his funeral at tho Anderson’s Bay Cemetery yesterday afternoon, where the remains were interred by the Rev. W. R. Hutchison. Representatives were present from the Otago Boys and Girls’ High Schools, the Otago Education Board, the Y.M.C.A., and other bodies. 9Tie pupils of the Otago Boys’ High School and a number of old boys, a total of. about 509, were lined on cither side of the road in single file just above Arthur street, and stood at attention while the funeral passed. The pupils of the . Girls’ High School were also assembled on the green in front of the school as the cortege turned from Smith street into Tennyson street. Al the annual meeting of the Koslyn Bowling Club lastnight a motion of condolence was passed with the relatives of the deceased. The president said that Air Hanna had been an old and enthusiastic, member.